Reliability Growth

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Reliability Growth

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“Reliability growth is the improvement in a product’s reliability that results from the elimination or mitigation of the root causes of an item’s identified failure modes.” Stated another way: “Reliability growth is the improvement in a reliability parameter over a period of time due to changes in the product design or in operation, maintenance and manufacturing practices caused by the successful identification and correction of deficiencies in an item’s design or manufacture.”

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Product Description

The series name has a double meaning:
(1) the spelling of the name r-e-l-e-a-s-e indicates that the series is intended to “release“ the non-expert down the path to reliable products and
(2) the complementary terms “REL” with “ease”, implying the series goal of “reliability made easy.”

Of course, reliability success is seldom easy, requiring expertise and tailoring with tradeoffs addressing life-cycle costs and other issues, but we hope that the series will help those not familiar with reliability practices understand the basics.

While it is unlikely that the reader will become an instant expert in reliability by reading the RELease guides, it is likely that he/she will gain a better appreciation of the basic tools that lead to designing and building reliability into products and systems. The number of pages in each guide is intentionally limited to address only the basics, with comprehensive authoritative references listed for those wanting to know more. The initial set of guides will be continuously expanded in the future. Please let us know how the series can be improved to meet your needs in introducing reliability to the non-expert, or suggest other topics you would like to see developed.

Additional information

File Type:

PDF
Author:

Richard Wisniewski
ISBN:

978-1-933904-52-8
Pages:

34
Publication Date:

July 2013

Table of Contents

1. What is Reliability Growth 2
  1.1. Cost-Benefit Tradeoff 3
2. Reliability Growth Terminology 5
3. The Process 8
  3.1. Applicable Methods 8
    3.1.1. Reliability Growth During Design 9
    3.1.2. Reliability Growth During Testing 12
  3.2. Required Inputs 13
  3.3. Process Flow 13
  3.4. Applications and Tailoring 15
4. The Details 15
  4.1. Design 16
    4.1.1. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis/Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
(FMEA/FMECA)		 16
    4.1.2. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) 17
    4.1.3. Reliability Physics (Physics of Failure (PoF)) 17
    4.1.4. Design of Experiments (DOE) 18
    4.1.5. Accelerated Stress Testing (AST)/Highly Accelerated Stress Testing (HAST) 19
  4.2. Test 20
    4.2.1. Test-Fix-Test 21
    4.2.2. Test-Find-Test 22
    4.2.3. Test-Fix-Test with Delayed Fixes (including Test-Fix-Find-Test) 23
    4.2.4. Combined Influence of Factors on Reliability Growth Curve Shapes 24
    4.2.5. Reliability Growth Models (Duane and Crow/AMSAA) 25
5. Examples 27
  5.1. FMEA/FMECA Example 27
  5.2. Duane Planning Model Examples 28
    5.2.1. Example 1: How to Determine the Idealized Growth Curve 28
    5.2.2. Example 2: How to Determine the MTBF for a Test Phase 29
    5.2.3. Example 3: How to Determine How Much Test Time is Needed 31
  5.3. Crow/AMSAA Model Example 32
6. For More Information 34

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