Electronic Systems Effectiveness and Life Cycle Costing

ISBN-13: 9783642820168 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 732 str.

J. K. Skwirzynski

Opis

This volume contains the complete proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on various aspects of the reliability of electronic and other systems. The aim of the Insti~ute was to bring together specialists in this subject. An important outcome of this Conference, as many of the delegates have pointed out to me, was complementing theoretical concepts and practical applications in both software and hardware. The reader will find papers on the mathematical background, on reliability problems in establishments where system failure may be hazardous, on reliability assessment in mechanical systems, and also on life cycle cost models and spares allocation. The proceedings contain the texts of all the lectures delivered and also verbatim accounts of panel discussions on subjects chosen from a wide range of important issues. In this introduction I will give a short account of each contribution, stressing what I feel are the most interesting topics introduced by a lecturer or a panel member. To visualise better the extent and structure. of the Institute, I present a tree-like diagram showing the subjects which my co-directors and I would have wished to include in our deliberations (Figures 1 and 2). The names of our lecturers appear underlined under suitable headings. It can be seen that we have managed to cover most of the issues which seemed important to us. VI SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS _---~-I~--_- Performance Safety Reliability ~intenance ~istic Lethality Hazards Support S.N.R. JARDINE Max. Vel. etc.

Spis treści

I Mathematical Background and Techniques.- 1.1 System Reliability Analysis: Foundations.- 1.2 Complex System Modelling with Fault Trees and Stochastic Processes.- 1.3 Failure Mode, Effect and Criticality Analysis.- 1.4 Some Bayesian Approaches for Estimating the Failure Rate.- 1.5 Exponential Lifetime Model with Delayed Failure Detection.- 1.6 Point Processes and Renewal Theory: A Brief Survey.- Comments on Professor Cox’s Paper.- 1.7 Regression Analysis of Repairable Systems Reliability.- 1.8 The Martingale Theory of Point Processes and its Application to the Analysis of Failure-Time Data.- 1.9 Risk Theory, Queue Theory and Life Distributions.- II Reliability — II a Hardware.- 2.1 RADC Failure Rate Prediction Methodology — Today and Tomorrow.- 2.2 Reliability Models — Practical Constraints.- 2.3 Statistical Detection of the Underlying Failure Distributions when Individual Failure Times are Missing.- 2.4 PANEL DISCUSSION on Empirical Failure-Rate Prediction Models chaired and organized.- 2.5 On Methods for Reliability Growth Assessment During Development.- 2.6 Advanced Reliability Modeling of Fault-Tolerant Computer-Based Systems.- 2.7 NASA Approach to Space Shuttle Reliability.- 2.8 Satellite Reliability Estimation: Past and Present Procedures.- 2.9 Automatic Fault Diagnosis for Power Electronic Systems.- 2.10 Some Special Aspects of Mechanical Reliability.- Response to Paper on Some Special Aspects of Mechanical Reliability A.D.S.Carter.- RELIABILITY — II b Software.- 2.11 Software Reliability Models: Concepts, Classification, Comparisons, and Practice.- 2.12 Developing Electronic Systems with Certifiable Reliability.- 2.13 On the Quality of Software Reliability Prediction.- 2.14 PANEL DISCUSSION on Achieving the Reliability and Safety Relevant to Computer Systems.- 2.15 PANEL DISCUSSION on Software Versus Hardware Reliability and Maintainability.- III Life Cycle Costing and Spares Allocation.- 3.1 Life Cycle Cost Models.- 3.2 PANEL DISCUSSION on Risk and Uncertainty Aspects of Life Cycle Costing.- Including Papers by.- Life Cycle Cost Models and Associated Uncertainties.- An Application of Logistic Support Cost Estimation in a Contracting Environment.- Uncertainties of LCC Predictions.- Uncertainties in Monte Carlo Simulation of Life Cycle Costs.- The Treatment of Risk in Analysis: A Framework for Discussion.- 3.3 Decision Analysis and Life Cycle Costing.- 3.4 Component and System Replacement Decisions.- 3.5 Problems in Optimal Spare Provisioning.- IV Two Panel Discussions.- 1. PANEL DISCUSSION on Assessment of the Performance of Warranties.- 2. PANEL DISCUSSION on Design Audit Programs.- List of Lecturers and Delegates.