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Reliability

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Introduction to

Reliability

Week 8 – June 6, 2024


What is Reliability
As per Google

“Reliability is the quality of being able to


be trusted or believed because of working
or behaving well, or how well a machine,
piece of equipment, or system works”
Reliability Definition
 Generally defined as the ability of a product to
perform, as expected, over certain time.
 Formally defined as the probability that an item, a
product, piece of equipment, or system will perform
its intended function for a stated period of time
under specified operating conditions.
 In the simplest sense, reliability means how long an
item (such as a machine) will perform its intended
function is
Reliability without a breakdown.
performance over time, probability
that something will work when you want it to.
Maintenance and Reliability
The objective of maintenance and
reliability is to maintain the capability of
the system while controlling costs
 Maintenance is all activities involved in
keeping a system’s equipment in working
order
 Reliability is the probability that a
machine will function properly for a
specified time
Maintenance and Reliability
 Maintenance Tactics
 Implementing or improving preventive
maintenance
 Increasing repair capability or speed

 Tactics to improve Reliability


 Improving individual components
 Providing redundancy
Reliability Definition
The Reliability definition has four important elements:
 Probability - A value between 0 and 1, number of times that an
event occurs (success) divided by total number trials)
e.g. probability of 0.91 means that 91 of 100 items will still be working at
stated time under stated conditions
 Performance - Some criteria to define when and how product fails,
which also describes what is considered to be satisfactory system
operation
e.g. amount of beam collisions, etc
 Time - (system working until time (t), used to predict probability of
an item surviving without failure for a designated period of time)
 Operating conditions - conditions (environmental factors, humidity,
vibration, shock, temperature cycle, operational profile, etc. ) that
correspond to the stated product life.
Conflicts with real world.
There are “Real World” conflicts with this
definition that we need to keep in mind…
 Probability – Customers expect a probability of 1, “It Works”

 Intended Function – The product may be used in unintended


ways and still be expected to work

 Under Stated Conditions – The product may be operated


outside of the stated conditions and still be expected to work

 Prescribed Procedures – Customers may not have the


required tools or skill level and may not follow procedures and
still expect the product to work
Customers are looking for Quality over Time
Importance of Reliability
 Companies who control the Reliability of their
products can only survive in the business in future
as today's consumer is more “intelligent” and
product aware.
 Liability for unreliable products can be very high.
 Complexity of products is ever increasing and thus
challenge to Reliability Engineering is also
increasing.
 Products are being advertised by their Reliability
Ratings.
Quality, Reliability and Safety
 Reliability can be considered as ”Quality over time”.
Customers frequently use the terms ”quality” and
”reliability”. We need to understand what they expect.
 Measurement of reliability is related to failure rates,
number of failures, warranty cost etc. Thus, reliability is
experienced by the customers when they use the
product.
 Quality Level is measured in terms of defect levels
when the product is received as new.
 Quality and reliability both can have significant impact
on Safety.
Quality, Reliability and Safety
 Quality defects and failures both can adversely affect safety of
user, bystanders and equipment.
 Some quality defects can lead to unreliable and/or unsafe
product.
 Some examples of how unreliability can affect safety:
• Failure of automobile steering system, brake system, axles etc, can result in
serious accidents.
• Short circuit in electrical equipment can result in a shock or death.
• Failure of safety valve in a pressure cooker, leakage of regulator of an LPG
cylinder can result in an explosion.
• Poor reliability of a bridge can result in an accident and disaster

However, all failures are not safety issues and all safety issues are
not due to failures.
When Should Reliability Be
Applied?
“From the cradle to the grave.”
i.e. The entire life cycle of the product.
Importance of
Maintenance and Reliability

Failure has far reaching effects on a firm’s


 Operation
 Reputation
 Profitability
 Dissatisfied customers
 Idle employees
 Profits becoming losses
 Reduced value of investment in plant and
equipment
Reliability Engineering

Week 9 and 10 – June 11-20, 2024


Reliability Engineering

 Reliability Engineering is concerned with


analyzing failures and providing feedback to
design and production to prevent future
failures
Questions?
Thank You!

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