Analysis of Reliability and Safety of System

Analysis of Reliability and Safety of
the System
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Team of Lecturers
Department of Electrical Engineering
Reliability Definitions
As the field of reliability engineering has evolved, several measures have been defined
to express useful parameters that specifically relate to successful operation of a device.
Based on that work, additional measures have been more recently defined that
specifically relate to safety engineering. These measures have been defined to give the
different kinds of information that engineers need to solve a number of different problems
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Reliability
Reliability is a measure of success. It is defined as the probability that a device will be

successful. That is, that it will satisfactorily perform its intended function when required
to do so if operated within its specified design limits.
The definition includes four important aspects of reliability.
 The device’s intended function must be known

 When the device is required to function must be established
 Satisfactory performance must be determined
 The specified design limits must be known

Contd...
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Reliability
 Mathematically, reliability R has a precise definition: “The probability that a device will
be successful during the operating time interval, t.” In terms of the random variable T.

Reliability equals the probability
that T, failure time, is greater than
t, operating time interval.
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Unreliability
 Unreliability, F(t), a measure of failure, is defined as “the probability that a device will
fail during the operating time interval, t.” In terms of the random variable T.

Unreliability equals the probability that failure time will be less than or equal to the operating time interval.
Since any device must be either successful of failed, F(t) is the one’s complement of R(t).
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Time to Failure
In reliability engineering, the primary random variable is T: Time to Failure or Failure

Time. Reliability engineers gather data about when things fail.
Mean Time to Failure (MTTF)

or average of failure time
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Availability
Availability is defined as “the probability that a device is successful (operational) at

any moment in time.” There is no operational time interval involved. If a device is
operational, It is avail?able. It does not matter whether it has failed in the past and has been
repaired or has been operating continuously without any failures.
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Unavailability
Unavailability, a measure of failure, is also used for repairable devices. It is defined as “the
probability that a device is not successful (is failed) at any moment in time.” Unavailability is
the one’s complement of availabil?ity; therefore,
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Probability of Failure
The probability of failure function can be mathematically described in terms of the random
variable T:
This can be interpreted as the probability that the failure time, T, will occur between
a point in time t and the next interval of operation, t+t, and is called the “probability
of failure function”.
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Probability of Failure
Example
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MTTF VS MTTR
MTTF is merely the mean or “expected” failure time. It is defined from the
statistical definition of expected or “mean” value.
MTTR is the “expected value” or mean of the random variable restore time (or time to
restore a failed device to full operation), not failure time. The definition includes the time
required to detect that a failure has occurred and to identify it as well as the time required to
make the repair.
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Failure Rate
Failure rate, often called “hazard rate” by reliability engineers, is a com?monly used
measure of reliability that gives the number of failures per unit time from a quantity of
components exposed to failure.
Note that the measure “failure rate” is most commonly attributed to a single component.
Although the term can be correctly applied to a module, unit, or even system where all
components are needed to operate
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Failure Rate
Example
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Decreasing Failure Rate
A decreasing failure rate is characteristic of a “fault removal process.” Consider a collection
of components in which a portion of the components have manufacturing defects.
The components with defects will

fail in short time (removed after the
test)
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References
Goble, W. M. (2010). Control Systems Safety Evaluation and Reliability (3th ed.). International
Society of Automation.
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Reliability is a measure of success. It is defined as the probability that a device will be

The definition includes four important aspects of reliability.

 The device’s intended function must be known

In reliability engineering, the primary random variable is T: Time to Failure or Failure

Mean Time to Failure (MTTF)

Availability is defined as “the probability that a device is successful (operational) at

The components with defects will

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