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Chapter 1: Reliability Engineering: Its Applications and Benefits

Table 1.1: Reasons for reliability engineering programs.
Table 1.2: How complexity affects the reliability of series equipment.
Table 1.3: The farm tractor - an actual example of increase in product complexity with time.
Table 1.4: How complexity affects system reliability.
Table 1.5: ATLAS guidance system reliability program total annual costs (million dollars) [9, p. 172].
Table 1.6: Cost benefits in the TACAN reliability program [13].
Table 1.7: Impact of reliability effort on return of investment for an electronic device employed in high-performance aircraft.
Table 1.8: Trade-off study considerations requiring reliability and maintainability inputs.
Table 1.9: Car subsystem reliabilities based on a target car reliability of 0.9986, as inputs to management decision to proceed with the full-scale production of a new model car.

Table 3.1a: Early failure causes.
Table 3.1b: Chance failure causes.
Table 3.1c: Wear-out failure causes.
Table 3.2: Average operation stress factors, K _op.
Table 3.3: Base failure rates of MIL-C-39003, CSR, fixed electrolytic (solid) tantalum capacitors.
Table 3.4: Tantalum electrolytic capacitors, MIL-HDBK-217E, 27 October 1986.
Table 3.4-1: Environmental mode factors.
Table 3.4-2: Series resistance, ? _SR factor.
Table 3.4-3: ? _CV,Capacitance factor.
Table 3.4-4: ? _Q,Quality factor.
Table 3.4-5: Environmental symbol and description
Table 3.5: Profiles for major systems of their user, failure rates, reliabilities, unreliabilities, useful life, and availability [12]. 'Reprinted by permission of IEEE Spectrum." 1981 IEEE.

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