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- the quality of being fit for an intended purpose over a continued period of time
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- Understanding Test Quality-Concepts of Reliability and Validity
- Test reliability and validity are two technical properties of a test that indicate the quality and usefulness of the test. These are the two most important features of a test. This article provides a simplified explanation of these two complex ideas. These explanations will help you to understand reliability and...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- Reliability and Security: Twelve Essential Questions to Ask Online Employee Scheduling Providers About Reliability and Security
- Subscribing to an online employee scheduling application has many advantages over purchasing the application outright and installing it on your equipment. However, because your data is stored off-site and all access to the data occurs over the Internet, there are reliability and security concerns that must be addressed prior to...
- White papers 2003-02-16
- Improving the Reliability of Health Care
- Reliability principles are used successfully in industries such as manufacturing and air travel to help evaluate, calculate, and improve the overall reliability of complex systems. Reliability principles, used to design systems that compensate for the limits of human ability, can improve safety and the rate at which a system consistently...
- White papers 2005-02-10
- Reliability-Based Structural Safety Assessment Using Risk-Ranking Decision Analysis
- Information about present and anticipated bridge reliabilities can be used in conjunction with decision models to provide a rational decision-making tool for the assessment of bridges and other structural systems. The present paper presents a broad overview of reliability-based assessment methods and will then focus on decision-making applications using updated...
- White papers 2000-07-15
- Studies on Probability-Based Design for Residential Construction
- The focus of this study is on wood-frame (light-frame) residential structures built using nominal 2-by framing lumber, structural sheathing, and nail fasteners-materials most commonly used. This study attempts to quantify the "experience" of conventional residential construction in terms of modern concepts of reliability as used in the development of engineering...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Close the Information Gap on IC-Package Reliability
- This white paper provides answers to the challenges of increase reliability and functionality with lower cost for electronic devices as the surface-mount SMT, package options that can be loosely divided into two groups: ball-grid arrays BGAs and chip-scale packages CSPs. The paper also gives a review of the board-level reliability...
- White papers 2000-01-21
- A Systems Approach for Quality and Reliability of Chip Scale Package assembly
- This white paper document deals with factors that affect interconnect reliability of commercial-off-the -shell COTS chip scale package assemblies. The paper discusses about the preliminary thermal cycling results for test vehicles. The paper also concludes that the availability of meaningful assembly reliability test results is needed to accelerate implementation of...
- White papers 2000-04-14
- Report on the Reliability of New York's Electric Transmission and Distribution Systems
- The reliability study was overseen by an interagency study team. The interagency study team, through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority NYSERDA, selected General Electric Power Systems Energy Consulting competitively to provide consulting services. As the Legislature recognized in calling for this study, the reliability of the...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Distributed Generation Operational Reliability and Availability Database
- This report summarizes the results of the project, "Distributed Generation Market Transformation Tools: Distributed Generation Reliability and Availability Database." The increased deployment of Distributed Generation DG/Combined Heat and Power CHP has been identified as a means to enhance both individual customer reliability and electric transmission and distribution system reliability. The...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Mechanical Upgrades to Improve Centrifugal Compressor Operation and Reliability - TP072
- There are tens of thousands of centrifugal compressors currently operating with outdated technology, resulting in increased maintenance costs and reduced reliability. However, product upgrades can improve compressor operation and increase reliability and availability by incorporating the latest technology into existing rotating equipment. This paper reviews the latest technology available as...
- White papers 2004-07-27
- Resource, Reliability and Environmental Concerns of Aging Power Plant Operations and Retirements
- This staff white paper examines the reliability effects of the retirement of aging generating units in California, and the resource and environmental effects of continued reliance on these aging units. The white paper identifies factors that may affect an owner's decision on whether to retire a generating unit, and examined...
- White papers 2004-08-13
- Worcester Hots up it's Service with Inventory Optimisation
- The article describes about Pressure Vessels & Piping. Every year hundreds of thousands of homes are equipped with modern boilers. Typically gas powered, these new generation boilers provide both hot water and central heating as part of increasingly efficient 'on demand' systems that do away with hot water storage. Reliability...
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- ESD Phenomena and the Reliability for Microelectronics
- This white paper addresses the importance of ESD on Electronic Circuits. The objective is to present an insight into the present-day phenomena, an overview of its effects on electronic chips and systems, and a summary of the future issues and challenges facing ESD reliability as further advances in the semiconductor...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Different Between Reliability Testing And Durability Testing
- One definition of reliability is "the measure of unanticipated interruptions during customer use." The unanticipated interruptions typically arise from unexpected failures. During a reliability test, one important goal is to maximize the opportunities for observing unexpected failures, so that they can be fixed. The fewer the opportunities we have to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Reliability Modeling Of Electricity Transmission Systems
- For power industry systems, reliability is related to the ability of the system to provide an adequate supply of electrical energy. However, reliability related measures are fundamentally different to those used in traditional reliability practice. System reliability is related to the probability that a product/service will operate properly for a...
- White papers 2005-05-03
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- Asian automakers again top reliability survey
- DETROIT - Asian automakers are still building the most reliable cars and trucks, with eight of the top 10 brands from Japanese and Korean companies, according to an annual survey by Consumer Reports. But several models from Ford Motor Co. are now consistently scoring above Honda and Toyota, the perennial...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Consumer Reports Gives Nod to Ford Reliability
- Consumer Reports has a reputation for favoring foreign cars and trucks, and for that reason it may have been something of a relief when its 2009 Annual Car Reliability Survey had such good things to say about at least one American carmakerâ€"Ford. The latest survey found 90...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Economic allocation of test times for subsystem-level reliability growth testing
- 1. Introduction Integrated reliability testing programs for electronic systems development generally include reliability growth testing, reliability qualification testing and environmental stress screening ESS. Reliability growth testing is particularly important when system reliability is a critical concern but the system design is new and unproven. In the past, the development...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- Comparison of software reliability assessment methods for open source software and reliability assessment tool
- Abstract: We propose software reliability assessment methods for concurrent distributed system development by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Also, we make a comparison between the inflection S-shaped software reliability growth model and the other models based on a nonhomogeneous Poisson process applied to reliability assessment of the entire system composed...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Consumer Reports Annual Cars Survey Ranks Lexus First in Predicted Reliability for 2006 Models
- YONKERS, N.Y., March 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Consumer Reports' largest Annual Car Reliability Survey ranks Lexus in first place for predicted reliability of its 2006 models among 36 nameplates from domestic, European, and Asian automakers. Lexus was in seconYONKERS, N.Y., March 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Consumer Reports' largest Annual Car...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
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