Usage of Reliability

[gupta]

Reliability can be used only in Engineering applications. If it not so, where all it used.

[Pantelis]

Reliability attempts to understand and model “quality over time”. As such, one may also ask is quality just an engineering application. Now, in my opinion Reliability does apply to all products and processes. With regards to non-engineering application, one can get lost on semantics as to what engineering is -- and what it is not.
Just do give you some examples consider the following:
What if the product is a magazine subscription? One could call failures the fact that somebody cancelled their subscription. In this case the failure rate would be the rate at which one loses subscriptions (or subscription loss rate)?
One may also wish to apply reliability to a process improvement, such as reservation taking? Is this engineering?

Anyways, without getting too long winded, I’ll answer the question by saying that reliability can be (and has been) applied in many areas.

[Huyitr]

Hi. I'm one of the seniour Mechanical Engineering student in Middle East Technical University in Turkey. I have been studying reliability for just a few months. But I liked the field and I want to have more detailed infos.
On the other hand in Turkey we don't have enough fresh references regarding with this matter. I would appriciate any kind of helps related with my concern. Thanks a lot for your attention.

[Pantelis]

What exactly are you looking for?
Textbook refs?
Journals?

[huyitr]

Hi. For the time being I'm not so profesional in this topic. So I'd like to have some updated, introductory information. This could be journals or some test books. As well as these must be the ones that I can reach easily. Thanks alot for your attention.

[ruha]

Hi is anyone have any references regarded to mechanical eng. or examples that can be reached on line pages?

[Praveen]

I am a scientist in INDIA and working on reliability. I am in need of guidence regarding reliability assessment in nuclear field. If some body have something regarding that please mail me.thanks

[RS Support]

One source is the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission web site, http://www.nrc.gov

Search on reliability related terms.

As an example their Fault Tree Handbook can be found at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0492/index.html

[Pantelis]

To Huyitr.

There are is a wealth of information including several textbooks and references on line at http://www.weibull.com/

You may want to start with these and then see recomended references and folllow links from this site.

[huyitr]

To Pantelis.
Thanks alot for your all interest in my issue. I hope I may find you again for any kind of help.

[Andrew Rowland]

To Praveen,

I will assume that you are referring to power generation when you mention nuclear. With that assumption, I provide the additional resources for you to look into.

You may want to try the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) at www.epri.com. You'll need a subscription. The company you work for should become a member if not already a member. EPRI has alot of reliability-related information specific to the nuclear industry (mostly US and European).

The information is application related; that is, it is geared to the plant personnel tasked with keeping things running. However, you may find some useful info related to what is failing out there.

Another organization you should be familiar with is the Institute of Nuclear Power Operators (INPO). They maintain a database of failed components and other operating experience in the civilian nuclear industry. I will caution you, however, not to use the data other than qualitatively.

INPO is associated with the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO). This is another organization that your company should be familiar with and involved with.

If you could provide a more detailed description of what you are looing for, I might be able to direct you better. Please feel free to e-mail me directly at darowland@aep.com if you would like any further input.