Since the invention of the integrated circuit, reliability has been defined by how long a chip continues to work. It either turned on and did what it was designed to do, or it didn’t. But that ...

Conditioned by recent marketing efforts, here’s what comes to mind when one hears the term reliability: physical assets, reliability engineering terms such as mean-time-between-failure, and ...

In order to set the stage for our readers we would like to define some basic terms used in this text. A system is any composite of hardware or software items that work together to perform a mission or ...

Maintenance is fundamentally about sound asset management, and should be regarded as a category of asset management. An important feature of any asset is its ability ...