Author: Henry S. Blanks Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 374
Book Description
Details all the issues and applications of reliability engineering relevant to the use and purchase of equipment. Introduces reliability terminology for the non-specialist. Discusses product procurement based on life cycle cost, the total expenditure of ownership as opposed to merely acquisition, procurement dependability specifications, equipment inspection frequency, optimization of replacement, overhaul tactics and schedules. Explains how to collect, analyze and monitor field failure data in order to build up dependable reliability data banks for future use.
Author: Theodore R. Myers Publisher: ISBN: Category : Integrated circuits Languages : en Pages : 97
Book Description
Large Scale Integration (LSI) promises many advantages to the designer of state-of-the-art electronic systems in size, weight, and cost reduction while enhancing performance and reliability. However, successful transition to this new technology presents new challenges. Traditional quality assurance and reliability assessment practices designed around large volume part procurements must be re-examined. Most likely a much closer interface will be established between the vendor and user. The reliability and quality assurance staff is in a unique position to develop and lead this combined effort. Technical Monograph 70-2 develops an approach for a coincident reliability program and considers the reliability impact of processing and design decisions. Expected and observed failure modes and mechanisms, including packaging problems, are discussed. Guidelines are included for a quality assurance program covering process control, screening, and LSI testing. Finally, a method is outlined for predicting LSI component failure rates. (Author).
Author: John Oliver Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 61
Book Description
The purpose of this thesis is to report on the results of a study to determine: (1) the benefits of using reliability in the procurement of replenishment spares, (2) uses of reliability information to determine the necessity for special engineering efforts in reprocurement actions, and (3) some guides for use in obtaining the necessary reliability in replenishment spares. (Author).
Author: Annamaria La Chimia Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1509922458 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 392
Book Description
This edited collection fills a significant gap in the literature by gathering contributions from the most prominent academics and practitioners of aid and procurement. It explores the economic, political and legal relationship between procurement and aid effectiveness in developing countries, and takes stock of current debates in the field. More specifically, the contributions analyse the failures and successes of current initiatives to foster effectiveness and streamline the aid procurement process, and address current themes emerging in the literature related to development, procurement and aid success. A pivotal and timely publication, Public Procurement and Aid Effectiveness will be of interest to a varied and multicultural international audience and a wide range of actors working on aid effectiveness, development, procurement and good governance initiatives in both donor and beneficiary countries.
Author: Dennis Jean Allen Publisher: ISBN: Category : Management Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The existence of a goal conflict in the buyer/seller relationship is inherent under a profit motivated system where conventional procurement techniques are used. The buyer seeks maximum performance at minimum life cycle cost and the seller seeks to maximize profit which may translate to minimizing reliability improvement costs. Experience of military and commercial procurement activities with the use of Reliability Improvement Warranties (RIW's) has led to the conclusion that the RIW may be a valuable tool in bringing buyer/seller goals into agreement by transferring the management of costs to the seller. Background material on DoD and commercial warranty experience is used to form the framework for an evaluation criteria developed by ARINC Research Corporation to test the applicability of RIW to a particular acquisition.
Author: D. N. Prabhakar Murthy Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1848002718 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
As an overview of reliability performance and specification in new product development, Product Reliability is suitable for managers responsible for new product development. The methodology for making decisions relating to reliability performance and specification will be of use to engineers involved in product design and development. This book can be used as a text for graduate courses on design, manufacturing, new product development and operations management and in various engineering disciplines.
Author: J. de S. Coutinho Publisher: ISBN: Category : Acceptance test Languages : en Pages : 33
Book Description
The considerations and procedures which shape the contractual arrangements for the procurement of reliable aerospace systems are discussed. Such systems are usually procured from single sources of supply on a relatively rigid schedule, and they consist of high-cost, low-production, long-lead-time items. Furthermore, cost of maintenance over equipment lifetime may exceed the initial cost by a large factor; hence, logistics considerations also exert a strong influence. In these special circumstances, normal commercial procurement procedures are unsuitable for providing a customer with the protection inherent in the competitive market place, and he must resort to policing his supplier's activities, which at best is never a completely adequate procedure. The contract must provide for a program plan which establishes specific scheduled monitoring points during the development and fabrication stages, such as review of design requirements and environments, design arrangements, proof-of-design by analysis, qualification test plans and execution, and acceptance test procedures. In the execution of this plan the customer assumes the risk that a product which passes the qualification test will be satisfactory in service. The supplier assumes the risk that he can design and fabricate a product which will pass the qualification test. Qualification test results should therefore correlate both with analytical design methods and with data fed back from actual field operations. The proper design of qualification test procedures depends on an understanding of the basic causes of unreliability, such as our inability to predict correctly the actual operating environments, and the unit-to-unit variation in component resistance to failure. Our inability to specify correctly the environmental requirements is due in part to the inadequacy of available empirical data; to new and previously unknown environments encountered as the operating range is extended; and to the invention by the operators of new uses for the system. The considerations which enter into the design of qualification test spectra are discussed in detail, and some spectra in current use are analyzed. The unit-to-unit variation of components may be minimized by reliability control of the design of the manufacturing processes, and may be measured in a series of tests-to-failure. Although it is difficult to establish accept-reject criteria, an approach is described which is believed to have merit.
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