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Acknowledgments |
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Part I Reliability Engineering |
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1 Systems Engineering and the Sustainability Disciplines |
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1.1.1 Systems Engineers Create and Monitor Requirements |
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1.1.2 Good Requirements are a Key to Success |
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1.1.3 Sustainability Requirements are Important Too |
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1.1.4 Focused Action is Needed to Achieve the Goals Expressed by the Requirements |
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1.3.1 Reliability Engineering |
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1.3.2 Maintainability Engineering |
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1.3.3 Supportability Engineering |
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1.4.1 Who Should Read This Book? |
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1.6 Key Success Factors for Systems Engineers in Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability Engineering |
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1.6.1 Customer-Supplier Relationships |
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1.6.2 Language and Clarity of Communication |
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1.6.3 Statistical Thinking |
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1.7 Organizing a Course Using this Book |
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2 Reliability Requirements |
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2.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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2.2 Reliability for Systems Engineers |
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2.2.1 "Reliability" in Conversation |
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2.2.2 "Reliability" in Engineering |
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2.2.3 Foundational Concepts |
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2.2.4 Reliability Concepts for Systems Engineers |
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2.2.5 Definition of Reliability |
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2.2.6 Failure Modes, Failure Mechanisms, and Failure Causes |
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2.2.7 The Stress-Strength Model |
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2.2.8 The Competing Risk Model |
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2.3 Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability are Mutually Reinforcing |
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2.3.2 Mutual Reinforcement |
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2.4 The Structure of Reliability Requirements |
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2.4.1 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria |
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2.4.2 Reliability Figures of Merit |
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2.4.3 Quantitative Reliability Requirements Frameworks |
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2.5 Examples of Reliability Requirements |
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2.5.1 Reliability Requirements for a Product |
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2.5.2 Reliability Requirements for a Flow Network |
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2.5.3 Reliability Requirements for a Standing Service |
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2.5.4 Reliability Requirements for an On-Demand Service |
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2.6 Interpretation of Reliability Requirements |
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2.6.3 Interpretation of Requirements Based on Effectiveness Criteria |
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2.6.4 Interpretation of Requirements Based on Figures of Merit |
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2.6.5 Models and Predictions |
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2.6.6 What Happens When a Requirement is Not Met? |
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2.7 Some Additional Figures of Merit |
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2.7.1 Cumulative Distribution Function |
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2.7.2 Measures of Central Tendency |
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2.7.3 Measures of Dispersion |
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2.7.5 The Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals |
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2.8 Current Best Practices in Developing Reliability Requirements |
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2.8.1 Determination of Failure Modes |
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2.8.2 Determination of Customer Needs and Desires for Reliability and Economic Balance with Reliability Requirements |
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2.8.3 Review All Reliability Requirements for Completeness |
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2.8.4 Allocation of System Reliability Requirements to System Components |
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2.8.5 Document Reliability Requirements |
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3 Reliability Modeling for Systems Engineers |
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3.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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3.3 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit for Nonmaintained Units |
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3.3.2 The Life Distribution and the Survivor Function |
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3.3.3 Other Quantities Related to the Life Distribution and Survivor Function |
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3.3.4 Some Commonly Used Life Distributions |
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3.3.5 Quantitative Incorporation of Environmental Stresses |
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3.3.6 Quantitative Incorporation of Manufacturing Process Quality |
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3.3.7 Operational Time and Calendar Time |
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3.4 Ensembles of Nonmaintained Components |
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3.4.1 System Functional Decomposition |
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3.4.2 Some Examples of System and Service Functional Decompositions |
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3.4.3 Reliability Block Diagram |
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3.4.4 Ensembles of Single-Point-of-Failure Units: Series Systems |
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3.4.5 Ensembles Containing Redundant Elements: Parallel Systems |
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3.4.6 Structure Functions |
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3.4.7 Path Set and Cut Set Methods |
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3.4.8 Reliability Importance |
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3.4.9 Non-Service-Affecting Parts |
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3.5 Reliability Modeling Best Practices for Systems Engineers |
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4 Reliability Modeling for Systems Engineers |
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4.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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153 | (1) |
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4.3 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit for Maintained Systems |
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154 | (8) |
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4.3.2 System Reliability Process |
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4.3.3 Reliability Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit Connected with the System Reliability Process |
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4.3.4 When is a Maintainable System Not a Maintained System? |
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4.4 Maintained System Reliability Models |
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4.4.1 Types of Repair and Service Restoration Models |
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162 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Systems with Renewal Repair |
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163 | (3) |
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4.4.3 Systems with Revival Repair |
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166 | (5) |
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4.4.4 More-General Repair Models |
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4.4.5 The Separate Maintenance Model |
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4.4.6 Superpositions of Point Processes and Systems with Many Single Points of Failure |
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4.4.7 State Diagram Reliability Models |
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4.5 Stability of Reliability Models |
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4.7 Reliability Modeling Best Practices for Systems Engineers |
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4.7.1 Develop and Use a Reliability Model |
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4.7.2 Develop the Reliability-Profitability Curve |
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4.7.3 Budget for Reliability |
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4.7.4 Design for Reliability |
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5 Comparing Predicted and Realized Reliability with Requirements |
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5.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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190 | (1) |
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5.3 Effectiveness Criteria, Figures of Merit, Metrics, and Predictions |
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5.3.3 Reliability Predictions |
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5.4 Statistical Comparison Overview |
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5.4.1 Quality of Knowledge |
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5.4.3 Count Data from Aggregates of Systems |
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5.4.4 Environmental Conditions |
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5.5 Statistical Comparison Techniques |
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5.5.1 Duration Requirements |
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208 | (4) |
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5.6 Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System |
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5.7.1 Component Life Testing |
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214 | (1) |
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5.7.2 Reliability Growth Testing |
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5.7.3 Software Reliability Modeling |
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5.8 Best Practices in Reliability Requirements Comparisons |
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216 | (1) |
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5.8.1 Track Achievement of Reliability Requirements |
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6.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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219 | (1) |
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6.3 Techniques for Reliability Assessment |
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221 | (3) |
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6.3.1 Quantitative Reliability Modeling |
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6.3.2 Reliability Testing |
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223 | (1) |
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6.4 The Design for Reliability Process |
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6.4.1 Information Sources |
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6.5 Hardware Design for Reliability |
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6.5.1 Printed Wiring Boards |
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6.5.2 Design for Reliability in Complex Systems |
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6.6 Qualitative Design for Reliability Techniques |
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6.6.1 Fault Tree Analysis |
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6.6.2 Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis |
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6.7 Design for Reliability for Software Products |
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6.9 Design for Reliability Best Practices for Systems Engineers |
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6.9.1 Reliability Requirements |
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6.9.2 Reliability Assessment |
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6.9.3 Reliability Testing |
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7 Reliability Engineering for High-Consequence Systems |
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7.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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7.2 Definition and Examples of High-Consequence Systems |
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7.2.1 What is a High-Consequence System? |
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7.2.2 Examples of High-Consequence Systems |
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7.3 Reliability Requirements for High-Consequence Systems |
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265 | (2) |
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7.4 Strategies for Meeting Reliability Requirements in High-Consequence Systems |
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267 | (11) |
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7.4.3 Component Qualification and Certification |
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270 | (7) |
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7.5 Current Best Practices in Reliability Engineering for High-Consequence Systems |
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8 Reliability Engineering for Services |
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282 | (21) |
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8.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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282 | (1) |
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8.3 Service Functional Decomposition |
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8.4 Service Failure Modes and Failure Mechanisms |
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286 | (8) |
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8.4.2 Service Failure Modes |
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288 | (2) |
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8.4.3 Service Failure Mechanisms |
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290 | (4) |
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8.5 Service Reliability Requirements |
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8.5.1 Examples of Service Reliability Requirements |
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294 | (1) |
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8.5.2 Interpretation of Service Reliability Requirements |
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295 | (1) |
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8.6 Service-Level Agreements |
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296 | (1) |
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8.7 SDI Reliability Requirements |
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8.8 Design for Reliability Techniques for Services |
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8.8.1 Service Fault Tree Analysis |
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8.9 Current Best Practices in Service Reliability Engineering |
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8.9.1 Set Reliability Requirements for the Service |
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299 | (1) |
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8.9.2 Determine Infrastructure Reliability Requirements from Service Reliability Requirements |
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300 | (1) |
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8.9.3 Monitor Achievement of Service Reliability Requirements |
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9 Reliability Engineering for the Software Component of Systems and Services |
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9.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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303 | (1) |
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9.3 Reliability Requirements for the Software Component of Systems and Services |
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305 | (5) |
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9.3.1 Allocation of System Reliability Requirements to the Software Component |
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9.3.2 Reliability Requirements for Security and Other Novel Areas |
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308 | (1) |
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9.3.3 Operational Time and Calendar Time |
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309 | (1) |
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9.4 Reliability Modeling for Software |
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9.4.1 Reliability Growth Modeling for the Sequence of Failure Times |
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9.5 Software Failure Modes and Failure Mechanisms |
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9.5.1 Software Failure Modes |
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9.5.2 Software Failure Mechanisms |
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9.6 Design for Reliability in Software |
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315 | (3) |
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9.6.1 Software Fault Tree Analysis |
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316 | (1) |
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9.6.3 Some Software Failure Prevention Strategies |
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317 | (1) |
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9.7 Current Best Practices in Reliability Engineering for Software |
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318 | (1) |
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9.7.1 Follow Good Software Engineering Practices |
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318 | (1) |
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9.7.2 Conduct Design Reviews Focused on Reliability |
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318 | (1) |
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9.7.3 Reuse Known Good Software |
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319 | (1) |
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9.7.4 Encourage a Prevention Mindset |
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Part II Maintainability Engineering |
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10 Maintainability Requirements |
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325 | (31) |
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10.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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325 | (1) |
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10.2 Maintainability for Systems Engineers |
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326 | (11) |
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10.2.2 System Maintenance Concept |
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327 | (2) |
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10.2.3 Use of Maintainability Effectiveness Criteria and Requirements |
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329 | (2) |
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10.2.4 Use of Preventive Maintenance |
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331 | (1) |
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10.2.5 Levels of Maintenance |
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331 | (1) |
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10.2.6 Organizational Responsibilities |
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332 | (1) |
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10.2.8 Maintenance Environment |
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333 | (1) |
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10.2.10 Preventive Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance |
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334 | (1) |
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10.2.11 Maintainability for Services |
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335 | (2) |
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10.3 Maintainability Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit |
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337 | (3) |
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10.3.1 Products and Systems |
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337 | (3) |
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10.4 Examples of Maintainability Requirements |
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340 | (2) |
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10.5 Maintainability Modeling |
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342 | (2) |
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10.5.1 Duration and Labor-Hour Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit |
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342 | (2) |
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10.5.2 Count Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit |
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344 | (1) |
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10.6 Interpreting and Verifying Maintainability Requirements |
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344 | (5) |
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10.6.1 Duration Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit |
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344 | (2) |
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10.6.2 Count Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit |
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346 | (2) |
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10.6.3 Cost and Labor-Hour Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit |
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348 | (1) |
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10.6.4 Three Availability Figures of Merit |
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348 | (1) |
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10.7 Maintainability Engineering for High-Consequence Systems |
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349 | (2) |
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10.8 Current Best Practices in Maintainability Requirements Development |
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351 | (2) |
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10.8.1 Determine Customer Needs for Maintainability |
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351 | (1) |
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10.8.2 Balance Maintenance with Economics |
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351 | (1) |
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10.8.3 Use Quantitative Maintainability Modeling to Ensure Support for Maintainability Requirements |
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352 | (1) |
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10.8.4 Manage Maintainability by Fact |
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352 | (1) |
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11 Design for Maintainability |
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356 | (23) |
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11.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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356 | (1) |
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11.2 System or Service Maintenance Concept |
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356 | (2) |
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11.3 Maintainability Assessment |
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358 | (4) |
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11.3.1 Maintenance Functional Decomposition and Maintainability Block Diagram |
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358 | (2) |
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11.3.2 Quantitative Maintainability Modeling |
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360 | (2) |
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11.4 Design for Maintainability Techniques |
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362 | (10) |
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11.4.1 System Maintenance Concept |
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362 | (1) |
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11.4.2 Level of Repair Analysis |
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363 | (6) |
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11.4.3 Preventive Maintenance |
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369 | (1) |
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11.4.4 Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) |
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369 | (3) |
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11.5 Current Best Practices in Design for Maintainability |
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372 | (2) |
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11.5.1 Make a Deliberate Maintainability Plan |
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372 | (1) |
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11.5.2 Determine Which Design for Maintainability Techniques to Use |
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372 | (1) |
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11.5.4 Organizational Factors |
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373 | (1) |
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Part III Supportability Engineering |
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379 | (17) |
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12.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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379 | (1) |
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12.2 Supportability for Systems Engineers |
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380 | (3) |
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12.2.1 Supportability as a System Property |
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380 | (2) |
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12.2.2 Factors Promoting Supportability |
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382 | (1) |
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12.2.3 Activities Included in Supportability Engineering |
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12.2.4 Measuring and Monitoring Supportability |
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383 | (1) |
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12.2.5 Developing and Interpreting Support Requirements |
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383 | (1) |
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12.3 System or Service Support Concept |
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383 | (1) |
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12.4 Support Effectiveness Criteria and Figures of Merit |
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384 | (3) |
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12.5 Examples of Support Requirements |
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387 | (2) |
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12.5.1 Support Elapsed Time (Duration) Requirements |
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387 | (1) |
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12.5.2 Support Count Requirements |
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388 | (1) |
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12.6 Interpreting and Verifying Support Requirements |
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389 | (2) |
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12.7 Supportability Engineering for High-Consequence Systems |
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391 | (1) |
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12.8 Current Best Practices in Support Requirements Development |
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391 | (3) |
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12.8.1 Identify Support Needs |
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392 | (1) |
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12.8.2 Balance Support with Economics |
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393 | (1) |
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12.8.3 Use Quantitative Modeling to Promote Rationally Based Support Requirements |
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393 | (1) |
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12.8.4 Manage Supportability by Fact |
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394 | (1) |
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395 | (1) |
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13 Design for Supportability |
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13.1 What to Expect from this Chapter |
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396 | (1) |
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13.2 Supportability Assessment |
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397 | (4) |
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13.2.1 Quantitative Supportability Assessment |
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397 | (3) |
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13.2.2 Qualitative Supportability Assessment |
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400 | (1) |
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13.3 Implementation of Factors Promoting Supportability |
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401 | (5) |
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13.3.1 Diagnostics and Fault Location |
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13.3.2 Tools and Equipment |
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402 | (1) |
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13.3.3 Documentation and Workflow Management |
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402 | (1) |
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13.3.5 Layout of Repair Facility and Workstation Design |
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13.3.6 Design of Maintenance Procedures |
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404 | (1) |
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13.3.7 Spare Parts, Repair Parts, and Consumables Inventory |
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404 | (2) |
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13.3.8 Transportation and Logistics |
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406 | (1) |
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13.4 Quantitative Design for Supportability Techniques |
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406 | (8) |
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13.4.1 Performance Analysis of a Maintenance Facility |
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406 | (6) |
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13.4.2 Staff Sizing: The Machine Servicing Model |
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412 | (2) |
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13.5 Current Best Practices in Design for Supportability |
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414 | (2) |
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13.5.1 Customer Needs and Supportability Requirements |
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414 | (1) |
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13.5.3 Modeling and Optimization |
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13.5.4 Continual Improvement |
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415 | (1) |
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417 | (2) |
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