An analysis of the drivers in the philosophy of reliability practice over the last 50 years

Proceedings of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 96-101

  Taksakulvith, Phoomphat ^a,b   Jones, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Warrington, Les ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

History; Physics of failure; Reliability prediction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FAILURE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STRATEGIC PLANNING; HISTORY; MAINTAINABILITY; ONTOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; QUALITY CONTROL;

PHYSICS OF FAILURE; RELIABILITY PREDICTION;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

DRIVING FORCES; INDUSTRIAL AREA; PARALLEL DEVELOPMENT; PHYSICS OF FAILURES; RELIABILITY PREDICTION; STATE OF THE ART; SUDDEN CHANGE; UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK;

EID: 2342525756     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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