Improving system reliability by failure-mode avoidance including four concept design strategies

Systems Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 245-261

  Clausing, Don ^a,b   Frey, Daniel D ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Engineering Systems Division ^*  (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Operating window; Reliability; Robust design; System architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); RELIABILITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FAILURE MODES; OPERATING WINDOW; ROBUST DESIGN; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 27644496798     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.20034     Document Type: Article

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