Reliability improvement through alternative designs-A case study

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 983-991

  Kumar, Saurabh ^a   Chattopadhyay, Gopi ^b   Kumar, Uday ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost estimation; Design changes; Down time; Reliability improvement

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; GRINDING MACHINES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

COST ESTIMATION; DESIGN CHANGES; DOWN TIME; RELIABILITY IMPROVEMENT;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847653266     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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