Concepts of Reliability: Failure of systems and its modes: Measure of Reliability,
Reliability Function, Hazard Rate MTBF and their interrelations.
Reliability Data Analysis: Data Sources, Data Collection, Use of Reliability data,
Reliability Analysis, Performance Parameters, Calculation of Failure Rate, Application of
Weibull distribution.
System Reliability And Modeling: Series Systems, Parallel systems, Series Parallel
systems, Time dependence, Reliability determination, Standby systems, r out of n
configurations, Methods of tie set and cutsets of or reliability evaluation, Simulation and
Reliability Predeiction, Monte Carlo Method.
Maintainability And Availability: Maintainability and its equation, Factors affecting
maintainability, Measures of maintainability, Mean Down Time, Availability intrinsic
availability equipment availability & Mission availability, Replacement Process and
Policies.
Life Testing of Equipments: Non destructive tests, Destruction tests and their
mathematic modelling, Quality and Reliability, Measurement & Prediction of Human
Reliability, Reliability and safety, Safety margins in critical devices, Case studies.
Value Engineering: Techniques in value Engineering structures of Engg. Reliability
Management.