While all engineering products and processes need to have reliability designed into them to minimize or mitigate failure, the very nature of some products and processes necessitate that reliability engineering in the form of reliability prediction and reliability analysis be integral to the design process at all levels. Robert Poltz implemented the design analyses for aerospace reliability of the Space Station Electrical Power System. Robert Poltz is Reliability Consultant, President and CEO of Design Analytx International, worldwide leader in Reliability of Design Engineering Analyses of High Tech Systems. Design Analytx International CARES (Computer Aided Reliability Engineering Services). For more information about Robert Poltz, click here. To contact him directly, click here.

Fault Tree Analysis Fault tree analysis was created and developed in the 1960s, and was adopted by the nuclear power industry to analyze the safety of their electric power systems. Fault tree analysis is a probabilistic deductive systems analysis tool that provides a pictorial system representation using Boolean logic gates in a vertically oriented tree formation.   Click here to read the complete article.

Useful Web Links   Telcordia Technologies A source of telecommunication documentation, training, and packaged software   The University of Maryland List of reliability and maintainability Web sites   The University of Maryland List of professional societies   The Official Source of DoD Specifications and Standards Direct access to nearly 100,000 full text DOD Specifications and Standards available in the DOD master repository   The Center for System Reliability (CSR) at Sandia National Laboratories partners with commercial and government sectors on technical programs to involve system reliability and related technologies.   The Reliability Analysis Center (RAC) is a DOD Information Analysis Center (IAC) chartered by the DOD to collect, analyze, and disseminate data and information in a designated technical area of specialization.

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