A Systems Engineering Approach to Reliability

Alexander W. Boldyreff

ResearchPublished 1961

Reliability approached as a problem of designing reliable systems using existing and, therefore, none too reliable components. Principal areas of concern to a reliability engineering organization are listed, as well as some general methods of increasing system reliability. Types of redundancy in system design are given.

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