TY - JOUR
AU - Winkel, L.
AB - Can reliability concepts be of practical use for a control engineer? By L. Winkel European Quality Assurance Manager, Foxboro Nederland NV probability of a manufacturing batch (b) major - failure which degrades Control systems reliability an essential function with far less being acceptable or not. Control systems reliability depends a threat to safety; Besides the control over the manufac­ upon each module's reliability and the (c) minor - failures which cause a turing process, burn-in and extended configuration of the modules within the loss of a convenience function. testing is required to reduce the infant system. In this respect a module must mortality to such a level that ICs deli­ The second is a measure of failure be considered as an assembly of inter­ vered to a customer are in the random during a specific period of time. The connected components which consti­ failure mode or the useful life time of Bath-tub curve is a well known example. tutes an identifiable itenl, device, in­ the Bath-tub curve. This curve is divided into three time strument or piece of equipment. Experience within our organisation periods: Reliability (R) can be more formally has demonstrated that not all manufac­ (a) early life 
TI - Can Reliability Concepts be of Practical Use for a Control Engineer?
JF - Measurement and Control
DO - 10.1177/002029408401701002
DA - 1984-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/can-reliability-concepts-be-of-practical-use-for-a-control-engineer-0JdylaKCo7
SP - 369
EP - 374
VL - 17
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
ER -