Table of
Content
Front
page:
President's
Message
From the Editor
Messages from VPs:
VP Publications Report from Dr. Robert Loomis
Society
News:
2011 EXCOM and ADCOM Members
Prestigious Engineer of the Year Award
Best Chapter Awards
AdCom Meeting
Nominations for IEEE Medals and Recognitions
RS seeks Administrative Committee Candidates for 2012/2013/2014 Term
Reliability Society Past AdCom Members Obituaries:
Former RS President Monshaw Dies At 84
Obituary for Ann Miller
Feature Articles:
Reliability through the
Ages
Reliability Overview of Air Traffic Reliability in the National Air Space
Regular Articles:
Field Based Reliability Calculations (MTBF) – Surmounting Practical Challenges. An outside the box approach.
Applying basic and familiar reliability theory to estimating and improving the avialablity of software-intensive systems
Fault Tolerance in Web Services
PHM Articles:
Detection of Multiple Failure-Modes in Electronics using Self-Organized Mapping
Book Review :
Reliability Engineering Book Review
Chapter Activities:
Cleveland Chapter
Taipei/Tainan Chapter
The Denver Chapter awarded a certificate to Hobbs Engineering
Announcements:
Solicitation for Society Technical Committees
UK&RI Workshop on Reliability and Safety
WCEAM-IMS 2001
Links:
Reliability Society Home
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IEEE Reliability Society UK&RI Workshop on
Reliability & Safety
14th April 2011 at the University of Greenwich, London, England
Reliability
Reliability is synonymous with freedom from unacceptable levels of functional failure that lead to unavailability of products,
systems or services. Unlike safety, reliability problems may be characterised by poor design, technology choices inadequate for the intended application or environment,
manufacturing errors, faults and poor maintenance. The focal point in reliability is continued functionality of the product or system and the consequences of such failures.
Reliability, as yet, is not generally regulated and may be regarded as mainly a commercial decision by duty holders. Nevertheless unacceptable level of failures can affect
human health, safety or welfare because of the hazards that can arise, for example by failures of transport - (such as electronics in aircraft, cars and or trains).
There have been a number of recalls in recent times and the “Time-bomb” presentation at the recent Reliability OutReach event highlight such hazards.
Safety
Safety arises from freedom from unacceptable levels of harm to people and is an essential property of most products, systems,
processes or services. However, in view of ever increasing complexity, development and change, safety is often difficult if not sometimes impossible to entirely predict,
manage and guarantee. At the same time, rising social awareness and the more stringent legal requirements almost globally demand higher levels of safety performance from products,
processes, systems, services and the duty holders. Safety problems are characterised by unintended yet harmful incidents and accidents that apart from acts of nature,
are mainly traceable to our shortcomings in concept, design, development, deployment or maintenance of products and services. Safety is heavily regulated and health,
safety and welfare of people are under legal protection in most developed countries.
Aims of the Workshop
Safety and reliability are essentially emergent properties of a product, process, system or undertaking. Safety as a duty of care placed on
all purveyors of products and services is regulated by law, whereas reliability has been regulated by the market it is no longer solely a commercial choice. Consequently,
there are many synergies between the two domains that had been viewed as separate disciplines. This joint workshop will explore the common grounds between these two essential
properties with the help of industrial and academic experts and aim to provide systemic insights into an integrated approach.
See the Abstracts and Register for the event at http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/reliability-safety/index.htm
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