Managerial Approach for Reliability Verification of Mechanical Equipment

摘要

Difficulties involved in the verification of the required reliability ofmechanical equipment are discussed. The lack of adequate statistical failure rate data covering the specific properties of mechanical equipment is identified as being one of the major difficulties. Since a straightforward demonstration of the reliability of individual equipment through reliability testing is not feasible in most cases for cost and time reasons, an effective Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) management system is proposed to verify the reliability using test data and other available data.