Reliability (R) is the probability a component or system will perform as designed. Like all probability figures, reliability ranges in…
Failure rate tends to be constant during a component’s useful lifespan where the major cause of failure is random events…
Suppose a control valve manufacturer produces a large number of valves, which are then sold to customers and used in…
Suppose a semiconductor manufacturer creates a microprocessor “chip” containing 2500000 transistors, each of which is virtually identical to the next…
In reliability engineering, it is important to be able to quantity the reliability (or conversely, the probability of failure) for…
The relatively simple concepts of AND and OR Boolean functions become surprisingly complicated when applying them to real-life measures of…
While the term “probability” may evoke images of imprecision, probability is in fact an exact mathematical concept: the ratio a…
Here we discuss about instrumentation related to industrial process safety. Instrumentation safety may be broadly divided into two categories: how…
Nuclear fission is a process by which the nuclei of specific types of atoms (most notably uranium-235 and plutonium-239) undergo…
A Safety instrumented system (SIS) consists of an engineered set of hardware and software controls which are especially used on…
