Purpose The research approach is based on the concept that a failure event is rarely
random and is often generated by a chain of previous events connected by a sort of domino …

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a systematic approach for evaluating the
potential failure modes in a system, and is mainly employed in three distinct tasks …

This research has developed several models and methodologies with the aim of improving
the accuracy and applicability of reliability predictions for complex repairable systems. A …

Common cause failure describes a condition where several components share the same
source of failure that causes them to fail or become unavailable simultaneously. The …

In several industrial fields like air transport, energy industry and military domain,
maintenance actions are carried out during downtimes in order to maintain the reliability and …

Preventive maintenance is required to keep critical systems available at reasonable costs.
Instead of applying the traditional experience-based approach of statistical analysis of …

Repairable system reliability analysis is very important to industry and, for complex systems,
replacing a failed component is the most commonly used corrective maintenance action as it …

The increasing complexity of modern products is the cause of many quality problems and
deficit concerning technical reliability [1–3]. An example for this is the vast number of recalls …

Purpose In the automotive industry, the high process complexity becomes an important
issue because of the increased number of product and process variants demanded by the …

Multi-component repairable systems cannot be modeled by continuous distributions, such
as the Weibull. Failures occurring in repairable systems are examples of a series of descrete …