Concepts used throughout the world describing improvements to production throughput are often generally referred to as “reliability.” But what does this term actually mean? The answer to this question ...

Since the invention of the integrated circuit, reliability has been defined by how long a chip continues to work. It either turned on and did what it was designed to do, or it didn’t. But that ...

“You know, brain surgery’s not difficult if you don’t care whether the person dies, it’s actually quite easy. Flying a plane is quite easy if you don’t mind crashing. That’s what hard means. It’s an ...

Reliability and Stupidity: Mistakes in Reliability Engineering and How to Avoid Them is an aptly named chapter in Jonathan Swingler’s book that discusses what a design engineer should understand about ...

Maintenance is fundamentally about sound asset management, and should be regarded as a category of asset management. An important feature of any asset is its ability to perform as specified, and at ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 1, number 2 (November–December 1969), pages 8–11, 24–25.] “… in the process ...

Those of us in the business of psychological measurement use the terms reliability and validity a lot. You've probably seen those terms on the Psychology Today website (they appear thousands of times) ...

Preliminary evidence suggests that the morning surge (MS) in blood pressure (BP) is an independent predictor of cerebrovascular disease. However, the optimal definition of MS is uncertain. To compare ...