Reliability engineering deals with an organized approach of time & Cost effective engineering methodologies over a span of product's lifecycle. Its basic purpose is to develop methods and tools to evaluate and demonstrate Reliability, Maintainability, availability Obsolescence management, Configuration Control Management (CCM) and safety of components, equipment and systems, as well as to support Design and Production engineers in developing these characteristics in the design stage.
The word "Reliability" is a broad term and has been defined differently by various Reliability scholars. Without intricating it further, we will try to understand the Reliability fundamentals in simple words. Reliability may be defined as The probability that an item will perform its intended function for a specified time interval under stated use condition.
There are various types of Proactive Approach to mitigate obsolescence. The selection of suitable approach must be based on the likely obsolescence. In our previous post we discussed about types of Obsolescence mitigation approach i.e Reactive and Proactive Approach in Detail. This post will...
The risk of Obsolescence is in inevitable. However, rather than taking a reactive approach to incoming Obsolescence risk, predictive planning and proactive approach for mitigation of Obsolescence Risk can minimize the extra expenses and ensure the product availability. All sectors (Commercial, Industrial, Aviation, Defense, etc) where the product life is required to be more tend to face the risk of component obsolescence.
An Obsolescence Management Process has various advantages if it is effective integrated to various stages of a product with an objective to tackle Obsolescence. With the increasing popularity and functionality of Commercial components in comparison to cost, the component obsolescence has been much frequent....