Presentation

Economic, scientific and military competition leads many industrial sectors to design ever more successful and reliable processes and equipment.

Reliability and quality control, and more generally dependability and safety, have become a crucial area in the field of industrial engineering. The term reliability is an acquisition of the 20th century. Initially, reliability was developed to meet the needs of the electronics industry. This was a consequence of the fact that the first complex systems appeared in this field of engineering. Such systems have a huge number of components which made their global reliability very low in spite of their relatively highly reliable components. This led to a specialized applied mathematical discipline which allowed one to make an a priori evaluation of various reliability indexes at the design stage, to choose an optimal system structure, to improve methods of maintenance, and to estimate the reliability on the basis of special testing or exploitation.

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François Dufour
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