TIME TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPROACH TO RELIABILITY
Abstract
The main objective of this paper was to present the authors approach to Reliability, one that is based on the laws of science. A prime example of the later is the well accepted model of system reliability that requires the acceptance of “alternative universes” to support the argument that the components and consequently systems possess a constant, time independent, failure rate. This approach stems from neither science nor observation, but from imaginary steps envisaged in the minds of its proponents who allowed all laws of science to be suspended. However, this view is in direct opposition to the observed functionability phenomena like corrosion, fatigue, creep, wear, quality problems and many other time dependent physical processes that clearly demonstrated that the components/system reliability for a stated period of time could have increasing, constant and probability of success in respect to the stage of the life of a system, consisting components and maintenance policies applied, as the science based approach caters for through the reliability function.
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