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Improving system reliability by failure‐mode avoidance including four concept design strategies

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  • Don Clausing
  • Daniel D. Frey

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To be reliable, a system must be robust—it must avoid failure modes even in the presence of a broad range of conditions including harsh environments, changing operational demands, and internal deterioration. This paper discusses and codifies techniques for robust system design that operate by expanding the range of conditions under which the system functions. A distinction is introduced between one‐sided and two‐sided failure modes, and four strategies are presented for creating larger windows between sets of one‐sided failure modes. Each strategy is illustrated through two examples from industrial practice. For each strategy, one example is from paper handling and another is from jet engines. By showing that every strategy has been successfully applied to each system, we seek to illustrate that the strategies are widely applicable and highly effective. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Eng 8: 245–261, 2005

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  • Don Clausing & Daniel D. Frey, 2005. "Improving system reliability by failure‐mode avoidance including four concept design strategies," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(3), pages 245-261, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:syseng:v:8:y:2005:i:3:p:245-261
    DOI: 10.1002/sys.20034
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    1. Daniel Frey & Joseph Palladino & John Sullivan & Malvern Atherton, 2007. "Part count and design of robust systems," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(3), pages 203-221, September.
    2. Markus Hoppe & Avner Engel & Shalom Shachar, 2007. "SysTest: Improving the verification, validation, and testing process— Assessing six industrial pilot projects," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 10(4), pages 323-347, December.
    3. A. Terry Bahill, 2012. "Diogenes, a process for identifying unintended consequences," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(3), pages 287-306, September.
    4. Yi‐Kuei Lin & Ping‐Chen Chang, 2012. "Evaluation of system reliability for a cloud computing system with imperfect nodes," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(1), pages 83-94, March.
    5. Don P. Clausing & Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, 2008. "Rationality in systems engineering: Beyond calculation or political action," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(4), pages 309-328, December.
    6. Edouard Kujawski, 2010. "Unintended consequences of performance specifications for the reliability of military weapon systems," Systems Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 13(4), pages 405-412, December.

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