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Background and Motivation

In: Reliability is a New Science

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  • Paolo Rocchi

    (IBM
    LUISS Guido Carli University)

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Since time immemorial ensuring the dependability of machines and buildings was felt to be a normal duty by engineers. Manufacturers systematically made sure that mechanisms created by them would operate when expected. In the medical field, the basic service offered by doctors was to ensure good health to the patient. In literature and in professional practices one can see a long term concern regarding good-functioning systems—animate as well inanimate—but the concept of ‘reliability’ did not have scientific status for centuries and emerged with a precise meaning only in the twenties of the past century when it was used in connection with various industrial issues.

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  • Paolo Rocchi, 2017. "Background and Motivation," Springer Books, in: Reliability is a New Science, chapter 0, pages 1-16, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-57472-1_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57472-1_1
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