Webinar: Untangling Systems Reliability on the left side of the Vee
Speaker: Kevin Howard
System reliability is all too often considered as a component issue: the assessment of system failure is seen as the statistical sum of component failures.
The development of Mil Std 217 in 1961 was intended to standardise the assessment of reliability but it was conceived as a retrospective to the design process. Other standards, SR332, IEC 62380, SN29500, FIDES, have been developed as result of perceived shortfalls Mil Std 217 in specific environments. They try to look at reliability in a wider context, yet they are all principally retrospective to design.
That is, they manly apply to the right-hand side of the V.
What of the left-hand side? With the implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/1799 in June 2024, the right to reliable repair services, reliability must be seen in the wider context of Availability and Maintainability.
The target for implementation is 31st July 2026. This webinar will explore the factors and thinking necessary in the early stages of systems engineering to deliver reliable and repairable systems. It will consider how requirements statements can be challenged and improved, how architecture can be used to underpin reliable and maintainable design, and how the standards can be applied earlier in the design cycle.
It will address how to make reliability an outcome of systems engineering, rather than a retrospective assessment of design detail.