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3 unusual facts about reliability


Reliability

Reliability theory, as a theoretical concept, to explain biological aging and species longevity

Reliability engineering, the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time.

Reliability prediction for electronic components

Reliability has a major impact on maintenance and repair costs and on the continuity of service.


1966 Formula One season

Although both Jack Brabham and his team mate, New Zealander Denny Hulme both retired from the season opening Monaco Grand Prix (won by Jackie Stewart in his BRM), Brabham with their Oldsmobile based Repco engine caught the rest of the teams on the hop with its speed and reliability.

Airspeed Viceroy

The Airspeed Viceroy started the race from RAF Mildenhall, England, but after several reliability problems including with the mainwheel brakes, it was withdrawn from the race at Athens.

Andrew Summers Rowan

In 1899 artist and publisher Elbert Hubbard wrote a passage entitled A Message to Garcia extolling the virtues of Rowan, lauding his reliability and competence.

Animal testing regulations

A study conducted in 2001 by Psychology Professor Scott Plous of Wesleyan University that evaluated the reliability of IACUCs found little consistency between decisions made by IACUCs at different institutions.

Avaya Secure Router 4134

The Avaya secure router 4134 has fully integrated firewalls and VPNs for increased reliability; it also includes a stateful packet firewall and prevention of over 60 distributed denial of service attacks.

Blackburn Cirrus Minor

The Minor was known for excellent reliability, and had a major "win" when it was selected to power the RAF's Taylorcraft Auster observation aircraft.

British Rail Class 90

A deal was struck and progressively 90001-015 were delivered to Norwich Crown Point to replace the Class 86s, but their reliability was not good and the last few Class 86s were kept in service, and Class 47s hired from Cotswold Rail were sometimes used.

Cielo Wind Power

Cielo Wind Power is a member of or associated with the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association, the American Wind Energy Association, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, Gulf Coast Power, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association, the Southwestern Cattleman’s Association, the National Association of Tower Erectors, and the Fort Stockton, McCamey and Ozona Chambers of Commerce.

Circuit reliability

Circuit reliability is given by where T o is the circuit total outage time, Ts is the circuit total scheduled time, and T a is the circuit total available time.

Controversies involving the Indian Premier League

On the reliability of the report, Rajat Sharma, the editor-in-chief of news channel India TV quoted that the channel had no doubts about the authenticity of the sting operation and prepared to go to court.

Cronbach

Cronbach's alpha, a coefficient of reliability developed by Lee Cronbach

Crossed-field amplifier

This approach was used on the S-band downlink transmitter on the Apollo Lunar Module where high efficiency and reliability were needed.

Cyril Hoyt

His modesty is perhaps one of the reasons that the generalization of the Kuder-Richardson's (1937) formulation of the coefficient of internal consistency reliability to a continuous case is generally ascribed to Lee Cronbach (1951), even though this generalization was already made a decade earlier (Hoyt, 1941).

David Bogie

2009 saw him mount a full season in the British Rally Championship where, despite two podium finishes, reliability problems with his Mitsubishi EVO X meant he had a disappointing season.

European Reference Materials

European Reference Materials or ERM are certified reference materials of high quality and reliability produced by members of the European Reference Materials consortium in the European Union .

FORM

First-order reliability method, a method to evaluate the reliability of a civil engineering structure

Fujitsu Eagle

The data density, access speed, reliability, use of a standard interface, and price point combined to make it a very popular product used by many system manufacturers, such as Sun Microsystems.

Gauge Change Train

In 2014 the train is scheduled to undertake a ~600,000km, 3 year reliability trial between Kumomoto and Kagoshima-Chuo Station, including gauge changing at Shin-Yatsushiro Station.

Government Secure Intranet

GSi uses SMTP as mail transport protocol, and the conversion from the then prevalent X.400 email facilities to SMTP proved for many departments an improvement in reliability and speed.

Guy McKenna

He formed one of the most feared backlines in the AFL, along with John Worsfold, Ashley McIntosh, Glen Jakovich and Michael Brennan and was known for his cool demeanour and reliability.

Guy P. Harrison

In the book, Harrison touches on various issues of Christian belief, such as the rapture and the reliability of the Bible.

Hass

HAST (reliability) - Highly accelerated stress test -- a type of an environmental stress test used to compress humidity testing in reliability engineering

Hirth HM 500

Due to low fuel consumption and excellent reliability, the HM 500 was chosen as the powerplant for the Bücker Bü 181.

Human Error

Human error assessment and reduction technique (HEART), a technique used in the field of human reliability

Jason Wolfe

Despite his reliability, Wolfe opted not to re-sign the following year, in part because of the birth of his first child, with player/coach Tony Hand opting to sign ex-NHL goaltender Scott Fankhouser as a result.

Kia Carnival

According to MSN autos reliability survey, 2006 Kia Sedona reliability rated as good, overall 5/5.

Lawrence M. Breed

Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Dick Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery "for their work in the design and implementation of APL\360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems.

Life of Constantine

The reliability as a historical text has been called into question by several historians, most notably Timothy Barnes, throughout history, due to its questionable motives and writing style.

M109 howitzer

M109A2s and M109A3s improved with Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical / Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (NBC/RAM) improvements, including air purifiers, heaters, and Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) gear.

M3 Half-track

The design, using as many commercial components as possible to improve reliability and rate of production, was standardized in 1940 and built by the Autocar Company, Diamond T Motor Company, and the White Company.

Mountain Cablevision

That same year, The Ontario Housing Corporation (which designed the Buchanan Park subdivision on Hamilton Mountain) was surveying the possibility of building a whole housing project with no above-ground utilities (placing them all underground to improve safety and reliability during storms).

National Benzole

The young company received a boost in 1920 with the award of the RAC Dewar Trophy to a Rolls-Royce 40/50 hp that successfully completed a 10,000 mile reliability trial fueled exclusively by National Benzole.

Nissan R382

Although the previous R381 had shown its potential in terms of aerodynamics and reliability, the car had been unable to use the planned 600 hp 5954cc V12 engine that Prince was building for Nissan.

Offshore wind power

Turbines are much less accessible when offshore (requiring the use of a service vessel for routine access, and a jackup rig for heavy service such as gearbox replacement), and thus reliability is more important than for an onshore turbine.

Ongoing reliability test

highly accelerated stress test is a Ongoing Reliability Test that uses the empirical operational limits as the reference for the combined vibration, thermal cycling, and other stress applied to find latent defects.

Peter G. Gyarmati

Later he worked with networking reliability, security, in Vienna, and Stuttgart and also in Budapest for BSB, TCC and worked in Stanford University, Palo Alto, U.S. as a guest professor, and as emeritus returned to Szentendre, where he lives now.

Power MOSFET

Seeking to improve the manufacturing efficiency and reliability of super-junction MOSFETs, Renesas Electronics developed a super-junction structure with a deep-trench process technique.

Ruger MK II

Together with the MK I, the MK II was the suggested handgun in Paladin Press's controversial how-to book, Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors, due to low cost and reliability.

Spurious trip level

The best reliability model to use is a Markov model (see Andrey Markov).

SQuORE

The main goal of software analysis is the assessment of quality characteristics like maintainability, reliability or maturity.

SyntheSys Research

Ultimately, channels become so optimized they are operating at the extents of their physical limitations, and in these cases, improving reliability is done by adding Forward error correction (FEC) also known as Error Correcting Code (ECC) capabilities that trade the overhead of transmitting extra information with the advantage of being able to correct errors during transmission.

Temple at Uppsala

Rudolf Simek says that, regarding Adam of Bremen's account of the temple, "Adam's sources for this information are of extremely varying reliability, but the existence of a temple at Uppsala is undisputed."

The Two Babylons

Although extensively footnoted, giving the impression of reliability, commentators (in particular Ralph Woodrow) have stated that there are numerous misconceptions, fabrications and grave factual errors in the document.

Thyristor drive

They remained the predominant type of industrial motor controller until the end of the 1980s when the availability of low cost electronics led to their replacement by chopper drives for high performance systems and inverters for high reliability with AC motors.

Type 074 medium landing ship

The primary improvement of Type 271III LCU over Type 271IID is that its propulsion system was German origin (MAN SE), and China license produced it to greatly increase the reliability and service life of engine.

W0KIE

Spring 2004
POTS line digital codec units are obtained, bringing a further improvement in fidelity and reliability over the aging and ailing frequency extender

Web template system

For other members of the "site team", a template system frees webmasters to focus on technical maintenance, content suppliers to focus on content, and for all of them more reliability.


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