Title :
Reliability analysis - a tool set for improving business processes
Author_Institution :
ManTech Int., VA, USA
Abstract :
A methodology for applying reliability tools to business processes is presented as a means of controlling and/or reducing costs. The concept of a failure cost distribution and using it to prioritize analysis and corrective action is presented. In general, the use of reliability tools to prevent business process failures is a cost effective approach.
Keywords :
business continuity; cost reduction; reliability; business process failure prevention; business processes improvement; corrective action; cost reduction; prioritize analysis; reliability analysis; Costs; Environmental economics; Failure analysis; Fault trees; Financial management; Manufacturing processes; Marketing management; Reliability engineering; Software design; US Department of Transportation; Business Process; FMEA; Fault Tree Analysis; Reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), 2010 Proceedings - Annual
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5102-9
Electronic_ISBN :
0149-144X
DOI :
10.1109/RAMS.2010.5447983
