Title :
Reliability of power converters — Lifetime cycle approach
Author :
Watanabe, Tomoki ; Fukuda, Noriko
Author_Institution :
Railway Tech. Res. Inst., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Nowadays RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) standards are widely used in the contract for the procurement of railway vehicles in the world except Japan. In spite of this Japanese railway has good punctuality and reliability in its operation. The author points out a difference between Europe and Japan in the railway business through the investigation activity of onboard inverter failures in Japan.
Keywords :
contracts; power convertors; procurement; railway rolling stock; railway safety; reliability; Europe railway business; Japanese railway business; RAMS standards; lifetime cycle; onboard inverter failures; power converters reliability; railway vehicles procurement; reliability availability maintainability and safety; Companies; Inverters; Maintenance engineering; Rail transportation; Random access memory; Reliability; Vehicles; RAMS; fault; inverter; railway;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE/PEMC), 2010 14th International
Conference_Location :
Ohrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7856-9
DOI :
10.1109/EPEPEMC.2010.5606539
