Title :
Computer Reliability Optimization System
Author :
Cici, A.S. ; Muglia, V.O.
Author_Institution :
Hoffman Electronics Corporation, El Monte, Calif. 91734.
Abstract :
The short electronic system development time, the acute competitiveness, the emphasis on lower costs, and the insistence upon high reliability has fostered practical computerization of the manager´s and designer´s reliability function. This computerization attempts to achieve feasible system optimization. The Computerized Reliability Optimization System (CROS) was developed by Hoffman Electronics Corporation´s Computer-Aided-Design, Analysis, and Reliability Group to provide an optimum solution to the present system reliability methods. CROS is a comprehensive set of computer programs and a complementary design and management method for handling the total reliability function from proposal effort through the production and field-data analysis. The organization, application, feasibility, and results of CROS are discussed.
Keywords :
Abstracts; Application software; Cost function; Data analysis; Design engineering; Engineering management; Laboratories; Proposals; Reliability engineering; Thermal stresses;
Journal_Title :
Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TR.1971.5216109