Abstract
M.Ing.
This dissertation proposes a reliability management process for the development of complex
electromechanical systems. Specific emphasis is the development of these systems in an
environment of limited development resources, and where small production quantities are
envisaged.
The results of this research will provide a management strategy for reliability engineering
activities, within a systems engineering environment, where concurrent engineering techniques
are used to reduce development cycles and costs.
In order to implement a successful reliability engineering and growth management process, the
following objectives need to be met:
To ensure that reliability is designed into the system under development by
providing reliability design data to the system engineering and development
teams.
To optimise reliability testing resource expenditure by managing the reliability
growth process through a design problem monitoring and solution management
process.
To ensure that system life-cycle costs are optimised through good reliability
design choices.
To provide an environment where reliability engineering is a integral part of the
system engineering process so as to optimise the rapid development process while
keeping development expenditure within acceptable limits.