A graphical application for creating, visualizing, and analyzing reliability block diagrams (RBDs). This tool allows engineers to model system reliability by constructing networks of components with ...

Abstract: The use of commercially available software for analyzing reliability block diagrams (RBD) has become the rule for the vast majority of reliability analysts and engineers. After a model has ...

Preparing a new or refurbished plant ready for commissioning is no small feat. The anticipated honeymoon phase of a newly commissioned plant with equipment operating optimally, production being at the ...

To discuss or clarify ideas, what engineer hasn't, at one time or another, quickly represented a system by drawing rectangles and lines to visualize its components and the relationships between said ...

The Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), also known as the Reliability Diagram, is defined in the international standard IEC 61078 as a logical graphical representation of a system showing how the ...

The failure of components can lead the whole system to fail, replacing an important component with another one of the same type can help the system to rework at lower cost. In this paper, a component ...