Reliability and Stupidity: Mistakes in Reliability Engineering and How to Avoid Them is an aptly named chapter in Jonathan Swingler’s book that discusses what a design engineer should understand about ...

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Reliability is a critical issue in industrial and commercial power distribution systems. Since poor reliability leads to costly power outages, understanding cost-reliability trade-offs in designing ...

From increasing decarbonization, electrification, and distributed generation, to more frequent extreme weather events from climate change, the electric power system is undergoing immense change. These ...

A short outage may not cause much trouble for a refrigerated storage facility, but unplanned shutdowns may cost millions of dollars and cause a drop in share price for data centers, microchip ...

Power system reliability evaluation is a critical domain of research dedicated to ensuring the continuous and stable supply of electrical power. This field encompasses the quantitative assessment of ...

When it comes to process-control systems, reliability is crucial and failure can be costly or dangerous. A combination of good design practices, component selection, and testing can enhance ...