engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

, RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety)''System safety''
Norwegian University of Science and Technology is used to characterize a product or system: *

Reliability Reliability, reliable, or unreliable may refer to: Science, technology, and mathematics Computing * Data reliability (disambiguation), a property of some disk arrays in computer storage * High availability * Reliability (computer networking), ...

– as ability to perform a specific function and may be given as design reliability or operational reliability. * Availability, – as ability to keep a functioning state in the given environment. * Maintainability – as ability to be timely and easily maintained (including servicing, inspection and check, repair and/or modification). *

Safety Safety is the state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Meanings There are two slightly di ...

– as ability not to harm people, the environment, or any assets during a whole life cycle. * Systems engineering * Dependability * Failure mode * Failure rate * Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA) * Hazard analysis and critical control points *

High availability High availability (HA) is a characteristic of a system which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period. Modernization has resulted in an increased reliance on these systems. F ...

* Risk assessment *

Reliability-centered maintenance Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a concept of maintenance planning to ensure that systems continue to do what their user require in their present operating context. Successful implementation of RCM will lead to increase in cost effecti ...

* Safety instrumented system * Safety integrity level * Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) * Fault injection

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