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Considering that complex equipment and systems are generally repairable, contain redundancy and must be safe, the term reliability appears often for reliability, maintainability, availability & safety. RAMS (in brackets) is used to point out this wherever necessary in the text. The purpose of reliability (RAMS) engineering is to develop methods and tools to evaluate and demonstrate reliability, maintainability, availability, and safety of components, equipment & systems, as well as to support development and production engineers in building in these characteristics.
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Birolini, A. (2014). Basic Concepts, Quality and Reliability (RAMS) Assurance of Complex Equipment and Systems. In: Reliability Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39535-2_1
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