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Optimal Reliability Design of a System

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Reliability is one of the most important attributes of performance in arriving at the optimal design of a system since it directly and significantly influences the system’s performance and its life cycle costs. Poor reliability would greatly increase life-cycle costs of the system, and reliability based design must be carried out if the system is to achieve its desired performance. An optimal reliability design is one in which all possible means available to a designer have been explored to enhance the reliability of the system with minimum cost under the constraints imposed on the development of a system.

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