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Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality

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Reliability, maintainability, and software quality have to be built into complex equipment and system during the design and development phase. This has to be supported by analytical investigations (Chapters 2, 4, and 6) as well as by design guidelines. Adherence to such guidelines limits the influence of those aspects which can invalidate the models assumed for analytical investigations, and contributes greatly to build in reliability, maintainability, and software quality. This chapter gives a comprehensive list of design guidelines for reliability, maintainability, and software quality of complex equipment and systems, harmonized with industry's needs.

*Ingénieur et penseur, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Reliability Eng. at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

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Birolini*, A. (2010). Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality. In: Reliability Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14952-8_5

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