Are reliability growth models practical planning and monitoring tools for development?

The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the practical difficulties which arise when one attempts to plan and monitor reliability growth using the mathematical models available. So often the merit or otherwise of a growth model seems only to be discussed in terms of how well it fits developm...

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Published inReliability engineering Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12
Main Author Sheppard, John M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Barking Elsevier B.V 1985
Applied Science Publishers
Subjects
Applied sciences
Exact sciences and technology
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Reliability theory. Replacement problems
System reliability
Reliability
Modeling
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Summary:The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the practical difficulties which arise when one attempts to plan and monitor reliability growth using the mathematical models available. So often the merit or otherwise of a growth model seems only to be discussed in terms of how well it fits development data retrospectively; yet a model is surely only useful if it can be used predictively for planning and decision making.
ISSN:0143-8174
1878-2809
DOI:10.1016/0143-8174(85)90011-3