Robotics for hazardous environments is one of the most important and fast growing areas in the robotics industry [4, 5, 6, 12]. This area focuses on providing a high level functionality in arenas where humans cannot safely or cheaply work. However, the usefulness of the robot in hazardous situations is highly dependent on its reliability. Hazardous environments can damage robotic components, ar...

Maintenance is one of the most critical tasks during the operation of a system. The reason is profound as it has effect on the life extension of its components and provides also a better delivered quality of service. Thus a maintenance policy may increase the reliability, the availability and other performance indicators which are mainly used to measure maintenance efficiency, but it also incre...

Nowadays, large-scale systems perform various missions with multiple functions during life cycles for satisfying the customer’s various needs. Therefore, we should develop the robust and attractive systems and be accurately evaluated prior to development of the system. System availability is often considered to represent the performance of the repairable systems and can be increased through imp...

The present context of the electric industry, characterized by competitive markets, privatization, and regulatory of technical requirements forces the power utilities to optimize their asset management practices and develop the requisite decision plans techno-economically. Practically approaching, this paper devises a new support tool based on a multiattribute decision making (MADM) framework i...

The article discusses history of technical diagnostics and repair organization in industry Russia. formation the principles repair, which were further formed into a system preventive planned repairs, is considered. At one stages industrial development systems, it became necessary to develop machines equipment that can be carried out on working equipment. main reasons key points at various are

The present paper investigates the reliability and sensitivity analysis of a coal handling unit of a thermal power plant using a probabilistic approach. Coal handling unit is the main block of a thermal power plant and it is necessary for a good function of a power plant that its power supply, which is dealt in coal handling unit, must function continuously without any obstacle. The configurati...

1Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; 2Department of Haematology, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; 3Diagnostic Haematology, Melbourne Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; 4Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and 5Biomedi...

Medication error (ME) is the most common preventable cause of adverse drug events which negatively affects patient safety. Inadequate, low-quality studies plus wide estimation variations in ME from developing countries including Iran, decreases the reliability of ME evaluations. To clarify sources, underreporting reasons and preventive measures of MEs, we reviewed Iran current available literat...

The main research intent of this paper is to introduce the use of fault tree analysis (FTA) and failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) in conjunction to analyse the risk and reliability of a complex mechatronic system in both qualitative and quantitative manner. The major focus is on handling imprecise and vague information with the help of fuzzy synthesis of information. A complex mechatroni...