A development aid project to Malawi is described. This involved the development of a suitable anaesthetic machine for use in under-developed countries and the selection of a suitable oxygen concentrator to provide it with air and oxygen. All government hospitals were provided with anaesthetic equipment and personnel were trained to keep it regularly serviced. Follow up testing of reliability wa...

Industrial systems are becoming more and more complex and expensive to operate. Companies are making considerable efforts to increase operational efficiency and eliminate unplanned downtime of their equipment. Condition monitoring has been applied to improve equipment availability and reliability. Most of the condition monitoring applications, however, focus on single components, not on entire ...

Emerging technologies related to sugar factory operations are reviewed in the context of the potential impact of new factory technology. Increased productivity is the key goal and is a more complex issue than factory output alone. It is related to the efficient use of resources, including energy, equipment design and reliability and performance optimization. New technology is divided in this di...

Synchronous switching is one subject that have gained a great deal of relevance not only because of their potential for increasing reliability and for making a contribution to improve the overall power quality of the electric systems, but also for economic reasons. These concepts can be instrumental in minimizing the use of auxiliary components, such as pre-insertion resistors, in reducing equi...

Heat emission and temperature control in an electronic device are highly correlated with power consumption as well as to equipment’s reliability. Within this context, this chapter discusses a possible solution to restrict the processing component’s heat emission in FPGA-based systems (e.g., Cognitive Radio [CR] equipment). It also describes the implementation, on reconfigurable FPGA based circu...

Reliability engineering focuses on the ability of physical equipment to function without failure [...]

This paper proposes new approaches for designing a bipolar DS acquisition system to reduce the harm of external factors on equipment, as well as fulfill system requirements at the veracity and reliability of the equipment to quickly connect. The design method chosen is ACPL-224 for chip of the interface about data acquisition on the FPGA device, including system principle, interface circuit log...

− This paper is focused on comparison of three proposed methods for testing the modules and the complex installations of distributed systems (fieldbuses) for the use in a harsh industrial environment and applications, where the system reliability is a crucial requirement. The methods are defined, their advantages and disadvantages are explained and expected test results are presented. Special a...

The aim of PROTEUS -a system for the analysis of short technical texts -is to increase the reliability of the analysis process through the integration of syntactic and semantic constraints, domain knowledge, and knowledge of discourse structure. This system is initially being applied to the analysis of messages describing the failure, diagnosis, and repair of selected pieces of equipment. This ...

objective(s): reliability measures precision or the extent to which test results can be replicated. this is the first ever systematic review to identify statistical methods used to measure reliability of equipment measuring continuous variables. this studyalso aims to highlight the inappropriate statistical method used in the reliability analysis and its implication in the medical practice.   m...