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Reliability and Maintainability Management

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The reliability discipline is one of the vital areas of assurance sciences. The beginning of the reliability engineering discipline goes back to World War II when the basic chain links concept was developed during the development of the VI rocket. This concept was simply stated as that the chain’s weakest link’s strength is the maximum strength of the chain.

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Dhillon, B.S., Natesan, J. (1984). Reliability and Maintainability Management. In: Chang, SK. (eds) Management and Office Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2677-9_27

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