Warranty data contain useful information about product quality and reliability, but they are usually coarse data because they may be aggregated, delayed, censored, missing or vague. They might, however, be the only forms of warranty data a manufacturer has, analysing such data are therefore needed and can also be of benefit to manufacturers in identifying early warnings of abnormalities in thei...

Power electronic devices are susceptible to catastrophic failures when they are exposed to energetic particles; the most serious failure mechanism is single event burnout (SEB). SEB is a widely recognized problem for space applications, but it also may affect devices in terrestrial applications. This phenomenon has been studied in detail for power MOSFETs, but much less is known about the mecha...

Considering a semicoherent system made up of n components having i.i.d. continuous lifetimes, Samaniego defined its structural signature as the n-tuple whose k-th coordinate is the probability that the k-th component failure causes the system to fail. This n-tuple, which depends only on the structure of the system and not on the distribution of the component lifetimes, is a very useful tool in ...

Abstract: The paper presents an example of qualitative and quantitative application of a method for assessing component importance of a reliability structure in the case of a complex technical system based on the example of the subsystem of a marine power plant, that is, a lube oil system for sealing a stern tube. An example of the importance of the analysis considered in terms of not only reli...

This dissertation contains contributions to the management of optical transport networks. The focus is on traffic modeling, analysis of failure mechanism, and the development of a novel semi-automatic network management system. The developed service oriented traffic models serve as input parameters for the network management system and include the special routing of the analyzed services. An ev...