Search Results - "2023 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)"

VirtualWorx™: Transforming Maintenance Concepts through Augmented Reality Collaboration Capabilities by Nepal, Ramesh, Pavlovich, Robert J., Guilherme, Carla E.

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSVirtualWorx™ began as a 2015 Raytheon Six Sigma process improvement project to solve challenges faced by customers who were being asked to…”
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Physics-Constrained Machine Learning for Reliability-Based Design Optimization by Xu, Yanwen, Wang, Pingfeng

“…Summary & ConclusionsTo aid and improve the reliability of product designs, repeated safety tests are required to find out the safety performance of the…”
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Managing Risk for the James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Mechanisms: Enabling First Light by Kalia, Prince, Evans, John, Menzel, Mike, Kilic, Halil A.

“…SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONThis paper provides insight into a series of innovative risk and reliability mitigation measures developed and implemented during the…”
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Improve Warranty Failures in Original Equipment Manufacturing via Design for Reliability by Hegde, Vinayak

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSIt is important to adopt a Design For Reliability method using the Design For Six Sigma approach to mitigate the early failures in the…”
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Sensitivity Analysis on Reliability Prediction by Hegde, Vinayak

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSBy using the sensitivity analysis, design engineering can be assured of,*Eliminating the weakest design parameter of the components at the…”
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PCA-based Monitoring of Power Plant Vibration Signal by Discrete Wavelet Decomposition Features by Oguejiofor, Benjamin N., Seo, Kangwon

“…SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONSThis paper studies the vibration signals obtained from a reactor coolant pump (RCP) of a power plant. A discrete wavelet transform (DWT)…”
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Reliability Estimation Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks by Davila-Frias, Alex, Khumprom, Phattara, Yadav, Om Prakash

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSDegradation methods have proven to be effective to estimate lifetime and reliability, especially for highly reliable products. To model…”
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Automated Driving Systems Operating as Mobility as a Service: Operational Risks and SAE J3016 Standard by Ramos, Marilia A., Correa Jullian, Camila, McCullough, John, Ma, Jiaqi, Mosleh, Ali

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSLevel 4 (L4) Automated Driving Systems (ADS) development and testing efforts target not only personal use, but also its deployment within…”
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Avoiding System Failures with Event Interval Probability - 737 MAX Case Study by Smith, Jan B.

“…Summary & ConclusionsA newly developed data analysis methodology drawing upon statistics, probability and reliability theory and Monte Carlo simulation uses…”
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A Study on Heatsink Cooling Fan Lifetime Evaluation by Ghosh, Biman, Jijun Cao, Jason, Zhu, Jefferey

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSA fan has both electronic and mechanical parts, and it can fail electronically, mechanically, or due to a combination of both modes. The…”
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Towards Compliance to Safety Objectives Using Data Curation by Herencia-Zapana, Heber, Russell, Daniel, Prince, Daniel, Siu, Kit, Cuddihy, Paul

“…Summary and ConclusionsThis paper presents a methodology to show compliance to safety objectives using a new data curation system called RACK. First, we use a…”
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Reliability & Maintainability Strategies For Repairable Systems In Rail Transportation Fleets by Alencar, Aercio Regis

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSThis paper provides a Reliability & Maintainability Strategic Decision-Making Framework Model for repairable systems in Rail…”
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Reliability Assurance for AI Systems by Blood, Jonathan C., Herbert, Nathan W., Wayne, Martin R.

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSMany applications of artificial intelligence (AI) / assistive automation are in the Army's pipeline of developmental technologies and…”
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Digital Availability Twin - Targeted Risk Mitigation from Design to Operation by Hilton, Samuel, Langton, Jake, Conroy, Paddy, Stecki, Chris

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSModel-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is a core technology in facilitating the digital transformation initiatives led by industry and…”
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Multi-Stage Product Family Design for Reliability with Remanufacturing by Liu, Xinyang, Mishra, Ankush Kumar, Hu, Chao, Wang, Pingfeng

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSThis paper develops a two-stage stochastic optimization model to optimize the reliability thresholds for options like reuse, recycling,…”
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Open Dependability Exchange Metamodel: A Format to Exchange Safety Information by Zeller, Marc, Sorokos, Ioannis, Reich, Jan, Adler, Rasmus, Schneider, Daniel

“…Summary & ConclusionsSafety-relevant systems are becoming ever more complex, and they typically contain components from different manufacturers which have been…”
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Dynamic Maintenance for a Large Scale Identical Parallel Manufacturing Systems Using Reinforcement Learning by Salmani, Mehrnaz, Azizi, Fariba, Rasay, Hasan, Naderkhani, Farnoosh

“…In this paper, we propose a Machin Learning (ML)-based framework for maintenance decision making for multi-unit system. More specifically, we propose…”
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Computational Enhancements to the Mahalanobis-Taguchi System to Improve Fault Detection and Diagnostics by Scott, Kevin, Kakde, Deovrat, Peredriy, Sergiy, Chaudhuri, Arin

“…SUMMARYFault detection and diagnostics (FDD) refers to identifying the abnormal operations of a machine and then determining the cause or causes of the fault…”
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A Decision-Making Framework for the KC-46A Maintenance Program by Blond, Kyle E., Clark, Anne L., Bradley, Thomas H.

“…SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONSThis paper provides a Decision-Making Framework to evaluate KC-46A scheduled maintenance task effectiveness. This framework is the…”
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Integrating Fault Tree Analysis with System Theoretic Process Analysis by Weglian, John E., Riley, Jeff, Gibson, Matt

“…Summary & ConclusionsWhen designing a digital instrumentation and control (DI&C) system, flaws in the architecture or software, failures of components,…”
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