This unit covers fundamental concepts of failures and reliability models. It presents methods to identify an item's failure distribution and associated reliability functions. It also covers reliability of single pieces of equipment and systems of components, i.e. series and parallel or redundant systems and commonly used availability measures. Techniques and processes include FMEA, probability plotting and Weibull failure data analysis, confidence limits and hypothesis testing, reliability centred maintenance (RCM) and reliability block diagram (RBD). -- Course Website