TITLE:
The Application of Reliability Methods for Aircraft Design Project Management
AUTHORS:
Darli Rodrigues Vieira, Mohamed-Larbi Rebaiaia, Milena Chang Chain
KEYWORDS:
Aircraft Engineering, Project Management, System Safety, Reliability, Maintainability
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.6 No.9,
September
27,
2016
ABSTRACT: In
aircraft project management, reliability and maintainability are fundamental
for ensuring system safety, for optimizing the manufacturing process and for
improving assembly/disassembly operations when maintenance actions are
required. The inclusion of such requirements helps to minimize life cycle
costs, augments the residual lifetime of aircraft and consequently increases
customer satisfaction. While most papers published in the aircraft engineering
literature are rather evasive or do not accurately describe the role of
reliability and maintainability (RM) methods in early design phases, this paper
elucidates the problem. This paper discusses various concepts such as design
for reliability and risk assessment analysis for improving aircraft safety and
reliability at the deployment stages. The article also focuses on how
reliability prediction issues are addressed using various methods, tools and
standards, such as failure modes and effect analysis, fault tree analysis and
guidelines such as MIL-STD-217f and ARP4754. Finally, this paper demonstrates
that reliability is crucial to consider in all phases of the life cycle of an
aircraft.