possible a decade ago. The intent is to improve process operations and equipment reliability, availability, and maintainability … without costly upgrades. Of course these gains must be achieved without impacting operational performance. Downsizing is also … companies to rethink their condition-based maintenance policies by moving away from reacting to equipment problems to taking a …

battlespace. Commonly, human reliability analysis has been used to predict failures of human performance in complex, critical …, including acceptance of new technology, upon performance. The cultural parameters used to modify the human reliability analysis … systems. However, most human reliability methods fail to take culture into account. This paper takes an easily understood …

Laboratory (INEEL). A "strawman" involving a set of critical systems, performance and evaluation measures, and tactics is … adaptability for their survival in the market place. The model supports the assertion that change efforts aimed at performance … improvement need a systems approach because contributions to an organization's performance cross functional lines and are systemic …

The Standardized Plant Analysis Risk-Human Reliability Analysis (SPAR-H) method has proved to be a reliable, easy …-to-use method for human reliability analysis. Calculation of human error probability (HEP) rates is especially straightforward …, starting with pre-defined nominal error rates for cognitive vs. action oriented tasks, and incorporating performance shaping …

Fiscal Year 1998 represents the second full year utilizing a results-oriented, performance-based contract. This … document describes the critical outcomes, objectives, performance indicators, expected levels of performance, and the basis for … the evaluation of the Contractors performance for the period October 1, 1997 through September 30, 1998, as required by …

) that achieves the lowest total project cost for a given probability of success while meeting technical performance and … Monte Carlo simulation tools. The approach is detailed using a realistic but simplified case of a project with two technical …

--albeit imprecise--goal in all these activities is to ''optimize performance,'' which is to have maximal success/profit/return with … itself to the overall performance and affordability. This is not unreasonable, since oftentimes major upgrades on some …

Here, in capsule form, are some lessons learned trying to integrate performance modeling into the design process …. Performance modeling should play a central role in system design; ignore it at your peril. The role of performance modeling is not … the same in all design projects. Clearly specify performance goals and what factors will affect performance; they try to …

-cause failure models have limitations in a simulation environment. In addition, substantial subjectivity is associated with … parameter estimation for these models. This paper describes an approach in which system performance is simulated by drawing … estimate parameters in traditional common-cause failure models. Simulation examples are presented for failures in time. The …