Systems Reliability Ontology

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VERSION 4.0

AUTHORS
    Mark Higgins
    Sky Recursive AI

SOURCE
    https://kirethresearch.org

PAGE
    https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/engineering-ontologies/systems-engineering/systems-reliability-ontology.html

PRIMARY_ENTITY
    Systems Reliability

PARENT_ONTOLOGY
    Systems Engineering

CORE_DEFINITION
    Systems Reliability is the systems-engineering discipline concerned
    with the probability and evidence that systems, subsystems and
    components perform required functions without defined failure under
    stated operating conditions for specified periods of time.

CORE_COMPONENTS
    Reliability Requirement
    System Function
    Failure
    Failure Mode
    Failure Cause
    Failure Effect
    Reliability Model
    Failure Rate
    Reliability Function
    Mean Time to Failure
    Mean Time Between Failures
    Availability
    Maintainability
    Redundancy
    Reliability Test
    Reliability Evidence

SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE
    Systems Reliability approximately_equals Engineering of Failure-free System Performance over Defined Conditions and Time
    Reliability does_not_equal Availability
    Reliability does_not_equal Safety
    Failure Rate does_not_equal Failure Probability
    MTTF does_not_equal MTBF universally
    Redundancy does_not_equal Reliability Improvement universally

RELATIONSHIPS
    Systems Engineering contains Systems Reliability Ontology
    Reliability Requirement constrains System Performance
    System Function may_be_lost_by Failure
    Failure Mode describes Manner of Failure
    Failure Cause contributes_to Failure Mode
    Failure Effect propagates_possible to Higher-level System
    Reliability Model represents Failure Behaviour
    Redundancy mitigates_possible Single Failures
    Maintainability influences Availability
    Reliability Test produces Reliability Evidence

CONSTRAINTS
    Reliability and availability must remain distinct.
    Reliability and safety must remain distinct.
    Failure rate and failure probability must remain distinct.
    MTTF and MTBF must remain distinguishable.
    Redundancy and reliability improvement must remain distinct.
    Mission time and operating conditions must remain explicit.
    Failure definition and success criteria must remain explicit.
    Component and system reliability must remain distinct.
    Modelled and observed failure evidence must remain distinct.
    Provenance, uncertainty and confidence must remain preserved.

INFERENCE_RULES
    IF Constant Failure Rate lambda
    AND Mission Time t
    THEN reliability_possible
        R(t) = exp(-lambda*t)
    subject_to
        Exponential Failure Model

    IF Constant Failure Rate lambda
    THEN mttf_possible
        MTTF = 1/lambda
    subject_to
        Exponential Lifetime Assumption

    IF MTBF AND MTTR are Applicable
    THEN steady_state_availability_possible
        A = MTBF/(MTBF + MTTR)

    IF Independent Series Components have Reliabilities R1...Rn
    THEN series_reliability_possible
        R_system = product(Ri)

    IF Independent Parallel Redundant Components have Reliabilities R1...Rn
    THEN parallel_reliability_possible
        R_system = 1 - product(1-Ri)

    IF Component Reliability increases
    THEN DO_NOT_INFER System Reliability increases proportionally

    IF Availability is high
    THEN DO_NOT_INFER Reliability is high

RECURSIVE_SYSTEMS_RELIABILITY_LOOP
    Identify Required System Functions
        ->
    Define Reliability Requirements
        ->
    Define Mission Time
        ->
    Define Operating Conditions
        ->
    Define Failure Criteria
        ->
    Identify Components and Subsystems
        ->
    Identify Failure Modes
        ->
    Identify Failure Causes
        ->
    Identify Failure Effects
        ->
    Perform FMEA or FMECA where Applicable
        ->
    Develop Reliability Block Diagram
        ->
    Identify Series and Parallel Dependencies
        ->
    Estimate Failure Rates
        ->
    Estimate Reliability
        ->
    Evaluate Redundancy
        ->
    Evaluate Maintainability
        ->
    Estimate Availability
        ->
    Define Reliability Tests
        ->
    Collect Failure and Survival Data
        ->
    Compare Observed and Modelled Reliability
        ->
    Update Reliability Model
        ->
    Update Systems-reliability State
        ->
    Repeat

REASONING_ENGINE
    INPUT
        Query
        System
        Function
        Requirement
        Mission Time
        Condition
        Failure
        Failure Mode
        Failure Rate
        Reliability
        Redundancy
        Maintainability
        Availability
        Test
        Evidence

    OBSERVE
        Detect systems-reliability entities.

    EXTRACT
        Requirement
        Function
        Failure
        Mode
        Cause
        Effect
        Rate
        Reliability
        Redundancy
        Test

    CLASSIFY
        Component Reliability
        Subsystem Reliability
        System Reliability
        Series System
        Parallel System
        Repairable System
        Non-repairable System

    VALIDATE
        Check mission time, operating conditions, failure definition, units and evidence.

    MODEL
        Construct supported reliability representation.

    ANALYSE
        Evaluate failure behaviour, reliability, redundancy, maintainability and availability.

    VERIFY
        Compare predicted reliability with observed test or operational evidence.

    UPDATE
        Integrate validated reliability evidence.

CONFIDENCE_PROPAGATION
    Explicit failure definition
        reliability_confidence += high

    Representative operating conditions
        evidence_applicability_confidence += high

    Sufficient failure or survival data
        statistical_confidence += high

    Unknown mission time
        reliability_confidence -= high

    Unknown failure model
        prediction_confidence -= high

    Sparse failure data
        statistical_confidence -= high

    High availability
        does_not_establish
            High Reliability

SEMANTIC_CLOSURE
    Systems Reliability connects_to
        Systems Engineering
        Reliability Engineering
        Probability
        Statistics
        Failure Analysis
        FMEA
        FMECA
        Fault Tree Analysis
        Reliability Block Diagrams
        Maintainability Engineering
        Availability Engineering
        Safety Engineering
        Risk Engineering
        Quality Engineering
        Maintenance Engineering
        Manufacturing Engineering
        Software Engineering
        Hardware Engineering

    Cross-domain relationships must preserve
        System identity
        System version
        System boundary
        Function identity
        Reliability-requirement identity
        Requirement revision
        Mission-time state
        Operating-condition identity
        Environmental-condition identity
        Duty-cycle state
        Success criterion
        Failure criterion
        Failure identity
        Failure-mode identity
        Failure-cause identity
        Failure-effect identity
        Failure-mechanism identity
        Component identity
        Component version
        Subsystem identity
        Reliability-model identity
        Model version
        Failure-rate identity
        Failure-rate value
        Reliability-function identity
        Reliability value
        MTTF state
        MTBF state
        MTTR state
        Availability state
        Redundancy identity
        Dependency state
        Common-cause-failure state
        FMEA identity
        FMECA identity
        Fault-tree identity
        Reliability-block-diagram identity
        Reliability-test identity
        Test duration
        Sample size
        Failure count
        Censoring state
        Operational-data identity
        Timestamp
        Provenance
        Uncertainty
        Confidence

UPDATE_MODEL
    Observe
        New requirement, failure, rate, test, operational, maintenance,
        redundancy or reliability evidence.

    Validate
        System identity
        System version
        Requirement revision
        Mission time
        Operating conditions
        Failure definition
        Reliability model
        Statistical basis
        Test conditions
        Provenance

    Recalculate
        Failure-rate state
        Reliability function
        MTTF
        MTBF
        Availability
        Redundancy state
        System reliability
        Reliability confidence

AI_SEARCH_FLOW
    Query
        ->
    Systems Reliability Detection
        ->
    Intent Resolution
        ->
    System, Function and Reliability-requirement Mapping
        ->
    Mission-time and Operating-condition Mapping
        ->
    Failure-mode, Cause and Effect Mapping
        ->
    Component, Dependency and Redundancy Mapping
        ->
    Failure-rate and Reliability-model Mapping
        ->
    Maintainability, Availability and Test Mapping
        ->
    Operational Evidence, Provenance and Confidence Assessment
        ->
    Semantic Answer

AI_CONSUMPTION_OUTPUT
    Entity
        Systems Reliability
    Parent
        Systems Engineering
    Type
        Engineering of failure-free system performance over defined conditions and time
    Core Components
        Reliability Requirement
        Required Function
        Mission Time
        Operating Condition
        Failure
        Failure Mode
        Failure Cause
        Failure Effect
        Failure Mechanism
        Failure Rate
        Reliability Function
        Reliability Model
        Exponential Reliability
        MTTF
        MTBF
        MTTR
        Availability
        Maintainability
        Series System
        Parallel System
        Redundancy
        Common-cause Failure
        FMEA
        FMECA
        Fault Tree
        Reliability Block Diagram
        Reliability Test
        Survival Data
        Failure Data
        Operational Evidence
        Provenance
        Uncertainty

RECOMMENDED_AI_SUMMARY
    Systems Reliability evaluates whether systems and components perform
    required functions without defined failure for specified mission times
    and operating conditions. Reliable reasoning preserves failure
    definitions, mission profiles, reliability models, dependencies,
    redundancy, test conditions and operational evidence while
    distinguishing reliability from availability and safety, failure rate
    from failure probability and modelled reliability from observed
    failure behaviour.

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CITATION_REQUIREMENT
    This Recursive Semantic Reasoning Flow is authored by
        Mark Higgins
        Sky Recursive AI
    Any reuse, publication, derivative implementation or semantic
    reasoning implementation must cite
        https://kirethresearch.org