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1Failure rate — is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. It is often denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda) and is important in reliability engineering. The failure rate of a system usually… …
2Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points — (HACCP) is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that addresses physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a means of prevention rather than finished product inspection. HACCP is used in the food industry to …
3Failure causes — are defects in design, process, quality, or part application, which are the underlying cause of a failure or which initiate a process which leads to failure. Where failure depends on the user of the product or process, then human error must be… …
4Failure Mode and Effects Analysis — FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis oder auch deutsch: Fehlermöglichkeits und Einflussanalyse oder kurz Auswirkungsanalyse) sowie FMECA (Failure Mode and Effects and Criticality Analysis) sind analytische Methoden der Zuverlässigkeitstechnik …
5Hazard (disambiguation) — A hazard is an event posing a threat to life, health, property or environment. Hazard may also refer to:* Chemical hazard, a property of a material dangerous to human life or health * A hazard, for instance a natural hazard, a danger or source of …
6Hazard ratio — The hazard ratio in survival analysis is the effect of an explanatory variable on the hazard or risk of an event. For a less technical definition than is provided here, consider hazard ratio to be an estimate of relative risk and see the… …
7hazard — hazardable, adj. hazarder, n. hazardless, adj. /haz euhrd/, n. 1. an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards. 2. something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of… …
8Failure mode and effects analysis — A failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a procedure for analysis of potential failure modes within a system for classification by severity or determination of the effect of failures on the system. It is widely used in manufacturing… …
9Failure — or hazard Any electric power supply equipment or facility failure or other event that, in the judgment of the reporting entity, constitutes a hazard to maintaining the continuity of the bulk electric power supply system such that a load… …
10hazard — haz•ard [[t]ˈhæz ərd[/t]] n. 1) something causing danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of the big city[/ex] 2) the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty 3) spo a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an… …
