Practical Application of Reliability and Maintainability Concepts to Generating Station Design

This paper illustrates the practical application of reliabiity concepts to generating station design. The necessity for increasing the reliability and maintainability of large generating units is viewed as a total industry problem which must be solved by both the utilities and the equipment suppliers. Techniques which have received extensive application in military and space programs are presented and reliability and maintainability is considered as a primary element in unit design.