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Vol. 45, No. 3 • May-June 2009
In the Spotlight

Redundancy for Safety

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About the Author

Vito Faraci is a mathematician by education, and an electrical engineer by trade. He has 20 years of experience with qualitative and quantitative analyses of reliability, built-in-test and safety-related events. He has also served as a reliability and Markov analysis consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration and commercial airlines. He has given lectures and seminars in the United States and Canada on the subject of calculating probability of failure of electrical and mechanical components and systems. Faraci has also served as an adjunct math professor at New York Institute of Technology.

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