Analogies between Engineering and Biological Systems from Reliability Engineering Point of View: Some Thoughts in the New AI Era

Abstract

This article aims to establish an analogy between engineering systems and biological systems by focusing on some reliability and statistical models and concepts. Since reliability is by definition concerned with the future health and behavior of a system, reliability models are also considered to have potential applications for the human organism. In fact, this potential already exists through the overlap and intersection between reliability theory and survival analysis. In this context, in this article, some reliability models and concepts that have not been discussed before will be adapted to a human organism, taking into account today's data-driven processes and artificial intelligence-based developments.