Basic principles of Statistical Quality Control, Control charts for variables and attributes. Run Length, In-control and Out-of-Control Average Run Length. False Alarm Rate. Control Limits. Central Line. Phase I and Phase II. Characteristic curve. Shewhart-type control charts. CUSUM control charts. EWMA control charts. Basic principles and characteristics of coherent reliability structures. Minimal Path sets. Minimal cut sets. Failure rate. Mean Time to Failure. Structural reliability and Reliability as a function of time. Aging properties of systems lifetimes. Markov processes.