Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers,
Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques
to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35
years.
For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in
this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described,
realistic, and illustrative examples and case studies add new insight
and assistance. The author uses his 40 years of experience to create a
comprehensive and detailed guide to the field, also providing an
excellent description of reliability and risk computation concepts.
The book is organized into five parts. Part One covers reliability
parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety
technology, presenting a cost-effective approach to quality,
reliability, and safety. Part Two deals with the interpretation of
failure rates, while Part Three focuses on the prediction of reliability
and risk.
Part Four discusses design and assurance techniques, review and testing
techniques, reliability growth modeling, field data collection and
feedback, predicting and demonstrating repair times, quantified
reliability maintenance, and systematic failures, while Part 5 deals
with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management,
product liability, and safety legislation.
