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The only recent book to cover "Stage 3" warranty management, linking strategic and operational aspects for manufactured products. Shows how to make warranty management an effective tool for enhancing customer satisfaction.

This book provides an overview of reliability performance and specification in new product development. The methodology it presents will be of use to engineers involved in product design and development.

This book synthesizes significant recent advances in the use of risk analysis in many government agencies and private corporations, providing a Bayesian foundation for framing probabilistic problems and performing inference on these problems.

This one-volume, in-depth introduction to the computational methodologies available for rapid detection of flaws in structures covers techniques, algorithms and results in a way that facilitates their direct application, and includes a number of case studies.

This book presents a state-of-the-art treatment of complex multi-channel system reliability assessment. It provides the requisite tools, techniques and algorithms required for designing, evaluating and optimizing ultra-reliable redundant systems.

Reliability and safety are issues that must be addressed throughout the life of engineering systems. This book presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations. It highlights recent advances and offers case studies.

Finkelstein's systematic study focuses on the broad subject of reliability theory, and specifically, on failure rate (hazard rate, force of mortality) modeling and its generalizations to random environment systems, as well as to repairable systems.

This book provides a framework for the justification of the dependability of a computer-based system and explores fundamental aspects of safety evaluation, such as the nature of claims and various ways to deal with different types of uncertainty.

This is a survey of new research topics in reliability theory and optimization techniques in reliability engineering. The author is considered the world leader in maintenance reliability engineering, having worked in this area for over thirty years.

Gives a comprehensive description of the universal generating function technique and its applications in binary and multi-state system reliability analysis. This monograph is of interest to those interested in system reliability, performance analysis and optimization in industrial, electrical and nuclear engineering.

This book combines information on safety in mining with methods that can be used to preserve human life. It covers a range of topics, including: human factors and error, equipment safety, offshore industry and programmable electronic mining system safety.

Chapter 2 summarizes the results of repair maintenance, which is the most basic maintenance in reliability. The repair maintenance of systems such as the one-unit system and multiple-unit redundant systems is treated.

The mining industry makes use of various types of complex and sophisticated equipment, for which reliability, maintainability and safety has become an important issue. This book covers these three important topics.

Presents the theories and methods of reliability and maintenance, emphasising multi-component systems. Aimed at postgraduates, researchers and practitioners, this title covers: imperfect repair, economic dependence and opportunistic maintenance, failure and repair, software reliability and maintenance cost, and warranty cost considerations.

This book is a methodological approach to the goal-based safety design procedure that will soon be an international requirement. This is the first single volume book to describe how to satisfy safety goals by modern reliability engineering. Its focus is on the quantitative aspects of the international standards using a methodological approach.

This is the first monograph which presents shock and damage models in reliability from introduction to application. The practical applications of shock and damage models are demonstrated using case studies. Reliability engineers and managers of maintenance work will find this book a broad reference.

This book presents a risk management framework designed to achieve better decisions and more desirable outcomes. It presents an in-depth discussion of some fundamental principles of risk management related to the use of expected values, uncertainty handling, and risk acceptance criteria.

Each industry, from robotics to health care, power generation to software, has its own tailored reliability and quality principles, methods, and procedures.

This fresh outlook on planning, managing and leading major projects in an international setting is not a critique of project management per say, but simply acknowledges the fact that, no matter how well we manage projects, overruns and deviations still occur.

This book is an introduction to software reliability engineering and a survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems.

Companies are being forced to process and manage increasingly differentiated products with shorter life cycles, low volumes and reduced customer delivery times. This book introduces an original and integrated idea of maintenance: maintenance for productivity.

"The Maintenance Management Framework" describes and reviews the concept, process and framework of modern maintenance management of complex systems; It will be bought by engineers and professionals involved in maintenance management, maintenance engineering, operations management, quality, etc.

Human errors contribute significantly to most transportation crashes: approximately 70 to 90 percent of crashes are the result of human error. This book examines human reliability across all types of transportation systems.

This valuable resource deals with the problem of quantifying the complexity of a proceduralized task; in other words, a task written as a procedure. It proposes a systematic framework that is able to quantify the complexity of proceduralized tasks.

This text provides a foundation and a theoretical basis for managing risk to an acceptable level under the real-world constraint of limited resources. The principal focus is on the development of guidance for establishing rational standards of practice.

This book gives a detailed overview of all aspects of quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. It also identifies weaknesses and areas that need further development.

This book discusses the value of the worst-scenario approach for improving earthquake resilience in buildings and nuclear reactor facilities. The approach is applied to modeling of inelastic structures, and passive-controlled and base-isolated buildings.

This book examines the range of information technology aspects in nuclear power plants (NPPs). It details the statistical methods and economic and safety studies that are currently used to evaluate their shortcomings.

With technology advancing so rapidly, quality control in engineering is always a top priority. Eschewing the mathematics involved in favor of a practical approach, this text provides valuable insights into topics ranging from policy implementation to auditing.

This book surveys reliability, availability, maintainability and safety (RAMS) analyses of various engineering systems. It highlights their role throughout the lifecycle of engineering systems and explains how RAMS activities contribute to their efficient and economic design and operation. The book discusses a variety of examples and applications of RAMS analysis, including:¿ software products;¿ electrical and electronic engineering systems;¿ mechanical engineering systems;¿ nuclear power plants;¿ chemical and process plants and¿ railway systems. The wide-ranging nature of the applications discussed highlights the multidisciplinary nature of complex engineering systems. The book provides a quick reference to the latest advances and terminology in various engineering fields, assisting students and researchers in the areas of reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety engineering.