Bøger af B.S. Dhillon

Discusses the need for reliability, quality and safety as well as historical information, terms, and definitions. This book discusses relevant mathematics, evaluation models and methods, testing, management, and costing.

Industry recognizes the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Therefore, it is extremely important for designers and engineers to have a solid grounding in reliability engineering and keep abreast of developments and research results. Design Reliability: Fundamentals and Appl

Written by a well-known expert in reliability engineering, this book presents up-to-date information on robot reliability, safety, and related areas in a single volume, eliminating the need to consult diverse sources. It covers fundamental mathematical concepts and reliability and safety basics for readers without prior knowledge of the subject.

The medical device industry is among the fastest growing segments of the U.S. economy, and Medical Device Reliability and Associated Areas provides comprehensive coverage of the field. It covers a wide range of topics related, directly and indirectly, to reliability, maintainability, safety, and risk assessment, including human error in health care systems and software quality assurance. With emphasis on concepts rather than mathematical rigor, a multitude of examples, exercises, tables, and references, this is one resource that everyone connected to the medical device industry must have on their shelves.

This book covers the topics of maintainability, maintenance, and reliability for the first time within a single source. It discusses mechanical and human reliability as well as reliability evaluation methods. It addresses various aspects of maintainability, including tools, specific maintainability design considerations, management, and costing, and explores human factors in maintainability, maintenance engineering objectives, corrective and preventive maintenance, and reliability centered maintenance. The author offers historical aspects, terms, definitions, and useful mathematical concepts while providing examples, solutions, and problems at the end of each chapter.

A compilation of data from a wide variety of sources, this book eliminates the need to pick through journal articles, online databases, and conference proceedings to obtain information. The authors discuss medical device maintenance, human error reporting systems and models for predicting human reliability and error, patient safety, quality methods, and steps for improving quality in healthcare. Highlights include a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter containing introductory material on reliability technology, human error, and quality considered essential to understanding materials presented in subsequent chapters. The book contains examples, their solutions, and end-of-chapter problems.

This book combines computer system reliability, safety, usability, and other related topics into a single volume and to eliminate the need to consult many different and diverse sources in obtaining desired information. The topics covered are treated in such a manner that readers require no previous knowledge to understand the contents. The book contains examples along with their solutions and numerous problems at the end of each chapter to test reader comprehension. The sources of most of the material presented will be given in the reference section at the end of each chapter.

Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach presents a cradle-to-grave strategy to preserve equipment function, avoid the consequences of failures, and ensure the productive capacity of equipment. The author has gathered and integrated the latest advances in engineering maintenance to formulate practical, step-by-step plans.

The life cycle cost is the sum of all costs incurred during the life time of an item. In today¿s global economy, the procurement decisions of many engineering products are not entirely made on initial procurement costs alone but on their life cycle costs. Past experiences indicate that product ownership cost often exceeds the procurement cost. Eliminating the need to consult many different sources, this book brings together useful life cycle costing concepts for various industrial sectors. It explores the economics of life cycle costing, presents introductory engineering reliability and maintainability concepts, and includes numerous examples with solutions.

Each year a vast sum of money is spent on health care around the globe and patient safety has become a serious global public health issue. Filled with up-to-date information, this book demonstrates how to handle patient safety-related problems by using methods developed in the area of engineering. It contains a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter on introductory material on safety and human factors considered essential to understand materials presented in subsequent chapters. The author¿s presentation covers topics in such a manner that readers will require no previous knowledge to understand the concepts.

Written by a well-known expert in reliability engineering, this book presents up-to-date information on robot reliability, safety, and related areas in a single volume, eliminating the need to consult diverse sources. It covers fundamental mathematical concepts and reliability and safety basics for readers without prior knowledge of the subject. The book describes useful techniques for analyzing the reliability and safety of robot systems and includes examples with solutions, numerous problems, and extensive references.

Robots are increasingly being used in industry to perform various types of tasks. for example, in 1984, a report published by the British Robot Association indicated a robot popula tion distribution between Japan (64,600), Western Europe (20,500), and the United States (13,000).

Offers the design engineer with information on the important methods that have emerged for the design of structures, products, and components. This book presents information and ideas for improving the design engineering process in terms of quality, reliability, cost control and timeliness.

Industry recognizes the importance of system and product reliability and places emphasis on it during the design phase. This book provides the background professionals need to incorporate reliability concepts, tools, and techniques into their system planning and designs.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the medical device industry. This title covers a wide range of topics related, directly and indirectly, to reliability, maintainability, safety, and risk assessment, including human error in health care systems and software quality assurance.

This book combines computer system reliability, safety, usability, and other related topics into a single volume and to eliminate the need to consult many different and diverse sources in obtaining desired information. The topics covered are treated in such a manner that readers require no previous knowledge to understand the contents. The book contains examples along with their solutions and numerous problems at the end of each chapter to test reader comprehension. The sources of most of the material presented will be given in the reference section at the end of each chapter.

Each year a vast sum of money is spent on health care around the globe and patient safety has become a serious global public health issue. Filled with up-to-date information, this book demonstrates how to handle patient safety-related problems by using methods developed in the area of engineering. It contains a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter on introductory material on safety and human factors considered essential to understand materials presented in subsequent chapters. The author 's presentation covers topics in such a manner that readers will require no previous knowledge to understand the concepts.

Integrating coverage of transportation reliability and safety topics and concepts into a single volume, this book eliminates the need to consult a number of different resources to obtain important information. It begins with mathematical concepts and safety basics considered useful to understanding the contents of subsequent chapters. The author then covers the significance of human error in rail and transportation systems and provides material on methods used to perform reliability and safety analyses. Problems are included to test reader comprehension and examples with solutions are provided.

Covers the topics of maintainability, maintenance, and reliability. This book discusses mechanical and human reliability as well as reliability evaluation methods. It also addresses various aspects of maintainability, including tools, specific maintainability design considerations, management, and costing.

Presents a cradle-to-grave strategy to preserve equipment function, avoid the consequences of failures, and ensure the productive capacity of equipment. Moving well beyond traditional approaches, this strategy incorporates quality and safety, human error, and software maintenance considerations along with costing, reliability, and maintainability.

Cradle-to-grave analyses are becoming the norm, as an increasing amount of corporations and government agencies are basing their procurement decisions not only on initial costs but also on life cycle costs. This book deals with life cycle costing concepts and explains their application in various industrial sectors.

Provides engineers a tool for meeting the increasing problem of human error. This book offers access to information that can be applied to actual problems in the field. It includes examples and their solutions to illustrate engineering safety management at work and gives readers a view of the intensity of developments in the area.

Effective health care requires the melding of technology with human factors, and an emphasis on quality. This book builds a foundation with a chapter on mathematical concepts and another on reliability technology, human error, and quality, before exploring the interplay of the three factors.