Reliability engineering is a rapidly evolving discipline, whose purpose is to develop methods and tools to predict, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability, maintainability, and availability of components, equipment, and systems, as well as to support development and production engineers in building in reliability and maintainability. To be cost and time effective, reliability engineering has to be coordinated with quality assurance activities, in agreement with Total Quality Management (TQM) and Concurrent Engineering efforts. To build in reliability and maintainability into complex equipment or systems, failure rate and failure mode analyses have to be performed early in the development phase and be supported by design guidelines for reliability, maintainability, and software quality as well as by extensive design reviews. Before production, qualification tests on prototypes are necessary to ensure that quality and reliability targets have been met. In the production phase, processes need to be selected and monitored to assure the required quality level. For many systems, availability requirements have also to be satisfied. In these cases, stochastic processes can be used to investigate and optimize availability. including logistical support as well. Software often plays a dominant role, requiring specific quality assurance activities. This book presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice. It is based on over 25 years experience of the author in this field, half of which was in industry and half as Professor for reliability engineering at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich).

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by Alessandro Birolini

Springer Spektrum. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Steinkopff. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Springer Nature

Third Edition., Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, 1999

Springer Nature, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013

Germany, Germany

3, 20130417

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Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Basic Concepts, Quality and Reliability Assurance of Complex Equipment and Systems....Pages 1-26
Reliability Analysis During the Design Phase....Pages 27-80
Qualification Tests for Components and Assemblies....Pages 81-113
Maintainability Analysis....Pages 114-134
Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality....Pages 135-157
Reliability and Availability of Repairable Systems....Pages 158-238
Statistical Quality Control and Reliability Tests....Pages 239-276
Quality and Reliability Assurance During the Production Phase....Pages 277-296
Terms and Definitions....Pages 297-310
Quality and Reliability Standards....Pages 311-314
Definition and Realization of Quality and Reliability Requirements....Pages 315-328
Checklists for Design Reviews....Pages 329-333
Requirements for Quality Data Reporting Systems....Pages 334-336
Basic Probability Theory....Pages 337-383
Basic Stochastic Process Theory....Pages 384-434
Basic Mathematical Statistics....Pages 435-464
Tables and Charts....Pages 465-475
Back Matter....Pages 476-502

This book presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and in practice. It is based on over 25 years of industrial and academic experience of the author in this field. The book gives answers to the questions how to build in, predict, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability, maintainability, availability, and how to specify and realize reliability targets. To name just a few of the useful and new information, it provides design guidelines for reliability, maintainability, and software quality, as well as checklists for design reviews. Aspects of safety and risk management as well as trends in quality management systems (ISO 9001-2000) are outlined. Many results are presented in tables and graphs. More than 100 practice oriented examples illustrate methods and tools.

Basic Concepts, Quality and Reliability Assurance of Complex Equipment and Systems
Reliability Analysis during the Design Phase
Qualification Tests for Components and Assemblies
Maintainability Analysis
Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality
Reliability and Availability of Repairable Systems
Statistical Quality Control and Reliability Tests
Quality and Reliability Assurance during the Production Phase
Appendix
Acronyms
References
Index.

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