Overview

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using reliability techniques to identify and eliminate potential failures early in the design cycle. The focus is on techniques known as RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety-integrity). The book is organized into five parts. Part 1 on reliability parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety technology and presents a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability, and safety. Part 2 deals with the interpretation of failure rates, while Part 3 focuses on the prediction of reliability and risk. Part 4 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. Part 5 deals with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management, product liability, and safety legislation.

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Author:   David J. Smith (Independent Consultant, Technis, Tonbridge, UK)
Publisher:   Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint:   Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Edition:   8th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.860kg
ISBN:  

9780080969022

ISBN 10:   008096902
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   29 June 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Understand risk of hazardous failure Chapter 2 Understanding terms and jargon Chapter 3 A cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety. Chapter 4 Realistic failure rates and prediction confidence. Chapter 5 Interpreting data and demonstrating reliability Chapter 6 Variable failure rates and probability plotting Chapter 7 Essential reliability theory Chapter 8 Methods of modelling Chapter 9 Quantifying the reliability models Chapter 10 QRA Chapter 11 Design and assurance techniques Chapter 12 Design review and test Chapter 13 Field data collection and feedback Chapter 14 Factors influencing down time Chapter 15 Predicting and demonstrating repair times Chapter 16 QRCM Chapter 17 Safety Critical System Software quality/reliability Chapter 18 Integrity of safety critical systems: IEC 61508 (2010) Chapter 19 Project management Chapter 20 Contract clauses Chapter 21 Product liability and safety legislation Chapter 22 Major incident legislation Chapter 23 Integrity of safety-related systems Chapter 24 Case Studies

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Dr. David J Smith BSc, PhD, CEng, FIEE, HonFSaRS, FIQA, MIGasE, has been directly concerned with reliability, safety and software quality for 30 years. He has written a number of books on the subject as well as numerous papers. His PhD thesis was on the subject of reliability prediction accuracy and common cause failure. He chairs the IGasE panel which develops its guidelines on safety-related systems (now in its third edition). He has also made contributions to IEC 61508.

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