Handbook of Performability Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xlviii

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2. Performability Engineering: An Essential Concept in the 21st Century

   • Krishna B. Misra

   Pages 1-12

3. Engineering Design: A Systems Approach

   • Krishna B. Misra

   Pages 13-24

4. A Practitioner’s View of Quality, Reliability and Safety

   • Patrick D. T. O’Connor

   Pages 25-40

5. Product Design Optimization

   • Masataka Yoshimura

   Pages 41-56

6. Constructing a Product Design for the Environment Process

   • Daniel P. Fitzgerald, Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Peter A. Sandborn, Linda C. Schmidt, Thornton H. Gogoll

   Pages 57-69

7. Dependability Considerations in the Design of a System

   • Krishna B. Misra

   Pages 71-80

8. Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability

   • Peter Sandborn, Jessica Myers

   Pages 81-103

9. The Management of Engineering

   • Patrick D. T. O’Connor

   Pages 105-115

10. Engineering Versus Marketing: An Appraisal in a Global Economic Environment

    • Hwy-Chang Moon

    Pages 117-126

11. The Performance Economy: Business Models for the Functional Service Economy

    • Walter R. Stahel

    Pages 127-138

12. Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology: A Dire Need for 21st Century Manufacturing

    • Leo Baas

    Pages 139-156

13. Quality Engineering and Management

    • Krishna B. Misra

    Pages 157-170

14. Quality Engineering: Control, Design and Optimization

    • Qianmei Feng, Kailash C. Kapur

    Pages 171-186

15. Statistical Process Control

    • V. N. A. Naikan

    Pages 187-201

16. Engineering Process Control: A Review

    • V. K. Butte, L. C. Tang

    Pages 203-223

17. Six Sigma — Status and Trends

    • U. Dinesh Kumar

    Pages 225-234

18. Computer Based Robust Engineering

    • Rajesh Jugulum, Jagmeet Singh

    Pages 235-244

19. Integrating a Continual Improvement Process with the Product Development Program

    • Vivek “Vic” Nanda

    Pages 245-251

20. Reliability Engineering: A Perspective

    • Krishna B. Misra

    Pages 253-289

The editor of the Handbook of Performability Engineering, Dr. Krishna B. Misra, a retired eminent professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, took to reliability nearly four decades ago and is a renowned scholar of reliability. Professor Misra was awarded a plaque by the IEEE Reliability Society in 1995 “in recognition of his meritorious and outstanding contributions to reliability engineering and furthering of reliability engineering education and development in India”. Upon his retirement in 2005 from IIT, Kharagpur, where he established the first ever postgraduate course on reliability engineering in India in 1982, and Reliability Engineering Centre in 1983, he launched the International Journal of Performability Engineering in 2005 and has since led the journal as its inaugural Editor-in-Chief. Two years after successfully establishing the International Journal of Performability Engineering, Prof. Misra has now taken up the responsibility of editing the Handbook of Performability Engineering, which is being published by Springer. The timely publication of this handbook necessarily reflects the changing scenario of the 21st century’s holistic view of designing, producing and using products, systems, or services which satisfy the performance requirements of a customer to the best possible extent.

• Lean
• Marketing
• Norm
• RAM
• Service
• Six Sigma
• Software
• communication
• electronics
• microelectromechanical system (MEMS)
• modeling
• optimization
• product design
• quality
• system analysis
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk
• industrial pollution prevention

From the reviews:

The 100 international contributors to this book's 76 chapters provide depth and considerable diversity to the subject... Each chapter can be read independently and includes careful definitions and reviews of major topics and good descriptions of main methods... The editor's philosophy is to provide all engineers "with a wider vision of the requirement of sustainable and dependable products, systems, and services in the 21st century." This book provides a guide and reference for many of the engineering tools needed to accomplish this... Recommended.

Choice (August 2009) (Reviewer: S. A. Batterman, University of Michigan)

"The reader has a veritable garden from which to feast from this impressive collection of chapters."
Dr William Vesely,
Manager, Risk Assessment, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA

"Clearly covers the entire canvas of performability: quality, reliability, maintainability, safety and sustainability."
Way Kuo,
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Reliability
President, City University of Hong Kong
Formally Dean of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee

"The book should be of interest for reliability researchers or instructors that need some additional material--such as examples or new trends--for intensive courses given in reliability engineering. … the technical content is impressive and the vast diversity of areas covered can be perceived as its greatest advantage; it enables, for instance, networking reliability experts to get acquainted with the mechanics of software reliability, which can be quite inspiring." (Piotr Cholda, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2009)

• RAMS Consultants, Jaipur (Rajasthan), India

  Krishna B. Misra

Professor Krishna B. Misra is principal consultant at RAMS Consultants. He has worked for the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee; the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, which he also founded; and the Reliability Engineering Centre.

In previous years Professor Misra has also been appointed Director-Grade-Scientist at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute and Director of the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology.

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