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Reliability Engineering

Theory and Practice

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Alessandro Birolini

    1. ETH Zurich, Lugano, Switzerland

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  • 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
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Basic Concepts, Quality and Reliability Assurance of Complex Equipment and Systems

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    Pages 1-26

  3. Reliability Analysis During the Design Phase

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    Pages 27-80

  4. Qualification Tests for Components and Assemblies

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    Pages 81-113

  5. Maintainability Analysis

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    Pages 114-134

  6. Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality

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    Pages 135-157

  7. Reliability and Availability of Repairable Systems

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    Pages 158-238

  8. Statistical Quality Control and Reliability Tests

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    Pages 239-276

  9. Quality and Reliability Assurance During the Production Phase

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    Pages 277-296

  10. Terms and Definitions

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    Pages 297-310

  11. Quality and Reliability Standards

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    Pages 311-314

  12. Definition and Realization of Quality and Reliability Requirements

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    Pages 315-328

  13. Checklists for Design Reviews

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    Pages 329-333

  14. Requirements for Quality Data Reporting Systems

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    Pages 334-336

  15. Basic Probability Theory

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    Pages 337-383

  16. Basic Stochastic Process Theory

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    Pages 384-434

  17. Basic Mathematical Statistics

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    Pages 435-464

  18. Tables and Charts

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    Pages 465-475

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 476-502
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About this book

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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  • ETH Zurich, Lugano, Switzerland

    Alessandro Birolini

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