Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems, 7/e

Description:

For over 30 years, Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been recognised as a leading text for reliability and maintenance professionals. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been updated to remain the first choice for professional engineers and students. The seventh edition incorporates new material on important topics including software failure, the latest safety legislation and standards, product liability, integrity of safety-related systems, as well as delivering an up-to-date review of the latest approaches to reliability modelling, including cutsec ranking. It is also supported by new detailed case studies on reliability and risk in practice.

 

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 The history of reliability and safety technology
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 ratesand probability plotting
Chapter 7 Essential reliability theory
Chapter 8 Methods of modelling (New chapter)
Chapter 9 Quantifying the reliability models (New chapter)
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 Software quality/reliability
Chapter 18 Project management
Chapter 19 Contract clauses
Chapter 20 Product liability and safety legislation
Chapter 21 Major incident legislation
Chapter 22 Integrity of safety-related systems
Chapter 23 Case Studies
Appendices