Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance
Published on 13. March 2003
696 pages
978-0-471-45873-9 (ISBN)
Description
Introducing a groundbreaking companion book to a bestsellingreliability text
Reliability is one of the most important characteristicsdefining the quality of a product or system, both for themanufacturer and the purchaser. One achieves high reliabilitythrough careful monitoring of design, materials and other input,production, quality assurance efforts, ongoing maintenance, and avariety of related decisions and activities. All of these factorsmust be considered in determining the costs of production,purchase, and ownership of a product.
Case Studies in Reliability and Maintenance servesas a valuable addition to the current literature on the subject ofreliability by bridging the gap between theory and application.Conceived during the preparation of the editors' earlier work,Reliability: Modeling, Prediction, and Optimization (Wiley, 2000),this new volume features twenty-six actual case studies written bytop experts in their fields, each illustrating exactly howreliability models are applied.
A valuable companion book to Reliability: Modeling,Prediction, and Optimization, or any other textbook on thesubject, the book features:
* Case studies from fields such as aerospace, automotive, mining,electronics, power plants, dikes, computer software, weapons,photocopiers, industrial furnaces, granite building cladding,chemistry, and aircraft engines
* A logical organization according to the life cycle of a productor system
* A unified format of discussion enhanced by tools, techniques,and models for drawing one's own conclusions
* Pertinent exercises for reinforcement of ideas
Of equal value to both students of reliability theory as well asprofessionals in industry, Case Studies in Reliability andMaintenance should be required reading for anyone seekingto understand how reliability and maintenance issues can beaddressed and resolved in the real world.
Reviews / Votes
"...this book weighs in on a wide range of reliabilitytopics....highly readable..." (Test & MeasurementWorld, March 2004) "...a major aim, well served here, is to help bridge the gapbetween theory and practice...an extremely useful source..."(Short Book Reviews, 2004) "...happy to recommend this book as a valuable complement tothose that describe R&M methods..." (Quality &Reliability Engineering Int'l, Vol. 20(1), February 2004) "...suitable for a seminar type graduate course...Irecommend this book to applied and theoretical mindedreliabilists." (Journal of Statistical Computation andSimulation, September 2003) "...industry statisticians...will certainly find papers in thisbook that will be applicable to production at their facilities."(Technometrics, Vol. 45, No. 3, August 2003)More details
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Newark
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons
Illustrations
Charts: 58 B&W, 0 Color; Photos: 12 B&W, 0 Color; Screen captures: 5 B&W, 0 Color; Tables: 127 B&W, 0 Color; Graphs: 138 B&W, 0 Color
File size
6,88 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-471-45873-9 (9780471458739)
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Wallace R. Blischke | D. N. Prabhakar Murthy
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Persons
WALLACE R. BLISCHKE, holds a PhD in Statistics and serves asProfessor Emeritus at Marshall School of Business, University ofSouthern California.
D. N. PRABHAKAR MURTHY, PhD, is Professor of Engineering andOperations Management at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia,Australia. Together they have coauthored Reliability: Modeling,Prediction, and Optimization (Wiley); Warranty Cost Analysis; andProduct Warranty Handbook.
Content
Contributors.
Preface.
Introduction and Overview (Wallace R. Blischke and D. N. P.Murthy).
PART A: CASES WITH EMPHASIS ON PRODUCT DESIGN.
Space Interferometer Reliability-Based Design Evaluation (DonaldH. Ebbeler, et al.).
Confidence Intervals for Hardware Reliability Predictions (ChunKin Chan and Michael Tortorella).
Allocation of Dependability Requirements in Power Plant Design(Seppo Virtanen and Per-Erik Hagmark).
PART B: CASES WITH EMPHASIS ON DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING.
The Determination of the Design Strength of Granite Used asExternal Cladding for Buildings (Malcolm J. Faddy, etal.).
Use of Sensitivity Analysis to Assess the Effect of ModelUncertainty in Analyzing Accelerated Life Test Data (William Q.Meeker, et al.).
Virtual Qualification of Electronic Hardware (Michael Osterman,et al.).
Development of a Moisture Soak Model for Surface-Mounted Devices(Loon Ching Tang and Soon Huat Ong).
Construction of Reliable Software in Resource-ConstrainedEnvironments (Mladen A. Vouk and Anthony T . Rivers).
Modeling and Analysis of Software System Reliability (Min Xie,et al.).
Information Fusion for Damage Prediction (Nozer D. Singpurwalla,et al.).
PART C: CASES WITH EMPHASIS ON DEFECT PREDICTION AND FAILUREANALYSIS.
Use of Truncated Regression Methods to Estimate the Shelf Lifeof a Product from Incomplete Historical Data (William Q. Meeker andLuis A. Escobar).
Determining Software Quality Using COQUALMO (Sunita Chulani,et al.).
Use of Extreme Values in Reliability Assessment of CompositeMaterials (Linda C. Wolstenholme).
Expert Judgment in the Uncertainty Analysis of Dike Ring FailureFrequency (Roger Cooke and Karen Slijkhuis).
PART D: CASES WITH EMPHASIS ON MAINTENANCE ANDMAINTAINABILITY.
Component Reliability, Replacement, and Cost Analysis withIncomplete Failure Data (Nicholas A. J. Hastings).
Maintainability and Maintenance--A Case Study on MissionCritical Aircraft and Engine Components (U. Dinesh Kumar and JohnCrocker).
Photocopier Reliability Modeling Using Evolutionary Algorithms(Michael Bulmer and John Eccleston).
Reliability Model for Underground Gas Pipelines (Roger M. Cooke,et al.).
RCM Approach to Maintaining a Nuclear Power Plant (Gilles C.Zwingelstein).
Case Experience Comparing the RCM Approach to Plant Maintenancewith Modeling Approach (Xisheng Jia and Anthony H. Christer).
PART E: CASES WITH EMPHASIS ON OPERATIONS OPTIMIZATION ANDREENGINEERING.
Mean Residual Life and Optimal Operating Conditions forIndustrial Furnace Tubes (Elsayed A. Elsayed).
Optimization of Dragline Load (Peter G. A. Townson, etal.).
Ford's Reliability Improvement Process--A Case Study onAutomotive Wheel Bearings (Karl D. Majeske, et al.).
Reliability of Oil Seal for Transaxle--A Science SQCApproach at Toyota (Kakuro Amasaka and Shunji Osaki)
PART F: CASES WITH EMPHASIS ON PRODUCT WARRANTY.
Warranty Data Analysis for Assessing Product Reliability (PeterC. Sander, et al.).
Reliability and Warranty Analysis of a Motorcycle Based onClaims Data (Bermawi P. Iskandar and Wallace R. Blischke).
Index.
