Birolini Reliability Engineering

Theory and Practice
Third Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-3-662-03792-8
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 502 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Engineering (R0)

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).

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birolini, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Basic Concepts, Quality and Reliability Assurance of Complex Equipment and Systems.- 2 Reliability Analysis During the Design Phase.- 3 Qualification Tests for Components and Assemblies.- 4 Maintainability Analysis.- 5 Design Guidelines for Reliability, Maintainability, and Software Quality.- 6 Reliability and Availability of Repairable Systems.- 7 Statistical Quality Control and Reliability Tests.- 8 Quality and Reliability Assurance During the Production Phase.- A1 Terms and Definitions.- A2 Quality and Reliability Standards.- A3 Definition and Realization of Quality and Reliability Requirements.- A4 Checklists for Design Reviews.- A5 Requirements for Quality Data Reporting Systems.- A6 Basic Probability Theory.- A7 Basic Stochastic Process Theory.- A8 Basic Mathematical Statistics.- A9 Tables and Charts.- Acronyms.- References.