Quality and Reliability of Technical Systems: Theory, Practice, Management - Hardcover

Alessandro Birolini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540633103 ISBN 13: 9783540633105

Publisher: Springer Verlag, 1997

Synopsis

High reliability, maintanability, and safety are expected fro complex equipment and systems. This book presents state-of-the-art methods and procedures used for cost and time effective quality and reliability assurance during the design and production of equipment and systems. It is based on more than 20 years experience gained by the author in research and industry. The book covers theory, practice, and management aspects and addresses the needs of scientists, system-oriented engineers, engineers in development and production and project and quality assurance managers. The second edition has been completely updated revised and includes modern concepts such as Total Quality Management (TQM) and Concurrent Engineering.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book shows how to build in, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability & availability of components, equipment, systems. It presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice, and is based on the author's 30 years experience in this field, half in industry and half as Professor of Reliability Engineering at the ETH, Zurich. The structure of the book allows rapid access to practical results. Besides extensions to cost models and approximate expressions, new in this edition are investigations on common cause failures, phased-mission systems, availability demonstration and estimation, confidence limits at system level, trend tests for early failures or wearout, as well as a review of maintenance strategies, an introduction to Petri nets & dynamic FTA, and a set of problems for home-work. Methods and tools are given in a way that they can be tailored to cover different reliability requirement levels and be used for safety analysis as well. This book is a textbook establishing a link between theory and practice, with a large number of tables, figures, and examples to support the practical aspects.

From a book review to 4th Ed. (Rel. Newsletter, Aug. 2004): All in all, Professor Birolini has given readers an excellent instructional tool and desktop reference. It is extremely well written. The span of topics makes the coverage of some topics necessarily brief. Professor Birolini presents much of the non-statistical information in a manner that could be understood easily by engineering and program managers as well as reliability experts. He discusses the statistical topics in the proper amount of detail to ensure at least a good basic understanding. Tables, illustrations, and examples amply support the text.
Kenneth P. LaSala, Ph.D.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 3540633103
• ISBN 13: 9783540633105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 502