Product Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability Handbook

Michael Pecht

ISBN 10: 0849398797 / ISBN 13: 9780849398797

Published by Taylor & Francis Inc Apr 2009, 2009

Neuware - To ensure product reliability, an organization must follow certain practices during the product development process that impact reliability. The second edition of this bestselling volume helps professionals to identify the shortcomings in the reliability practices of their organizations and empowers them to take actions to overcome them. The book focuses on identifying failure mechanisms and teaches traditional maintainability and supportability tasks. Edited by a mechanical engineer known for his work in product development, reliability, packaging, and supply chain efficiency, this invaluable resource is now updated to include new optimization methods. Seller Inventory # 9780849398797

Synopsis:

To ensure product reliability, an organization must follow specific practices during the product development process that impact reliability. The second edition of the bestselling Product Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability Handbook helps professionals identify the shortcomings in the reliability practices of their organizations and empowers them to take actions to overcome them.

The book begins by discussing product effectiveness and its related functions, presents the mathematical theory for reliability, and introduces statistical inference concepts as ways to analyze probabilistic models from observational data. Later chapters introduce basic types of probability distributions; present the concepts of confidence interval; focus on reliability assessment; and examine software reliability, quality, and safety.

Use FMMEA to identify failure mechanisms

Reflecting the latest developments in the field, the book introduces a new methodology known as failure modes, mechanisms, and effects analysis (FMMEA) to identify potential failure mechanisms. Shifting to a practical stance, the book delineates steps that must be taken to develop a product that meets reliability objectives. It describes how to combine reliability information from parts and subsystems to compute system level reliability, presents methods for evaluating reliability in fault-tolerant conditions, and describes methods for modeling and analyzing failures of repairable products.

The text discusses reliability growth, accelerated testing, and management of a continuous improvement program; analyzes the influence of reliability on logistics support requirements; shows how to assess overall product effectiveness; and introduces the concepts of process capability and statistical process control techniques.

New Topics in the Second Edition Include:

• Failure Modes, Mechanisms, and Effects Analysis
• Confidence Interval on Reliability Metrics and their Relationships with Measures of Product Quality
• Process Control and Process Capability and their Relationship with Product Reliability
• System Reliability, including Redundancy

About the Author: Michael Pecht

Bibliographic Details

Title: Product Reliability, Maintainability, and ...
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Apr 2009
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Buch
Condition: Neu
Edition: 2nd Edition