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Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems
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Seventh Edition
By
David Smith, BSc, PhD, CEng, FIEE, FIQA, HonFSaRS, MIGasE., Independent Consultant, Technis, Tonbridge, U.K.
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.
Audience
Manufacturing & management cluster. Industrial engineers in most disciplines, with focuses on maintenance planning, safety & systems engineering
in process industries plus transportation & energy generation sectors. The only practical guide for reliability & maintenance engineers.
Secondary readership of mechanical engineering students taking options in maintenance, reliability, risk, management or design.
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
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Paperback, 368 pages, publication date: APR-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6694-7
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6694-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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