Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers
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Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Fourth edition presents the techniques in the analysis and assessment of reliability, maintainability, safety, and risk factors in engineering design. The book contains chapters that are devoted to the discussion of reliability parameters and costs; the history of reliability and safety technology; cost-effective approaches to quality, reliability and safety; interpretation of failure rates; and prediction of reliability and risk. Risk assessment, design and assurance techniques, project management, and product liability are tackled as well. Industrial engineers, contract administrators, project managers, designers, and professionals responsible for the design and implementation of engineering projects will find the book invaluable.
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgments
Part One Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs
1 The History of Reliability and Safety Technology
1.1 Failure Data
1.2 Hazardous Failures
1.3 Reliability and Risk Prediction
1.4 Achieving Reliability
1.5 Major Activities
1.6 Contractual Pressures
2 Understanding Terms and Jargon
2.1 Defining Failure and Failure Modes
2.2 Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures
2.3 Interrelationships of Terms
2.4 The Bathtub Distribution
2.5 Down Time and Repair Time
2.6 Availability
2.7 Hazard and Risk-Related Terms
2.8 Choosing the Appropriate Parameter
3 A cost-Effective Approach to Quality, Reliability and Safety
3.1 The Cost of Quality
3.2 Reliability and Cost
3.3 Costs and Safety
Part Two Interpreting Failure Rates
4 Realistic Failure Rates
4.1 Data Accuracy
4.2 Microelectronics Data
4.3 Overall Data
4.4 Sources of Failure Rate Data
5 Interpreting Data and Demonstrating Reliability
5.1 The Four Cases
5.2 Inference and Confidence Levels
5.3 The Chi-Square Test
5.4 Double-Sided Confidence Limits
5.5 Summarizing the Chi-Square Test
5.6 Reliability Demonstration
5.7 Sequential Testing
5.8 Setting up Demonstration Tests
Exercises
6 Variable Failure Rates and Probability Plotting
6.1 The Weibull Distribution
6.2 Using the Weibull Method
6.3 More Complex Cases of the Weibull Distribution
6.4 Continuous Processes
Exercises
Part Three Predicting Reliability and Risk
7 Essential Reliability Theory
7.1 Why Predict?
7.2 Probability Theory
7.3 Reliability of Series Systems
7.4 Redundancy Rules
7.5 General Features of Redundancy
Exercises
8 Methods of Modeling
8.1 Markov Analysis
Exercises
8.2 Fault Tree Analysis
8.3 Common Mode Effects
8.4 Cause Consequence Diagrams
8.5 Simulation
8.6 Human Factors
8.7 FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis)
9 Risk Assessment
9.1 Frequency and Consequence
9.2 Hazard Identification
9.3 Factors to Quantify
Part Four Achieving Reliability and Maintainability
10 Design and Assurance Techniques
10.1 Specifying and Allocating the Requirement
10.2 Stress Analysis
10.3 Environmental Stress Protection
10.4 Failure Mechanisms
10.5 Complexity and Parts
10.6 Burn-in and Screening
10.7 Maintenance Strategies
11 Design Review and Test
11.1 Review Techniques
11.2 Categories of Testing
11.3 Reliability Growth Modeling
12 Field Data Collection and Feedback
12.1 Reasons for Data Collection
12.2 Information and Difficulties
12.3 Spreadsheets and Databases
12.4 Analysis and Presentation of Results
12.5 Examples of Failure Report Forms
13 Factors Influencing Down Time
13.1 Key Design Areas
13.2 Maintenance Strategies and Handbooks
14 Predicting and Demonstrating Repair Times
14.1 Prediction Methods
14.2 Demonstration Plans
15 Software Quality/Reliability
15.1 Programmable Devices
15.2 Software Failures
15.3 Software Failure Modeling
15.4 Software Quality Assurance
15.5 Modern/Formal Methods
15.6 Software Checklists
Part Five Legal and Management Considerations
16 Project Management
16.1 Setting Objectives and Specifications
16.2 Planning, Feasibility and Allocation
16.3 Programme Activities
16.4 Responsibilities
16.5 Standards and Guidance Documents
17 Contract Clauses and their Pitfalls
17.1 Essential Areas
17.2 Other Areas
17.3 Pitfalls
17.4 Penalties
17.5 Subcontracted Reliability Assessments
17.6 Example
18 Product Liability and Safety Legislation
18.1 The General Situation
18.2 Strict Liability
18.3 The Consumer Protection Act 1987
18.4 Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
18.5 Insurance and Product Recall
19 Safety-Critical Systems and Major Incidents
19.1 History of Major Incidents
19.2 Major Incident Legislation
19.3 Safety-Critical Systems
19.4 Current Guidance
20 A case Study
20.1 Introduction
20.2 The DATAMET Concept
20.3 Formation of the Project Group
20.4 Reliability Requirements
20.5 First Design Review
20.6 Design and Development
20.7 Syndicate Study
20.8 Hints
Appendix 1 Glossary
Appendix 2 Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution
Appendix 3 Microelectronics Failure Rates
Appendix 4 General Failure Rates
Appendix 5 Failure Mode Percentages
Appendix 6 Human Error Rates
Appendix 8 Answers to Exercises
Appendix 7 Fatality Rates
Appendix 9 Bibliography
Appendix 10 Software Packages
Appendix 11 Simulation Source Code
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 334
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 1993
- Published: February 9, 1993
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9781483105147
About the Author
David J Smith
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