Reliability and Maintainability in Perspective: Technical, management and commercial aspects

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
How Important are Reliability and Maintainability?....Pages 3-7
A Realistic Approach is Cost Conscious....Pages 8-15
Understanding Terms and Jargon....Pages 16-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
Design and Assurance for Reliability and Maintainability....Pages 31-39
Design Factors Influencing Down Time....Pages 40-49
Maintenance Philosophy and Down Time....Pages 50-58
Analysis of Failure Mode and Stress....Pages 59-68
Design and Qualification Testing....Pages 69-75
Quality Assurance and Automatic Test Equipment....Pages 76-88
Maintenance Handbooks....Pages 89-94
Making Use of Field Feedback....Pages 95-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Interpreting Data and Demonstrating Reliability....Pages 105-116
Interpreting Variable Failure Rate Data....Pages 117-124
Demonstrating Maintainability....Pages 125-128
Reliability Prediction....Pages 129-151
Prediction of Repair Times....Pages 152-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Project Management....Pages 169-172
Contract Clauses and their Pitfalls....Pages 173-182
Product Liability....Pages 183-188
A Case Study....Pages 189-200
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Software and Reliability....Pages 201-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-243