Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years.
For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described, realistic, and illustrative examples and case studies add new insight and assistance. The author uses his 40 years of experience to create a comprehensive and detailed guide to the field, also providing an excellent description of reliability and risk computation concepts.
The book is organized into five parts. Part One covers reliability parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety technology, presenting a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability, and safety. Part Two deals with the interpretation of failure rates, while Part Three focuses on the prediction of reliability and risk.
Part Four discusses design and assurance techniques, review and testing techniques, reliability growth modeling, field data collection and feedback, predicting and demonstrating repair times, quantified reliability maintenance, and systematic failures, while Part 5 deals with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management, product liability, and safety legislation.
1. Cover - p. i 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Preface - p. iv 6. Acknowledgements - p. xx 7. Part 1: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs - p. xxi 8. Chapter 1: The History of Reliability and Safety Technology - p. xxi 9. Chapter 2: Understanding Terms and Jargon - p. 13 10. Chapter 3: A Cost-Effective Approach to Quality, Reliability and Safety - p. 30 11. Part 2: Interpreting Failure Rates - p. 39 12. Chapter 4: Realistic Failure Rates and Prediction Confidence - p. 39 13. Chapter 5: Interpreting Data and Demonstrating Reliability - p. 57 14. Chapter 6: Variable Failure Rates and Probability Plotting - p. 72 15. Part 3: Predicting Reliability and Risk - p. 85 16. Chapter 7: Basic Reliability Prediction Theory - p. 85 17. Chapter 8: Methods of Modeling - p. 104 18. Chapter 9: Quantifying the Reliability Models - p. 136 19. Chapter 10: Risk Assessment (QRA) - p. 158 20. Part 4: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability - p. 181 21. Chapter 11: Design and Assurance Techniques - p. 181 22. Chapter 12: Design Review, Test and Reliability Growth - p. 196 23. Chapter 13: Field Data Collection and Feedback - p. 208 24. Chapter 14: Factors Influencing Down Time - p. 220 25. Chapter 15: Predicting and Demonstrating Repair Times - p. 243 26. Chapter 16: Quantified Reliability Centered Maintenance - p. 258 27. Chapter 17: Systematic Failures, Especially Software - p. 267 28. Part 5: Legal, Management and Safety Considerations - p. 289 29. Chapter 18: Project Management and Competence - p. 289 30. Chapter 19: Contract Clauses and Their Pitfalls - p. 301 31. Chapter 20: Product Liability and Safety Legislation - p. 315 32. Chapter 21: Major Incident Legislation - p. 325 33. Chapter 22: Integrity of Safety-Related Systems - p. 338 34. Chapter 23: A Case Study: The Datamet Project - p. 351 35. Chapter 24: A Case Study: Gas Detection System - p. 358 36. Chapter 25: A Case Study: Pressure Control System - p. 364 37. Chapter 26: Helicopter Incidents and Risk Assessment - p. 371 38. Appendix 1: Glossary - p. 377 39. Appendix 2: Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution - p. 388 40. Appendix 3: Microelectronic Failure Rates - p. 395 41. Appendix 4: General Failure Rates - p. 397 42. Appendix 5: Failure Mode Percentages - p. 406 43. Appendix 6: Human Error Probabilities - p. 409 44. Appendix 7: Fatality Rates - p. 413 45. Appendix 8: Answers to Exercises - p. 416 46. Appendix 9: Bibliography - p. 426 47. Appendix 10: Scoring Criteria for BETAPLUS Common Cause Model - p. 428 48. Appendix 11: Example of HAZOP - p. 434 49. Appendix 12: HAZID Checklist - p. 438 50. Appendix 13: Markov Analysis of Redundant Systems - p. 441 51. Appendix 14: Calculating the GDF - p. 448 52. Index - p. 450 53. Technis - p. 454
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years.
For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described, realistic, and illustrative examples and case studies add new insight and assistance. The author uses his 40 years of experience to create a comprehensive and detailed guide to the field, also providing an excellent description of reliability and risk computation concepts.
The book is organized into five parts. Part One covers reliability parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety technology, presenting a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability, and safety. Part Two deals with the interpretation of failure rates, while Part Three focuses on the prediction of reliability and risk.
Part Four discusses design and assurance techniques, review and testing techniques, reliability growth modeling, field data collection and feedback, predicting and demonstrating repair times, quantified reliability maintenance, and systematic failures, while Part 5 deals with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management, product liability, and safety legislation.
1. Cover - p. i 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. ii 5. Preface - p. iv 6. Acknowledgements - p. xx 7. Part 1: Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs - p. xxi 8. Chapter 1: The History of Reliability and Safety Technology - p. xxi 9. Chapter 2: Understanding Terms and Jargon - p. 13 10. Chapter 3: A Cost-Effective Approach to Quality, Reliability and Safety - p. 30 11. Part 2: Interpreting Failure Rates - p. 39 12. Chapter 4: Realistic Failure Rates and Prediction Confidence - p. 39 13. Chapter 5: Interpreting Data and Demonstrating Reliability - p. 57 14. Chapter 6: Variable Failure Rates and Probability Plotting - p. 72 15. Part 3: Predicting Reliability and Risk - p. 85 16. Chapter 7: Basic Reliability Prediction Theory - p. 85 17. Chapter 8: Methods of Modeling - p. 104 18. Chapter 9: Quantifying the Reliability Models - p. 136 19. Chapter 10: Risk Assessment (QRA) - p. 158 20. Part 4: Achieving Reliability and Maintainability - p. 181 21. Chapter 11: Design and Assurance Techniques - p. 181 22. Chapter 12: Design Review, Test and Reliability Growth - p. 196 23. Chapter 13: Field Data Collection and Feedback - p. 208 24. Chapter 14: Factors Influencing Down Time - p. 220 25. Chapter 15: Predicting and Demonstrating Repair Times - p. 243 26. Chapter 16: Quantified Reliability Centered Maintenance - p. 258 27. Chapter 17: Systematic Failures, Especially Software - p. 267 28. Part 5: Legal, Management and Safety Considerations - p. 289 29. Chapter 18: Project Management and Competence - p. 289 30. Chapter 19: Contract Clauses and Their Pitfalls - p. 301 31. Chapter 20: Product Liability and Safety Legislation - p. 315 32. Chapter 21: Major Incident Legislation - p. 325 33. Chapter 22: Integrity of Safety-Related Systems - p. 338 34. Chapter 23: A Case Study: The Datamet Project - p. 351 35. Chapter 24: A Case Study: Gas Detection System - p. 358 36. Chapter 25: A Case Study: Pressure Control System - p. 364 37. Chapter 26: Helicopter Incidents and Risk Assessment - p. 371 38. Appendix 1: Glossary - p. 377 39. Appendix 2: Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution - p. 388 40. Appendix 3: Microelectronic Failure Rates - p. 395 41. Appendix 4: General Failure Rates - p. 397 42. Appendix 5: Failure Mode Percentages - p. 406 43. Appendix 6: Human Error Probabilities - p. 409 44. Appendix 7: Fatality Rates - p. 413 45. Appendix 8: Answers to Exercises - p. 416 46. Appendix 9: Bibliography - p. 426 47. Appendix 10: Scoring Criteria for BETAPLUS Common Cause Model - p. 428 48. Appendix 11: Example of HAZOP - p. 434 49. Appendix 12: HAZID Checklist - p. 438 50. Appendix 13: Markov Analysis of Redundant Systems - p. 441 51. Appendix 14: Calculating the GDF - p. 448 52. Index - p. 450 53. Technis - p. 454
