Bringing together business and engineering to reliability analysisWith manufactured products exploding in numbers and complexity,reliability studies play an increasingly critical role throughout aproduct's entire life cycle-from design to post-sale support.Reliability: Modeling, Prediction, and Optimization presents aremarkably broad framework for the analysis of the technical andcommercial aspects of product reliability, integrating concepts andmethodologies from such diverse areas as engineering, materialsscience, statistics, probability, operations research, andmanagement. Written in plain language by two highly respectedexperts in the field, this practical work provides engineers,operations managers, and applied statisticians with bothqualitative and quantitative tools for solving a variety ofcomplex, real-world reliability problems. A wealth of examples andcase studies accompanies:
* Comprehensive coverage of assessment, prediction, and improvementat each stage of a product's life cycle
* Clear explanations of modeling and analysis for hardware rangingfrom a single part to whole systems
* Thorough coverage of test design and statistical analysis ofreliability data
* A special chapter on software reliability
* Coverage of effective management of reliability, product support,testing, pricing, and related topics
* Lists of sources for technical information, data, and computerprograms
* Hundreds of graphs, charts, and tables, as well as over 500references
* PowerPoint slides are available from the Wiley editorialdepartment.
Wallace R. Blischke
Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Qualität u. Zuverlässigkeit Qualität, Produktivität u. Zuverlässigkeit Quality & Reliability Quality, Productivity & Reliability Reliabilität Statistics Statistik Statistische Analyse
This book provides a comprehensive overview of both qualitative andquantitative aspects of reliability. Mathematical and statisticalconcepts related to reliability modeling and analysis are presentedalong with important bibliography and a listing of resources whichincludes journals, reliability standards, other publications, anddatabases. The coverage of individual topics is not always deep,but this should be a valuable reference for any engineer orstatisticial working in reliability. (Short Book Reviews, Vol.20,No. 3, December 2000)
"...this should be a valuable reference for any engineer orstatistician working in reliability." (Short Book Reviews, Vol. 20,No. 3, December 2000)
This book presents a remarkably broad framework for the analysis ofthe technical and commercial aspects of product reliability....Written by two highly respected experts in the field, thispractical work provides engineers, operations managers, and appliedstatisticians with both qualitative and quantitative tools forsolving a variety of complex, real-world reliability problems.(Zentralblatt Math, Volume 945, No 20, 2000)
"...a comprehensive overview..." (Short Book Reviews, December2000)
"...an excellent textbook for an advanced course in biostatisticsand also an indispensable reference for biostatisticians andepidemiologists" (Short Book Reviews, December 2000)
"...an excellent book, distinguished by excellence of exposition,breadth and comprehensiveness of topical overage, relevance, numberand importance of examples, depth of references, and quality ofexercises...will become one of the standard references onreliability...so comprehensive...it would provide material for morethan a two-semester graduate sequence...will find a warm welcome inthe best graduate programs. I strongly recommend it."(Technometrics, Vol. 43, No. 4, November 2001)
"I would recommend this book to practitioners and as a graduatelevel book." (Journal of the American Statistical Association,December 2001)
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