Reliability, maintainability, and safety for engineers / B.S. Dhillon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dhillon, B. S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reliability (Engineering).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Engineered products and systems are an important element of world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of products and systems around the globe. This book integrates and combines three of those topics to meet today's needs for the engineers working in these fields"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

About the author

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1. Background

1.2. Reliability, maintainability, and safety facts, figures, and examples

1.3. Terms and definitions

1.4. Useful sources for obtaining information on reliability, maintainability, and safety

1.5. Scope of the book

1.6. Problems

References

Chapter 2: Reliability, maintainability, and safety mathematics

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Arithmetic mean and mean deviation

2.3. Boolean algebra laws

2.4. Probability definition and properties

2.5. Mathematical definitions

2.6. Probability distributions

2.7. Solving first-order differential equations with Laplace transforms

2.8. Problems

Chapter 3: Reliability, maintainability, and safety basics

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Bathtub hazard rate curve

3.3. General reliability formulas

3.4. Reliability networks

3.5. The importance, purpose, and results of maintainability efforts

3.6. Maintainability versus reliability

3.7. Maintainability functions

3.8. The role of engineers in regard to safety

3.9. Safety management principles and organization tasks for product safety

3.10. Product hazard classifications

3.11. Accident causation theories

3.12. Problems

Chapter 4: Methods for performing reliability, maintainability, and safety analysis

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Fault tree analysis (FTA)

4.3. Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA)

4.4. Markov method

4.5. Cause and effect diagram

4.6. Probability tree analysis

4.7. Hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP)

4.8. Technique of operations review (TOR)

4.9. Job safety analysis (JSA)

4.10. Interface safety analysis (ISA)

4.11. Problems

Chapter 5: Reliability management

5.1. Introduction

5.2. General management reliability program responsibilities and guiding force-related facts for the general management for an effective reliability program

5.3. A procedure for developing reliability goals and useful guidelines for developing reliability programs

5.4. Reliability and maintainability management-related tasks in the product life cycle

5.5. Reliability management documents and tools

5.6. Reliability engineering department responsibilities and a reliability engineer's tasks

5.7. Pitfalls in reliability program management and useful rules for reliability professionals

5.8. Problems

Chapter 6: Human and mechanical reliability

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Human error occurrence facts and figures

6.3. Human error classifications and causes

6.4. Human stress-performance effectiveness and stress factors

6.5. Human performance reliability in continuous time and mean time to human error (MTTHE) measure

6.6. Human reliability analysis methods

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-34057-5

1-000-05030-0

9780429340574

OCLC:

1147951241