ABSTRACT

To meet the needs of today, engineered products and systems are an important element of the 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. This book provides a single volume that considers reliability, maintainability, and safety when designing new products and systems. Examples along with their solutions are placed at the end of each chapter to test readers’ comprehension. The book is written in a manner that readers do not need any previous knowledge of the subject, and many references are provided.

This book is also useful to many people, including design engineers, system engineers, reliability specialists, safety professionals, maintainability engineers, engineering administrators, graduate and senior undergraduate students, researchers, and instructors.

chapter chapter one|12 pages

Introduction

chapter chapter two|18 pages

Reliability, maintainability, and safety mathematics

chapter chapter three|30 pages

Reliability, maintainability, and safety basics

chapter chapter five|12 pages

Reliability management

chapter chapter six|22 pages

Human and mechanical reliability

chapter chapter seven|16 pages

Reliability testing and growth

chapter chapter eight|12 pages

Maintainability management

chapter chapter nine|10 pages

Human factors in maintainability

chapter chapter ten|14 pages

Maintainability testing and demonstration

chapter chapter eleven|10 pages

Safety management

chapter chapter twelve|10 pages

Safety costing

chapter chapter thirteen|14 pages

Human factors in safety

chapter chapter fourteen|14 pages

Software and robot safety