Affordable Reliability Engineering : Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Sustainability & Logistical Support

Title: Affordable Reliability Engineering : Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Sustainability & Logistical Support
Author: Daniel Sillivant, William R. Wessels
ISBN: 1138747602 / 9781138747609
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 372
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2017
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks

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How Can Reliability Analysis Impact Your Company’s Bottom Line?

While reliability investigations can be expensive, they can also add value to a product that far exceeds its cost. Affordable Reliability Engineering: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Sustainability & Logistical Support shows readers how to achieve the best cost for design development testing and evaluation and compare options for minimizing costs while keeping reliability above specifications. The text is based on the premise that all system sustainment costs result from part failure. It examines part failure in the design and sustainment of fielded parts and outlines a design criticality analysis procedure that reflects system design and sustainment.

Achieve the Best Cost for Life-Cycle Sustainment

Providing a framework for managers and engineers to develop and implement a reliability program for their organizations, the authors present the practicing professional with the tools needed to manage a system at a high reliability at the best cost. They introduce analytical methods that provide the methodology for integrating part reliability, failure, maintainability, and logistic math models. In addition, they include examples on how to run reliability simulations, highlight tools that are commercially available for such analysis, and explain the process required to ensure a design will meet specifications and minimize costs in the process.

This text:

  • Demonstrates how to use information gathered from reliability investigations
  • Provides engineers and managers with an understanding of a reliability engineering program so that they can perform reliability analyses
  • Seeks to resolve uncertainty and establish the value of reliability engineering

Affordable Reliability Engineering: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Sustainability & Logistical Support focuses on reliability-centered maintenance and is an ideal resource for reliability engineers and managers. This text enables reliability professionals to determine the lowest life-cycle costs for part selection, design configuration options, and the implementation of maintenance practices, as well as spare parts strategies, and logistical resources.

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  • Provides practical applications for transferring knowledge to a specific project
  • Equips the practicing engineer and manager with tools for meeting reliability requirements at optimal cost
  • Includes examples on how to run reliability simulations and surveys available software tools

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Preface

Chapter 1 :
Scope of Reliability-Based Life-Cycle Economical Analysis
Chapter 2 : Reliability Analysis for Part Design
Chapter 3 : Reliability Analysis for System Sustainment
Chapter 4 : Engineering Economic Analysis
Chapter 5 : Reliability-Based Logistical Economic Analysis
Chapter 6 : Life-Cycle Economic Analysis
Chapter 7 : Reliability-Centered Maintenance
Chapter 8 : Reliability Database
Chapter 9 : Reliability Simulation and Analysis
Chapter 10 : A : Reliability Failure Math Models and Reliability Functions
Chapter 11 : B : Maintainability Math Models and Maintainability Functions
Chapter 12 : Logistics Downtime Functions
Chapter 13 : Engineering Economics Functions

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