Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management, 2nd Edition

Title: Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management, 2nd Edition
Author: Clyde F. Coombs, Richard Y. Moss, W. Grant Ireson
ISBN: 0070127506 / 9780070127500
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 816
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 1996
Availability: 45-60 days

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Responsible For Reliability? Look No Further! Finally, a working tool that delivers expert guidance on all aspects of product reliability. W. Grant Ireson and Clyde F Coombs, Jr.'s new Second Edition of Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management gives you the specific engineering, management, and mathematics data you need to design and manufacture more reliable electronic and mechanical devices as well as complete systems. You'll find proven industry practices for defining and achieving reliability goals--real how-to information, not theoretical generalities. You also get new methods for determining overall product reliability. . .the latest design techniques for extending a product's life cycle. . .tested strategies for incorporating reliability into new product development. . .and more.

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Contributors
Preface to the Second Edition

Chapter 1 : Introduction, Definitions, and Relationships
Chapter 2 : The Role of Management in Reliability
Chapter 3 : Managing Reliability as a Process
Chapter 4 : Economics of Reliability
Chapter 5 : Design for Reliability
Chapter 6 : Failure Modes and Effects (FMEA) and Fault-Tree Analysis (FTA) (Success-Tree Analysis--STA)
Chapter 7 : Reliability Specification and Goal Setting
Chapter 8 : Concurrent Engineering
Chapter 9 : Human-Centered Design
Chapter 10 : Reliability Information Collection and Analysis
Chapter 11 : Designing Experiments to Measure and Improve Reliability
Chapter 12 : Accelerated Testing
Chapter 13 : Failure Analysis System--Root Cause and Corrective Action
Chapter 14 : Physics of Failure
Chapter 15 : Maintainability and Reliability
Chapter 16 : Component Reliability
Chapter 17 : Thermal Management and Reliability of Electronics
Chapter 18 : Mechanical Stress and Analysis
Chapter 19 : Mechanical Reliability
Chapter 20 : Design for Mechanical Reliability
Chapter 21 : System Reliability
Chapter 22 : Software Reliability and the Development Process
Chapter 23 : Supplier Reliability and Quality Assurance
Chapter 24 : Techniques of Estimating Reliability at Design Stage
Chapter 25 : Mathematical and Statistical Methods and Models in Reliability and Life Studies
Chapter 26 : Life Distributions and Concepts
Chapter 27 : Graphical Analyses of Reliability Data

Appendix A : Tables and Charts
Appendix B : Charts
Appendix C : Reliability Standards and Specifications
Index