Cover CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER 1 ASSURANCE TECHNOLOGIES, PROFITS, AND MANAGING SAFETY-RELATED RISKS 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Cheaper, Better, and Faster Products 1.3 What Is System Assurance? 1.4 Key Management Responsibilities 1.4.1 Integration 1.4.2 Budget Consistent with Objectives 1.4.3 Managing Risk 1.5 Is System Assurance a Process? 1.6 System Assurance Programs References Further Reading CHAPTER 2 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL CONCEPTS 2.1 Probabilistic Designs 2.2 Probability Computations for Reliability, Safety, and Maintainability 2.2.1 Construction of a Histogram and the Empirical Distribution 2.2.2 Computing Reliability 2.2.3 Failure Rate and Hazard Function 2.3 Normal Distribution 2.4 Log Normal Distribution 2.5 Exponential Distribution 2.6 Weibull Distribution 2.7 Data Analysis with Weibull Distribution 2.8 Discrete Distributions 2.8.1 Binomial Distribution 2.8.2 Poisson Distribution 2.9 Topics for Student Projects and Theses References Further Reading CHAPTER 3 RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AND SAFETY-RELATED APPLICATIONS 3.1 Reliability Principles 3.2 Reliability in the Design Phase 3.2.1 Writing Reliability Specifications 3.2.2 Conducting Design Reviews 3.2.3 Reliability Allocation 3.2.4 Reliability Modeling 3.2.5 Reliability Prediction 3.2.6 Failure-Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis 3.2.7 Worst-Case Analysis 3.2.8 Other Analysis Techniques 3.2.9 Design Improvement Approaches 3.3 Reliability in the Manufacturing Phase 3.4 Reliability in the Test Phase 3.4.1 Reliability Growth Testing 3.4.2 Tests for Durability 3.4.3 Testing for Low Failure Rates 3.4.4 Burn-in and Screening 3.5 Reliability in the Use Phase 3.6 Reliability and Safety Commonalities 3.6.1 Common System Objective 3.6.2 Unreliability and Hazards 3.6.3 Complex Risks 3.6.4 Potential System Accidents 3.6.5 Software Reliability and Safety 3.6.6 Reliability and Safety Trade-offs 3.6.7 Reliability and Safety Misconceptions 3.7 Topics for Student Projects and Theses References Further Reading CHAPTER 4 MAINTAINABILITY ENGINEERING AND SAFETY-RELATED APPLICATIONS 4.1 Maintainability Engineering Principles 4.2 Maintainability during the Design Phase 4.2.1 Developing Maintainability Specifications 4.2.2 Design Review for Maintainability 4.2.3 Maintainability Analysis 4.2.4 FMECA for Maintainability 4.2.5 Maintainability Prediction 4.2.6 Life-Cycle Cost Analysis 4.2.7 Design for Accessability 4.2.8 Design for Ease of Maintenance 4.2.9 Design for MM of Testing 4.3 Maintainability in the Manufacturing Stage 4.3.1 Maintainability for Existing Equipment 4.3.2 Maintainability for New Equipment 4.4 Maintainability in the Test Stage 4.4.1 Prerequisites for Maintainability Tests 4.4.2 Tests for Inherent Equipment Downtime 4.4.3 Tests for Human Variations 4.4.4 Maintenance Level Tests 4.5 Maintainability in the Use Stage 4.5.1 Prediction and Reduction of Limited-Life Items 4.5.2 Monitoring and Predicting Operational Availability 4.5.3 Minimizing Support Costs 4.6 Maintainability and System Safety 4.6.1 Remote Maintenance Safety and Security 4.6.2 System Health Monitoring and Maintenance 4.6.3 Using Models to Develop Maintenance Diagnostics and Monitoring 4.6.4 Hazard Analysis in Support of Maintenance 4.7 Topics for Student Projects and Theses References Further Reading CHAPTER 5 SYSTEM SAFETY ENGINEERING 5.1 System Safety Principles 5.1.1 System Safety Process 5.1.2 Risk Assessment 5.1.3 Technical Risk Analysis 5.1.4 Residual Risk 5.1.5 Emergency Preparedness 5.2 System Safety in Design 5.2.1 Criteria for a Safe Design 5.2.2 Safety Engineering Tasks 5.2.3 Preliminary Hazard Analysis 5.2.4 Subsystem Hazard Analysis 5.2.5 Fault-Tree Analysis 5.2.6 Cut Set Analysis 5.2.7 Failure-Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis 5.2.8 Maintenance Engineering Safety Analysis 5.2.9 Event Trees 5.2.10 Operating and Support Ha.
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The Second Edition features new content, examples, methods, techniques, and best practicesAssurance Technologies Principles and Practices is based on the assertion that safety is not a cost, but an excellent investment. According to the authors, more than sixty percent of problems in complex systems arise from incomplete, vague, and poorly written specifications.
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