Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems

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Elsevier, 29 jun 2011 - 436 pagina's

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using reliability techniques to identify and eliminate potential failures early in the design cycle. The focus is on techniques known as RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety-integrity).

The book is organized into five parts. Part 1 on reliability parameters and costs traces the history of reliability and safety technology and presents a cost-effective approach to quality, reliability, and safety. Part 2 deals with the interpretation of failure rates, while Part 3 focuses on the prediction of reliability and risk. Part 4 discusses design and assurance techniques; review and testing techniques; reliability growth modeling; field data collection and feedback; predicting and demonstrating repair times; quantified reliability maintenance; and systematic failures. Part 5 deals with legal, management and safety issues, such as project management, product liability, and safety legislation.

  • 8th edition of this core reference for engineers who deal with the design or operation of any safety critical systems, processes or operations
  • Answers the question: how can a defect that costs less than $1000 dollars to identify at the process design stage be prevented from escalating to a $100,000 field defect, or a $1m+ catastrophe
  • Revised throughout, with new examples, and standards, including must have material on the new edition of global functional safety standard IEC 61508, which launches in 2010
 

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Inhoudsopgave

Part 2 Interpreting Failure Rates
39
Part 3 Predicting Reliability and Risk
85
Part 4 Achieving Reliabilityand Maintainability
177
Part 5 Legal Management and Safety Considerations
285
Appendix 1 Glossary
363
Appendix 2 Percentage Points of theChiSquare Distribution
373
Appendix 3 Microelectronics Failure Rates
381
Appendix 4 General Failure Rates
383
Appendix 7 Fatality rates
399
Appendix 8 Answers to Exercises
401
Bibliography
411
Appendix 10 Scoring Criteria for BETAPLUS Common Cause Model
413
Appendix 11 Example of HAZOP
419
Appendix 12 HAZID Checklist
423
Appendix 13 Markov Analysis of Redundant Systems
427
Index
433

Appendix 5 Failure mode percentages
391
Appendix 6 Human Error Probabilities
395
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Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers
David J. Smith
Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2011

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

2011 Elsevier Ltd activities ALARP analysis applied assessment assumed Ball valve bathtub curve calculated Chapter checklist circuit Common Mode Failure considered constant failure rate Corporate Manslaughter cost curve Cutsets defined demonstration described devices diagnostic distribution document electronic environmental event example factors fail failure mode fatality fault tree fault tree analysis field Figure FMEA hardware hazards HAzOP human error involves loss of supply Maintainability and Risk maintenance method module MTBF MTTR number of failures operating output package parameters preventive maintenance procedures proof test proof-test interval provides quantified RAMS random range redundancy reliability and maintainability reliability growth reliability prediction repair replacement result safety-integrity safety-related sample Score Section spares specific standard supplier system failure Table target task techniques temperature test equipment unavailability unit valve wearout Weibull Weibull distribution

Over de auteur (2011)

Dr. David J. Smith is the Proprietor of Technis Consultancy. He has written numerous books on Reliability and Safety over the last 40 years. His FARADIP database has become widely used, and his other software packages are also used throughout the profession. His PhD thesis was on the subject of reliability prediction and common cause failure. He contributed to the first drafting of IEC 61508 and chairs the IGEM panel which produces SR/15 (the gas industry safety related guidance). David is past President of the Safety and Reliability Society.

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelReliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems
AuteurDavid J. Smith
Editie8
UitgeverElsevier, 2011
ISBN0080969038, 9780080969039
Lengte436 pagina's
  
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