Reliability, maintainability, and risk : practical methods for engineers / David J. Smith.

Contents;

Part one: Understanding reliability parameters and costs
1. The history of reliability and safety technology
2. Understanding terms and jargon
3. A cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety

Part two: Interpreting failure rates
4. Realistic failures rates and prediction confidence
5. Interpreting data and demonstration reliability
6. Variable failure rates and probability plotting

Part three: Predicting reliability and risk
7. Essential reliability theory
8. Methods of modelling
9. Quantifying the reliability models
10. Risk assessment

Part four: Achieving reliability and maintainability
11. Design and assurance techniques
12. Design review and test
13. Field data collection and feedback
14. Factorings influencing down time
15. Predicting and demonstrating repair times
16. Quantified reliability centered maintenance
17. Software quality/reliability

Part five: Legal, management and safety considerations
18. Project management
19. Contract clauses and their pitfalls
20. Product liability and safety legislation
21. Major incident legislation
22. Integrity of safety-related systems
23. A case study: The datamet project

Includes bibliographical references and index.