Handbook of Performability Engineering

Front Matter....Pages i-xlviii
Performability Engineering: An Essential Concept in the 21st Century....Pages 1-12
Engineering Design: A Systems Approach....Pages 13-24
A Practitioner’s View of Quality, Reliability and Safety....Pages 25-40
Product Design Optimization....Pages 41-56
Constructing a Product Design for the Environment Process....Pages 57-69
Dependability Considerations in the Design of a System....Pages 71-80
Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability....Pages 81-103
The Management of Engineering....Pages 105-115
Engineering Versus Marketing: An Appraisal in a Global Economic Environment....Pages 117-126
The Performance Economy: Business Models for the Functional Service Economy....Pages 127-138
Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology: A Dire Need for 21st Century Manufacturing....Pages 139-156
Quality Engineering and Management....Pages 157-170
Quality Engineering: Control, Design and Optimization....Pages 171-186
Statistical Process Control....Pages 187-201
Engineering Process Control: A Review....Pages 203-223
Six Sigma — Status and Trends....Pages 225-234
Computer Based Robust Engineering....Pages 235-244
Integrating a Continual Improvement Process with the Product Development Program....Pages 245-251
Reliability Engineering: A Perspective....Pages 253-289
Tampered Failure Rate Load-Sharing Systems: Status and Perspectives....Pages 291-308
 O ( kn ) Algorithms for Analyzing Repairable and Non-repairable k -out-of- n :G Systems....Pages 309-320
Imperfect Coverage Models: Status and Trends....Pages 321-348
Reliability of Phased-mission Systems....Pages 349-368
Reliability of Semi-Markov Systems in Discrete Time: Modeling and Estimation....Pages 369-380
Binary Decision Diagrams for Reliability Studies....Pages 381-396
Field Data Analysis for Repairable Systems: Status and Industry Trends....Pages 397-412
Reliability Degradation of Mechanical Components and Systems....Pages 413-429
New Models and Measures for Reliability of Multi-state Systems....Pages 431-445
A Universal Generating Function in the Analysis of Multi-state Systems....Pages 447-464
New Approaches for Reliability Design in Multistate Systems....Pages 465-476
New Approaches to System Analysis and Design: A Review....Pages 477-498
Optimal Reliability Design of a System....Pages 499-519
MIP: A Versatile Tool for Reliability Design of a System....Pages 521-531
Reliability Demonstration in Product Validation Testing....Pages 533-542
Quantitative Accelerated Life-testing and Data Analysis....Pages 543-557
HALT and HASS Overview: The New Quality and Reliability Paradigm....Pages 559-578
Modeling Count Data in Risk Analysis and Reliability Engineering....Pages 579-594
Fault Tree Analysis....Pages 595-620
Common Cause Failure Modeling: Status and Trends....Pages 621-640
A Methodology for Promoting Reliable Human-System Interaction....Pages 641-665
Risk Analysis and Management: An Introduction....Pages 667-681
Accident Analysis of Complex Systems Based on System Control for Safety....Pages 683-697
Probabilistic Risk Assessment....Pages 699-718
Risk Management....Pages 719-742
Risk Governance: An Application of Analytic-deliberative Policy Making....Pages 743-754
Maintenance Engineering and Maintainability: An Introduction....Pages 755-772
System Maintenance: Trends in Management and Technology....Pages 773-787
Maintenance Models and Optimization....Pages 789-805
Replacement and Preventive Maintenance Models....Pages 807-823
Effective Fault Detection and CBM Based on Oil Data Modeling and DPCA....Pages 825-841
Sustainability: Motivation and Pathways for Implementation....Pages 843-856
Corporate Sustainability: Some Challenges for Implementing and Teaching Organizational Risk Management in a Performability Context....Pages 857-874
Towards Sustainable Operations Management Integrating Sustainability Management into Operations Management Strategies and Practices....Pages 875-904
Indicators for Assessing Sustainability Performance....Pages 905-918
Sustainable Technology....Pages 919-931
Biotechnology: Molecular Design in a Globalizing World....Pages 933-942
Nanotechnology: A New Technological Revolution in the 21st Century....Pages 943-952
An Overview of Reliability and Failure Mode Analysis of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)....Pages 953-966
Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon Nanofilm....Pages 967-984
Applications of Performability Engineering Concepts....Pages 985-996
Reliability in the Medical Device Industry....Pages 997-1009
A Tasks-based Six Sigma Roadmap for Healthcare Services....Pages 1011-1024
Status and Recent Trends in Reliability for Civil Engineering Problems....Pages 1025-1046
Performability Issues in Wireless Communication Networks....Pages 1047-1067
Performability Modeling and Analysis of Grid Computing....Pages 1069-1086
Status and Trends in the Performance Assessment of Fault Tolerant Systems....Pages 1087-1106
Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Electronics....Pages 1107-1122
RAMS Management of Railway Tracks....Pages 1123-1145
Cost-Benefit Optimization Including Maintenance for Structures by a Renewal Model....Pages 1147-1161
Reliability and Price Assessment and the Associated Risk Control for Restructured Power Systems....Pages 1163-1178
Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 1179-1192
Software Reliability and Fault-tolerant Systems: An Overview and Perspectives....Pages 1193-1208
Application of the Lognormal Distribution to Software Reliability Engineering....Pages 1209-1225
Early-stage Software Product Quality Prediction Based on Process Measurement Data....Pages 1227-1237
On the Development of Discrete Software Reliability Growth Models....Pages 1239-1255
Epilogue....Pages 1257-1269
Back Matter....Pages 1271-1316