can use the help which reliability engineers can provide. We hope that this book will help bridge the chasm between the designers and maintainers on the one hand, and the reliability engineers on the other. In doing so, we can help businesses utilize their assets effectively, safely, and profitably.
1 The Practice of Management, page 38, first published by William Heinemann in 1955. Currentedition is published by HarperBusiness, 1993, ISBN 0887306136.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.The Production and Distribution Process
1.3Manufacturing and Service Industries
1.5Impact of Efficiency on Resources
1.6Maintenance—The Questions to Address
2.2Functional Block Diagrams (FBD)
2.3Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
2.5Prevention of Failures or Mitigation of Consequences?
3.Reliability Engineering for the Maintenance Practitioner
3.2Probability Density Function
3.4Hazard Rates and Failure Patterns
3.6The Special Case of the Constant Hazard Rate
3.10Deterministic and Probabilistic Distributions
4.Failure, Its Nature and Characteristics
4.7Limits to the Application of Condition Monitoring
