book

Reliability Engineering

by Kailash C. Kapur

April 2014

Intermediate to advanced

512 pages

15h 16m

English

Wiley

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1.1 What Is Quality?1.2 What Is Reliability?1.3 Quality, Customer Satisfaction, and System Effectiveness1.4 Performance, Quality, and Reliability1.5 Reliability and the System Life Cycle1.6 Consequences of Failure1.7 Suppliers and Customers1.8 SummaryProblemsNotes
2.1 Basic Reliability Concepts2.2 Hazard Rate2.3 Percentiles Product Life2.4 Moments of Time to Failure2.5 SummaryProblems
3.1 Discrete Distributions3.2 Continuous Distributions3.3 Probability Plots3.4 SummaryProblems
4.1 What Is Six Sigma?4.2 Why Six Sigma?4.3 How Is Six Sigma Implemented?4.4 Optimization Problems in the Six Sigma Process4.5 Design for Six Sigma4.6 SummaryProblemsNotes
5.1 Product Requirements and Constraints5.2 Product Life Cycle Conditions5.3 Reliability Capability5.4 Parts and Materials Selection5.5 Human Factors and Reliability5.6 Deductive versus Inductive Methods5.7 Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis5.8 Fault Tree Analysis5.9 Physics of Failure5.10 Design Review5.11 Qualification5.12 Manufacture and Assembly5.13 Analysis, Product Failure, and Root Causes5.14 SummaryProblemsNotes
6.1 Defining Requirements6.2 Responsibilities of the Supply Chain6.3 The Requirements Document6.4 Specifications6.5 Requirements Tracking6.6 SummaryProblems

7.1 Defining the Life-Cycle Profile7.2 Life-Cycle Events7.3 Loads and Their Effects7.4 Considerations and Recommendations for LCP Development7.5 Methods for Estimating Life-Cycle Loads7.6 SummaryProblemsNotes
8.1 Capability Maturity Models8.2 Key Reliability Practices8.3 SummaryProblems
9.1 Part Assessment Process9.2 Parts Management9.3 Risk Management9.4 SummaryProblemsNotes
10.1 Development of FMMEA10.2 Failure Modes, Mechanisms, and Effects Analysis10.3 Case Study10.4 SummaryProblemsNote
11.1 Design for Reliability11.2 Design of a Tension Element11.3 Reliability Models for Probabilistic Design11.4 Example of Probabilistic Design and Design for a Reliability Target11.5 Relationship between Reliability, Factor of Safety, and Variability11.6 Functions of Random Variables11.7 Steps for Probabilistic Design11.8 SummaryProblems
12.1 Part Ratings12.2 Derating12.3 Uprating12.4 SummaryProblemsNotes
13.1 Tests during the Product Life Cycle13.2 Reliability Estimation13.3 Product Qualification and Testing13.4 Case Study: System-in-Package Drop Test Qualification13.5 Basic Statistical Concepts13.6 Confidence Interval for Normal Distribution13.7 Confidence Intervals for Proportions13.8 Reliability Estimation and Confidence Limits for Success–Failure Testing13.9 Reliability Estimation and Confidence Limits for Exponential Distribution13.10 SummaryProblems
14.1 Process Control System14.2 Control Charts14.3 Benefits of Control Charts14.4 Average Outgoing Quality14.5 Advanced Control Charts14.6 SummaryProblems
15.1 Burn-In Data Observations15.2 Discussion of Burn-In Data15.3 Higher Field Reliability without Screening15.4 Best Practices15.5 SummaryProblems
16.1 Root-Cause Analysis Processes16.2 No-Fault-Found16.3 SummaryProblems
17.1 Reliability Block Diagram17.2 Series System17.3 Products with Redundancy17.4 Complex System Reliability17.5 SummaryProblems
18.1 Conceptual Model for Prognostics18.2 Reliability and Prognostics18.3 PHM for Electronics18.4 PHM Concepts and Methods18.5 Monitoring and Reasoning of Failure Precursors18.6 Implementation of PHM in a System of Systems18.7 SummaryProblemsNotes
19.1 Product Warranties19.2 Warranty Return Information19.3 Warranty Policies19.4 Warranty and Reliability19.5 Warranty Cost Analysis19.6 Warranty and Reliability Management19.7 SummaryProblemsNotes