Preface
After three editions, in 1993, Reliability, Maintainability in Perspective became Reliability, Maintainability and Risk. The 6th edition, in 2001, included my PhD studies into common cause failure and into the correlation between predicted and achieved field reliability. Once again it is time to update the material as a result of developments in the functional safety area.
The techniques that are explained apply to both reliability and safety engineering and are also applied to optimizing maintenance strategies. The collection of techniques concerned with reliability, availability, maintainability and safety are often referred to as RAMS.
A single defect can easily cost £100 in diagnosis and repair if it is detected early in production, ...
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