Handbook of Performability Engineering

ISBN-13: 9781848001305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 1316 str.

Krishna B. Misra

Opis

The editor of the Handbook of Performability Engineering, Dr. Krishna B. Misra, a retired eminent professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, took to reliability nearly four decades ago and is a renowned scholar of reliability. Professor Misra was awarded a plaque by the IEEE Reliability Society in 1995 in recognition of his meritorious and outstanding contributions to reliability engineering and furthering of reliability engineering education and development in India . Upon his retirement in 2005 from IIT, Kharagpur, where he established the first ever postgraduate course on reliability engineering in India in 1982, and Reliability Engineering Centre in 1983, he launched the International Journal of Performability Engineering in 2005 and has since led the journal as its inaugural Editor-in-Chief. Two years after successfully establishing the International Journal of Performability Engineering, Prof. Misra has now taken up the responsibility of editing the Handbook of Performability Engineering, which is being published by Springer. The timely publication of this handbook necessarily reflects the changing scenario of the 21st century s holistic view of designing, producing and using products, systems, or services which satisfy the performance requirements of a customer to the best possible extent."

Recenzje

From the reviews:

The 100 international contributors to this book's 76 chapters provide depth and considerable diversity to the subject... Each chapter can be read independently and includes careful definitions and reviews of major topics and good descriptions of main methods... The editor's philosophy is to provide all engineers "with a wider vision of the requirement of sustainable and dependable products, systems, and services in the 21st century." This book provides a guide and reference for many of the engineering tools needed to accomplish this... Recommended.

Choice (August 2009) (Reviewer: S. A. Batterman, University of Michigan)

"The reader has a veritable garden from which to feast from this impressive collection of chapters."
Dr William Vesely,
Manager, Risk Assessment, Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA

"Clearly covers the entire canvas of performability: quality, reliability, maintainability, safety and sustainability."
Way Kuo,
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Reliability
President, City University of Hong Kong
Formally Dean of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee

"The book should be of interest for reliability researchers or instructors that need some additional material--such as examples or new trends--for intensive courses given in reliability engineering. ... the technical content is impressive and the vast diversity of areas covered can be perceived as its greatest advantage; it enables, for instance, networking reliability experts to get acquainted with the mechanics of software reliability, which can be quite inspiring." (Piotr Cholda, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2009)

Spis treści

Performability Engineering: An Essential Concept in 21st Century Krishna B. Misra Engineering Design: A System’s Approach Krishna B. Misra A Practitioner’s View of Quality, Reliability and Safety Patrick D. T. O’ Connor Product Design Optimization Masataka Yoshimura Constructing a Product Design for Environmental Process Daniel P. Fitzgerald, Jeffery W. Herrmann, Peter A. Sandborn, Linda C. Schmidt and H. Gogoll Thornton Dependability Considerations in Design of a System Krishna B. Misra Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability Peter Sandborn and Jessica Myers The Management of Engineering Patrick D. T. O’ Connor Engineering versus Marketing: An Appraisal in Global Economic Environment Hwy-Chang Moon The Performance Economy: Business Models for the Functional Service Economy Walter R. Stahel Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology: A Dire Need for 21st Century Manufacturing Leo Baas Quality Engineering and Management Krishna B. Misra Quality Engineering: Control, Design and Optimization Qianmei Feng and Kailash C. Kapur Statistical Process Control V. N. A. Naikan Engineering Process Control: A Review V. K. Butte and L. C. Tang Six Sigma: Status and Trends U. Dinesh Kumar Computer Based Robust Engineering Rajesh Jugulum and Jagmeet Singh Integrating a Continual Improvement Process with the Product Development Process Vivek 'Vic' Nanda Reliability Engineering: A Perspective Krishna B. Misra Tampered Failure Rate Load-Sharing Systems: Status and Perspectives Suprasad V. Amari, Krishna B. Misra and Hoang Pham O(kn) Algorithms for Analyzing Repairable andNon-Repairable k-out-of-n:G Systems Suprasad V. Amari, Ming J. Zuo, and Glenn Dill Imperfect Coverage Models: Status and Trends Suprasad V. Amari, Albert Myers, Antoine Rauzy, and Kishor Trivedi Reliability of Phased-Mission Systems Liudong Xing and Suprasad V. Amari Reliability of Semi-Markov Systems in Discrete Time: Modeling and Estimation Vlad Stefan Barbu and Nikolaos Limnios Binary Decision Diagrams for Reliability Studies Antoine B. Rauzy Field Data Analysis for Repairable Systems: Status and Industry Trends David Trindade and Swami Nathan Reliability Degradation of Mechanical Components and Systems Liyang Xie, and Zheng Wang New Models and Measures for Reliability of Multi-state Systems Yung-wen Liu, and Kailash C. Kapur Universal Generating Function in Analysis of Multi-State Systems Gregory Levitin New Approaches for Reliability Design in Multi-State Systems Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez New Approaches to System Analysis and Design: A Review Hong-Zhong Huang, Liping He Optimal System Reliability Design Bhupesh Lad, M. S. Kulkarni, and K. B. Misra MIP: A Versatile Tool for Reliability Design of a System S. K. Chaturvedi and K. B. Misra Reliability Demonstration in Product Validation Testing Andre Kleyner Quantitative Accelerated Life Testing and Data Analysis Pantelis Vassiliou, Adamantios Mettas and Tarik El-Azzouzi HALT and HASS Overview: The New Quality and Reliability Paradigm Gregg K. Hobbs Modeling Count Data in Risk and Reliability Engineering Seth D. Guikema and Jeremy P. Coffelt Fault Tree Analysis Liudong Xing and Suprasad V. Amari Common Cause Failure Modeling: Status and Trends Per Ho

O autorze

Professor Krishna B. Misra is principal consultant at RAMS Consultants. He has worked for the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee; the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, which he also founded; and the Reliability Engineering Centre.

In previous years Professor Misra has also been appointed Director-Grade-Scientist at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute and Director of the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology.

Blurb

Performability engineering provides us with the framework to consider both dependability and sustainability for the optimal design of products, systems or services. Whereas dependability is an aggregate of one or more of the attributes of survivability (such as quality, reliability, and maintainability etc.) and safety, and the present designs based on dependability and life cycle costs cannot be really called truly optimal since these attributes are strongly influenced by the design, raw materials, fabrication, techniques and manufacturing processes employed, and their control and usage. Therefore, sustainability, characterized by dematerilization, energy and waste minimization, disposability, reuse and recycling and other the environmental considerations which help in clean production, must be considered along with dependability. Design of 21^st Century products, systems and services must conform to performability designs. More so when world resources are on the decline and to keep pace with rising population, the increased volume of production is bound to affect the world’s environmental health further.

As of now, dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting the international trade in the free market environment and thereby deciding the economic prosperity of a nation. However, the internalization of the hidden costs of environment preservation will have to be accounted for, sooner or later, in order to be able to produce sustainable products and systems in the long run. These factors cannot be ignored any more and must not be considered in isolation of each other.

The Handbook of Performability Engineering considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.