This book provides the guidelines and fundamental methods of estimation and calculation needed by maintainability engineers. It also covers the management of maintainability efforts, including issues of organizational structure, cost, and planning processes. Questions and problems conclude each chapter.

The effective and interrelated functioning of system reliability technology, human factors, and quality play an important role in the appropriate, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of health care. Simply put, it can save you time, money, and more importantly, lives. Over the years a large number of journal and conference proceedings articles on these topics have been published, but there are only a small number of books written on each individual topic, and virtually none that brings the pieces together into a unified whole.

A comprehensive presentation of modern maintenance engineering concept s and practices that includes major recent developments this book prov ides a cradle-to-grave strategy for preserving equipment, avoiding the consequences of failure, and ensuring the productive capacity of equi pment. It covers key maintenance-engineering topics from management an d control, preventative and corrective maintenance to new concepts suc h as reliability-centered maintenance, human error, quality and safety, and maintainability. The author addresses maintenance mathematics an d costing and emphasizes...

Offers the design engineer with information on the important methods that have emerged for the design of structures, products, and components. This book presents information and ideas for improving the design engineering process in terms of quality, reliability, cost control and timeliness.