Preface |
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About the author |
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1.2 Reliability, maintainability, and safety facts, figures, and examples |
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1.3 Terms and definitions |
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1.4 Useful sources for obtaining information on reliability, maintainability, and safety |
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Chapter 2 Reliability, maintainability, and safety mathematics |
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2.2 Arithmetic mean and mean deviation |
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2.4 Probability definition and properties |
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2.5 Mathematical definitions |
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2.6 Probability distributions |
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2.7 Solving first-order differential equations with Laplace transforms |
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Chapter 3 Reliability, maintainability, and safety basics |
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3.2 Bathtub hazard rate curve |
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3.3 General reliability formulas |
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3.5 The importance, purpose, and results of maintainability-efforts |
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3.6 Maintainability versus reliability |
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3.7 Maintainability functions |
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3.8 The role of engineers in regard to safety |
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3.9 Safety management principles and organization tasks for product safety |
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3.10 Product hazard classifications |
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3.11 Accident causation theories |
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Chapter 4 Methods for performing reliability, maintainability, and safety analysis |
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4.2 Fault tree analysis (FTA) |
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4.3 Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA) |
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4.5 Cause and effect diagram |
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4.6 Probability tree analysis |
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4.7 Hazard and operability analysis (HAZOP) |
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4.8 Technique of operations review (TOR) |
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4.9 Job safety analysis (JSA) |
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4.10 Interface safety analysis (ISA) |
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Chapter 5 Reliability management |
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5.2 General management reliability program responsibilities and guiding force-related facts for the general management for an effective reliability program |
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5.3 A procedure for developing reliability goals and useful guidelines for developing reliability programs |
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5.4 Reliability and maintainability management-related tasks in the product life cycle |
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5.5 Reliability management documents and tools |
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5.6 Reliability engineering department responsibilities and a reliability engineer's tasks |
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5.7 Pitfalls in reliability program management and useful rules for reliability professionals |
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Chapter 6 Human and mechanical reliability |
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6.2 Human error occurrence facts and figures |
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6.3 Human error classifications and causes |
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6.4 Human stress-performance effectiveness and stress factors |
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6.5 Human performance reliability in continuous time and mean time to human error (MTTHE) measure |
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6.6 Human reliability analysis methods |
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6.7 Mechanical failure modes and general causes |
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6.8 Safety factors and safety margin |
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6.9 Stress--strength interference theory modeling |
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Chapter 7 Reliability testing and growth |
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7.2 Reliability test classifications |
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7.4 Accelerated life testing |
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7.5 Confidence interval estimates for mean time between failures |
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7.6 Reliability growth program and reliability growth process evaluation approaches |
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7.7 Reliability growth models |
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Chapter 8 Maintainability management |
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8.2 Maintainability management functions during the product life cycle |
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8.3 Maintainability organization functions |
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8.4 Maintainability program plan |
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8.5 Maintainability design reviews |
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8.6 Maintainability-associated personnel |
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Chapter 9 Human factors in maintainability |
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9.2 General human behaviors |
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9.3 Human body measurements |
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9.4 Human sensory capabilities |
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9.5 Visual and auditory warning devices in maintenance activities |
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9.6 Human factors formulas |
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Chapter 10 Maintainability testing and demonstration |
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10.2 Maintainability testing and demonstration planning and control requirements |
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10.3 Useful checklists for maintainability demonstration plans, procedures, and reports |
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10.4 Maintainability test approaches |
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10.5 Maintainability testing methods |
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10.6 Steps for performing maintainability demonstrations and evaluating the results and guidelines to avoid pitfalls in maintainability testing |
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Chapter 11 Safety management |
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11.2 Principles of safety management |
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11.3 Functions of safety department, manager, and engineer |
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11.4 Steps for developing a safety program plan and managerial-related deficiencies leading to accidents |
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11.5 Product safety management program and organization tasks |
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11.6 Safety performance measures and drawbacks of the standard indexes |
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Chapter 12 Safety costing |
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12.2 Safety cost-related facts, figures, and examples |
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12.3 Losses of a company due to an accident involving its product |
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12.4 Safety cost estimation methods |
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12.5 Safety cost estimation models |
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12.6 Safety cost performance measurement indexes |
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Chapter 13 Human factors in safety |
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13.3 Work site analysis program for human factors |
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13.4 Symptoms of human factors-associated problems in organizations, identification of specific human factors-associated problems, and useful strategies for solving human factors-associated problems |
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13.5 Useful Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ergonomics guidelines |
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13.6 Human factors-related safety issues |
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13.7 Employee training and education |
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Chapter 14 Software and robot safety |
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14.2 Software hazard causing ways |
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14.3 Basic software system safety-related tasks and software quality assurance organization's role in regard to software safety |
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14.4 Software safety assurance program |
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14.5 Software hazard analysis methods |
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14.6 Robot safety problems and accident types |
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14.8 Safety considerations in robot life cycle |
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14.9 Robot safeguard approaches |
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Index |
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