Applied Reliability & Maintainability Engineering

FOREWORD  

PREFACE  

CHAPTER 1: Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Fundamentals  

1.1 Definition of Reliability and Maintainability  

1.1.1 The Life-Characteristic Curve  

1.2 Life-Cycle Activities  

1.2.1 Life-Cycle Costs  

Questions  

References  

CHAPTER 2: Reliability and Maintainability Activity Planning and Management  

2.1 Reliability and Maintainability Program  

2.2 Interaction of Reliability and Maintainability  

2.3 Reliability and Maintainability Design Specification  

Questions  

References  

CHAPTER 3: Design for Reliability and Maintainability  

3.1 Reliability  

3.1.1 Forces of Mortality  

3.1.2 Stress and Strength of Materials  

3.1.3 Design for Reliability  

3.1.3.1 Part Selection and Control  

3.1.3.2 Part Derating   

3.1.3.2.1 Environmental Stresses and Effects  

3.1.3.3 Design Simplification  

3.1.3.4 Redundancy  

3.1.4 Human Factors  

3.2 Maintainability  

3.2.1 Maintenance Planning  

3.2.1.1 Corrective and Preventive Maintenance  

3.2.1.2 Reliability-Centered Maintenance  

3.2.2 Design for Maintainability  

3.2.2.1 Maintainability Analysis  

3.2.2.2 Maintainability Improvement  

3.2.3 Maintenance Induced Problems  

3.3 Availability  

3.4 General Approach to Reliability and Maintainability Improvement  

Questions  

References 

CHAPTER 4: Modeling and Prediction  

4.1 Reliability Block Diagram and Reliability Math Model  

4.2 Reliability Prediction  

4.3 Maintainability Prediction  

Questions  

References  

CHAPTER 5: Data Collection and Analysis  

5.1 Data Recording and Feedback  

5.1.1 Failure Recording, Analysis, and Corrective Action  

5.1.2 Data Collection  

5.1.3 Data Reporting and Access  

5.1.3.1 FRACA Operation  

5.1.3.2 FRACA Responsibility  

5.1.3.3 FRACA Reporting 

5.2 Data Analysis  

5.2.1 Basic Probability and Statistics  

5.2.1.1 Statistics  

5.2.1.1.1 Exploratory Data Analysis  

5.2.1.1.2 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion  

5.2.1.2 Probability  

5.2.1.2.1 Axioms of Probability  

5.2.1.2.2 Discrete and Continuous Distributions 

5.2.2 Probability and Statistical Basis for Failure Analysis  

5.2.2.1 Random Variables  

5.2.2.2 Probability Density and Cumulative Density Function  

5.2.2.3 Continuous Probability Distributions  

5.2.2.3.1 Exponential Distribution       

5.2.2.3.2 Weibull Distribution  

5.2.2.3.3 Normal Distribution  

5.2.2.3.4 Log-Normal Distribution  

5.2.2.3.5 Other Distributions  

5.2.4 Discrete Probability Distributions  

5.2.4.1 Binomial Distribution  

5.2.4.2 Poisson Distribution  

5.2.3 Correlation and Regression Analysis  

5.2.4 Design of Experiment  

5.2.4.1 Analysis of Variance  

Questions  

References  

CHAPTER 6: Testing and Assessment  

6.1 Strategic Test Program Planning  

6.2 Reliability and Maintainability Qualification and Demonstration Test Plan Structure  

6.2.1 Test Types  

6.2.2 Test Program Options  

6.2.2.1 Failure Recording, Analysis, and Corrective Action  

6.2.2.2 Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis  

6.2.3 Reliability Growth Testing  

6.2.3.1 Reliability Growth During Manufacture    

6.2.3.2 Defect Removal Planning  

6.2.3.3 PRMDA Technique  

6.2.3.3.1 PRMDA Activity One  

6.2.3.3.2 PRMDA Activity Two  

6.3 Test Program Plan Requirements  

Questions  

References 

CHAPTER 7: Case Study  

Overview  

Strategic Objective  

Background  

Result/Conclusion  

Questions  

References  

GLOSSARY