Reliability Theory and Its Application in Structural and Soil Mechanics

P. Thoft-Christensen
Hardcover - $798.95

Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Organizational Culture Change

Stephen Thomas
Hardcover - $78.95

This unique and innovative book explains how to improve maintenance and reliability performance at the plant level by changing the organization's culture. It is specifically intended for middle managers in the manufacturing and process industries. In ...

Statistical Process Control

J. R. Thompson
Hardcover - $275.95

The first edition of this groundbreaking text showed that the Statistical Process Control (SPC) paradigm of W. Edwards Deming not at all the same as the Quality Control paradigm that has dominated American manufacturing since World War II. Its philos ...

Variational Risk Management : Focusing Quality Improvements in Product Development and Production

Anna C. Thornton
Hardcover - $158.95

"A thoughtful, complete, and very readable approach to robust engineering. It presents insights that correlate with those learned at Ford while developing and executing Design for Six Sigma. Having this book three years ago could've helped with that ...

Applied Reliability, Second Edition

Paul A. Tobias
Hardcover - $212.95

A solutions-driven approach to reliability-based design and manufacturing of components and systems. This timely revision takes reliability beyond the purely statistical, and sharpens its real-world focus with coverage of the latest techniques for bu ...

Reliability and Risk Models : Setting Reliability Requirements

M. T. Todinov
Hardcover - $294.95

An introduction to the MFFOP and cost-of-failure based approaches to reliability analysis and its applications.

For many production systems it is important to guarantee a small risk of violating specified minimum failure-free operating periods be ...

Risk-Based Reliability Analysis and Generic Principles for Risk Reduction

M. T. Todinov
Hardcover - $327.95

For a long time, conventional reliability analyses have been oriented towards selecting the more reliable system and preoccupied with maximising the reliability of engineering systems. On the basis of counterexamples however, we demonstrate that sele ...

ISO 9001 : 2000 Audit Procedures

Ray Tricker
Paperback - $92.95

In order to meet the recommendations, requirements and specifications of ISO 9001:2000, organisations must undertake an audit of their own quality procedures and those of their suppliers. Likewise, when supplying ISO 9001:2000 accredited customers, s ...

Radioactivity in Consumer Products

United States Nuclear Regulatory Commiss
Paperback - $112.95

CONTENTS: Preface Introduction -- Muriel Mitchell-Smith Regulations and Standards General and Biological Risks Radioluminous Materials Mining, Agricultural, and Construction Materials Containing Radioactivity Products Containing Radioactive Sources M ...

Probabilistic Reliability Engineering

Igor A. Ushakov
Hardcover - $343.95

With the growing complexity of engineered systems, reliability has increased in importance throughout the twentieth century. Initially developed to meet practical needs, reliability theory has become an applied mathematical discipline that permits a ...