Handbook of Performability Engineering - Misra, Krishna B.; SpringerLink (Online service) (London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Performability Engineering: An Essential Concept in the 21st Century -- Engineering Design: A Systems Approach -- A Practitioner's View of Quality, Reliability and Safety -- Product Design Optimization -- Constructing a Product Design for the Environment Process -- Dependability Considerations in the Design of a System -- Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability -- The Management of Engineering -- Engineering Versus Marketing: An Appraisal in a Global Economic Environment -- The Performance Economy: Business Models for the Functional Service Economy -- Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology: A Dire Need for 21st Century Manufacturing -- Quality Engineering and Management -- Quality Engineering: Control, Design and Optimization -- Statistical Process Control -- Engineering Process Control: A Review -- Six Sigma - Status and Trends -- Computer Based Robust Engineering -- Integrating a Continual Improvement Process with the Product Development Program -- Reliability Engineering: A Perspective -- Tampered Failure Rate Load-Sharing Systems: Status and Perspectives -- O(kn) Algorithms for Analyzing Repairable and Non-repairable k-out-of-n:G Systems -- Imperfect Coverage Models: Status and Trends -- Reliability of Phased-mission Systems -- Reliability of Semi-Markov Systems in Discrete Time: Modeling and Estimation -- Binary Decision Diagrams for Reliability Studies -- Field Data Analysis for Repairable Systems: Status and Industry Trends -- Reliability Degradation of Mechanical Components and Systems -- New Models and Measures for Reliability of Multi-state Systems -- A Universal Generating Function in the Analysis of Multi-state Systems -- New Approaches for Reliability Design in Multistate Systems -- New Approaches to System Analysis and Design: A Review -- Optimal Reliability Design of a System -- MIP: A Versatile Tool for Reliability Design of a System -- Reliability Demonstration in Product Validation Testing -- Quantitative Accelerated Life-testing and Data Analysis -- HALT and HASS Overview: The New Quality and Reliability Paradigm -- Modeling Count Data in Risk Analysis and Reliability Engineering -- Fault Tree Analysis -- Common Cause Failure Modeling: Status and Trends -- A Methodology for Promoting Reliable Human-System Interaction -- Risk Analysis and Management: An Introduction -- Accident Analysis of Complex Systems Based on System Control for Safety -- Probabilistic Risk Assessment -- Risk Management -- Risk Governance: An Application of Analytic-deliberative Policy Making -- Maintenance Engineering and Maintainability: An Introduction -- System Maintenance: Trends in Management and Technology -- Maintenance Models and Optimization -- Replacement and Preventive Maintenance Models -- Effective Fault Detection and CBM Based on Oil Data Modeling and DPCA -- Sustainability: Motivation and Pathways for Implementation -- Corporate Sustainability: Some Challenges for Implementing and Teaching Organizational Risk Management in a Performability Context -- Towards Sustainable Operations Management Integrating Sustainability Management into Operations Management Strategies and Practices -- Indicators for Assessing Sustainability Performance -- Sustainable Technology -- Biotechnology: Molecular Design in a Globalizing World -- Nanotechnology: A New Technological Revolution in the 21st Century -- An Overview of Reliability and Failure Mode Analysis of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) -- Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon Nanofilm -- Applications of Performability Engineering Concepts -- Reliability in the Medical Device Industry -- A Tasks-based Six Sigma Roadmap for Healthcare Services -- Status and Recent Trends in Reliability for Civil Engineering Problems -- Performability Issues in Wireless Communication Networks -- Performability Modeling and Analysis of Grid Computing -- Status and Trends in the Performance Assessment of Fault Tolerant Systems -- Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Electronics -- RAMS Management of Railway Tracks -- Cost-Benefit Optimization Including Maintenance for Structures by a Renewal Model -- Reliability and Price Assessment and the Associated Risk Control for Restructured Power Systems -- Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants -- Software Reliability and Fault-tolerant Systems: An Overview and Perspectives -- Application of the Lognormal Distribution to Software Reliability Engineering -- Early-stage Software Product Quality Prediction Based on Process Measurement Data -- On the Development of Discrete Software Reliability Growth Models -- Epilogue.
Keywords: Quality control; Reliability; Industrial safety; Manufactures; Engineering design; Pollution prevention; Electrical engineering; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes; Engineering Design; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Communications Engineering, Networks; Electrical Engineering