Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design

✍ Scribed by P. Zeephongsekul (auth.), Hoang Pham (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 531
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modeling. Each chapter is written by active researchers and professionals with international reputations, providing material which bridges the gap between theory and practice to trigger new practices and research challenges.

Postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners in reliability engineering, maintenance engineering, quality engineering, operations research, industrial and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, computer engineering, management, and statistics will find this book a state-of-the-art survey of reliability and quality in design and practices.

Hoang Pham, FIEEE is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. His research interests include software reliability, system reliability modeling, maintenance, fault-tolerant computing, and biological systemability-risk assessment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Central Limit Theorem for a Family of Reliability Measures....Pages 3-30
Modeling and Reliability Evaluation of Multi-state k -out-of- n Systems....Pages 31-56
On Weighted Least Squares Estimation for the Parameters of Weibull Distribution....Pages 57-84
Periodic and Sequential Imperfect Preventive Maintenance Policies for Cumulative Damage Models....Pages 85-99
Some Alternative Approaches to System Reliability Modeling....Pages 101-135
The Optimal Burn-in: State of the Art and New Advances for Cost Function Formulation....Pages 137-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Optimum Threshold Level of Degrading Systems Based on Sensor Observation....Pages 185-199
Weibull Data Analysis with Few or no Failures....Pages 201-210
A Load-weighted Statistical Average Model of Fatigue Reliability....Pages 211-224
Markovian Performance Evaluation for Software System Availability with Processing Time Limit....Pages 225-238
Failure Probability Estimation of Long Pipeline....Pages 239-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Software Fault Imputation in Noisy and Incomplete Measurement Data....Pages 255-274
A Linearized Growth Curve Model for Software Reliability Data Analysis....Pages 275-290
Software Reliability Model Considering Time-delay Fault Removal....Pages 291-307
Heuristic Component Placement for Maximizing Software Reliability....Pages 309-330
Software Reliability Growth Models Based on Component Characteristics....Pages 331-342
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Statistical Analysis of Appearance Quality for Automotive Rubber Products....Pages 345-360
Present Worth Design of Engineering Systems with Degrading Components....Pages 361-374
Economic-statistical Design of a Logarithmic Transformed S 2 EWMA Chart....Pages 375-405
Risk Management Techniques for Quality Software Development....Pages 407-420
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
Recent Advances in Data Mining for Categorizing Text Records....Pages 423-440
Quality in Design: User-oriented Design of Public Toilets for Visually Impaired People....Pages 441-464
Assurance Cases for Reliability: Reducing Risks to Strengthen ROI for SCADA Systems....Pages 465-489
Detecting Driver’s Emotion: A Step Toward Emotion-based Reliability Engineering....Pages 491-507
Mortality Modeling Perspectives....Pages 509-516
Back Matter....Pages 517-523

✦ Subjects

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Engineering Design; Industrial and Production Engineering; Automotive and Aerospace Engineering, Traffic; Systems Theory, Control; Production/Logistics