Applied Reliability and Quality Fundamentals, Methods and Procedures
Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers and others to produce highly reliable and good quality products and services. This means that reliability and quality principles are now being applied across many diverse sectors of economy an
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Series Editor Professor Hoang Pham Department of Industrial Engineering Rutgers The State University of New Jersey 96 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018 USA
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B. S. Dhillon, PhD Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario Canada
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Dhillon, B. S. (Balbir S.), 1947– Applied reliability and quality : fundamentals, methods and applications. – (Springer series in reliability engineering) 1. Reliability (Engineering) 2. Quality control I.Title 620'.00452 ISBN-13: 9781846284977 ISBN-10: 184628497X Library of Congress Control Number: 2006939314 Springer Series in Reliability Engineering series ISSN 1614-7839 ISBN 978-1-84628-497-7 e-ISBN 978-1-84628-498-4
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This book is affectionately dedicated to my colleague Professor Stavros Tavoularis for helping me to trace my ancient Scythian ancestry that resulted in the publication of a book on the matter and for challenging me to write 30 books.
Foreword
In today’s technological world nearly everyone depends upon the continued functioning of a wide array of complex machinery and equipment for our everyday safety, security, mobility, and economic welfare. We expect our electric appliances, hospital monitoring control, next-generation aircraft, data exchange systems, banking, and aerospace applications to function whenever we need them. When they fail, the results can be catastrophic. As our society grows in complexity, there is a need to understand the critical
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