Advanced Reliability Models and Maintenance Policies

• Main Author: Nakagawa, Toshio (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Mathematical optimization.; Engineering design.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Engineering Design.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Optimization.

Reliability theory is a major concern for engineers and managers engaged in making high quality products and designing highly reliable systems. Advanced Reliability Models and Maintenance Policies is a survey of new research topics in reliability theory and optimization techniques in reliability eng...

Table of Contents:

• Redundant Models
• Partition Policies
• Maintenance Policies for a Finite Interval
• Forward and Backward Times in Reliability Models
• Optimum Retrial Number of Reliability Models
• Optimum Checkpoint Intervals for Fault Detection
• Maintenance Models with Two Variables
• System Complexity and Entropy Models
• Management Models with Reliability Applications.