Reliability: For Technology, Engineering, and Management

I. THE RELIABILITY OBJECTIVE. 1. I Want What I Want When I Want It! 2. Defining Reliability. 3. Computing Reliability Parameters. II. MEASURING AND EVALUATING RELIABILITY. 4. Reliability Predictions. 5. Evaluating Data for Failure Rate Estimation. 6. Graphical Evaluation for Reliability Prediction. 7. Restorability. 8. Reliability Modeling for System Predictions. 9. Reliability Modeling of Complex Systems. 10. System Availability and Dependability. III. RELIABILITY ASSURANCE AND IMPROVEMENT. 11. Reliability and Restorability Demonstration Testing. 12. Reliability Growth Testing. 13. Risk Assessment. 14. Epilogue. Appendix A: Review of Probability and Statistics. Appendix B: Probability Tables. Appendix C: System MTBF and Availability Tables. Index.