search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xv
Acknowledgements
xix
Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support - Introduction
1
12
Introduction
1
4
The Life Cycle of a System
5
2
Concept of Failure
7
2
Apollo 13 - Case Study
9
4
Probability Theory
13
38
Probability Terms and Definitions
13
2
Elementary Theory of Probability
15
4
Axioms of Probability
15
1
Rules of Probability
16
1
Joint Events
17
1
Conditional Probability
18
1
Probability and Experimental Data
19
1
Probability Distribution
20
1
Random Variable
20
3
Types of random variables
22
1
The Probability Distribution of Random Variable
23
9
Functional Method
24
4
Parametric Method
28
4
Discrete Theoretical Probability Distributions
32
6
Bernoulli Trials
32
2
The Binomial Distribution
34
1
The Poisson Distribution
35
3
Continuous Theoretical Probability Distributions
38
13
Exponential Distribution
39
2
Normal Distribution (Gaussian Distribution)
41
4
Lognormal Distribution
45
2
Weibull Distribution
47
4
Reliability Measures
51
46
Failure Function
53
8
Failure function of system under multiple failure Mechanisms
59
2
Reliability Function
61
6
Reliability function for items under multiple failure Mechanisms
63
2
Mission Reliability Function
65
2
Despatch Reliability
67
1
Hazard Function (Hazard Rate or Instantaneous Failure Rate)
67
9
Cumulative hazard function
71
1
Cumulative hazard function and the Expected number of failures
72
1
Typical Forms of Hazard Function
73
2
Failure rate
75
1
Mean Time To Failure (MTTF)
76
9
Mean Residual Life
78
3
MTTF of a maintained system
81
3
Variance of Mean Time To Failure
84
1
Mean Operating Time Between Failures (MTBF)
85
2
Percentile Life (TTFp OR Bp%)
87
1
Maintenance Free Operating Period (MFOP)
88
3
Maintenance Free Operating Period Survivability Prediction
88
3
Software Reliability Characteristics
91
6
Software Reliability
93
1
Mean Time to Failure of Software
93
1
Software failure rate
94
1
Jelinski-Moranda Model
94
1
Goel-Okumoto Model
95
2
Systems Reliability
97
58
Reliability Block Diagram
98
1
Reliability Measures For Series Configuration
98
12
Life Exchange Rate Matrix
110
3
Parallel Configuration
113
4
R-Out-Of-N Systems
117
3
Series And Parallel Configuration
120
2
Redundant Systems
122
5
Complex Reliability Block Diagrams
127
3
Cut Set Approach For Reliability Evaluation
130
1
Case Study On Aircraft Engines
131
7
Systems Reliability Evaluation - Stochastic Models
138
1
Stochastic Processes
138
2
Markov Process
140
4
Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP)
144
5
Renewal Process
149
6
Maintainability and Maintenance
155
50
Concept of Maintainability
156
3
Measures of Maintainability
159
8
Maintenance Elapsed-Time
159
4
Maintenance Man Hour (MMH)
163
2
Maintenance Frequency Factors
165
1
Maintenance cost factors
166
1
Maintainability Demonstration
167
3
Maintenance
170
1
Maintenance Concept
171
1
Levels of Maintenance
172
2
User level (organisational)
172
1
Intermediate level
173
1
Depot level
173
1
Hole-in-the-Wall
173
1
Maintenance Task Classification
174
4
Corrective Maintenance Task
175
1
Preventive Maintenance Task
176
1
Conditional (Predictive) Maintenance Task
177
1
Maintenance Policies
178
16
Failure-Based Maintenance Policy
179
1
Time-Based Maintenance Policy
180
3
Condition Based Maintenance (Predictive Maintenance)
183
11
Maintenance Resources
194
1
Maintenance Induced Failures
195
2
Maintenance Cost
197
4
Cost of Maintenance Task
197
1
Direct cost of maintenance task
198
1
Indirect cost of maintenance task
198
1
Total cost of maintenance task
199
1
Factor Affecting Maintenance Costs
200
1
Aircraft Maintenance - Case Study
201
4
Maintenance Optimisation
205
44
Preventive Maintenance and Reliability
206
2
Optimal Replacement Times
208
3
Optimal Replacement Under Minimal Repair
210
1
Repair Vs Replacement
211
4
Reliability Centred Maintenance
215
20
RCM Process
218
6
RCM Decision Logic Process
224
10
Potential Failure and P-F Curve
234
1
Age Related Maintenance
235
8
Age related maintenance - Case Study on Aircraft Engine
240
3
Total Productive Maintenance
243
3
Computerised Maintenance Management System
246
3
Supportability And Logistics
249
32
Supportability - Terms and Definitions
251
6
Supportability
251
1
Supportability Engineering
252
1
Logistic Delay Time (LDT) or Time to Support (TTS)
253
1
Support Resources
253
3
Arising
256
1
Supportability Measures
257
3
Recondition
260
1
Obsolescence
261
1
Level of Repair Analysis
262
2
Testability, Inspection and Diagnostics
264
6
Built in Test (BIT)
265
3
Built-in-Test-Equipment (BITE)
268
1
Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS)
268
2
No Fault Found (NFF)
270
2
Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and Supportability
272
1
Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support (CALS)
272
1
Case Study: Supportability and Logistics at British Airways
273
8
Spare Parts Provisioning And Management
281
64
Basic Concepts and Definitions
283
3
Modelling Demand Rate
286
1
Mathematical Models for Demand Prediction
287
13
Homogeneous Poisson Process Models for Forecasting Spares
287
10
Renewal Process Models for Forecasting Spares
297
3
Demand For Spares - Constant Vs Increasing Failure Rate
300
1
Forecasting Models For Consumable (Discardable) Spare Parts
301
2
Models For Repairable Spare Parts
303
9
Birth and Death Process Model for Repairable Spare Parts
303
5
Palm's Theorem and its Application in Spares provisioning for repairable items
308
4
Multi-Indenture Spare Model
312
2
Multi-Echelon Spare Models
314
3
Spares Provisioning Under Spacial Contractual Requirements
317
2
Inventory Management
319
4
Economic Order Quantity
320
3
Optimisation Methods
323
4
Zero-one non-linear integer programming Model
324
1
Marginal Analysis
325
2
Simulation
327
9
Monte Carlo Simulation
328
5
Discrete Event Simulation
333
3
Use of Simulation Models in Spares Provisioning
336
4
Optimisation Using Simulation
340
5
Integrated Logistic Support
345
32
History of ILS
346
8
The concept of ILS
349
1
The Case Study of Airline Costs
349
2
Case Study on Air Force's Cost
351
3
Reliability Plans
354
9
Reliability Demonstrations
356
1
Case Study of a Turbine Disc
357
2
Reliability testing
359
4
Whole Life Cost
363
1
Maintenance Planning
364
2
Repair or Replace
364
2
Technical Publications
366
1
Software Configuration Control
367
1
Packaging, Handling, Storage and Transportation (PHS&T)
367
2
Support and Test Equipment
369
1
Software Testing
370
2
Training and Training Equipment
372
3
Logistic Support Analysis (LSA)
375
2
Availability
377
12
Point Availability
378
7
Average Availability
381
1
Inherent Availability
381
2
System Availability of different reliability block diagrams
383
2
Achieved Availability
385
2
Operational Availability
387
2
Design For Reliability, Maintinability And Supportability
389
34
Reliability Allocation
389
7
AGREE Method for Reliability Allocation
391
2
Equal Apportionment Technique
393
1
The ARINC Apportionment Technique
394
2
Maintainability Allocation
396
2
Supportability Allocation
398
1
Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
399
5
Procedural steps in the FMECA analysis
400
2
Risk Priority Number
402
2
Fault Tree Analysis
404
2
Fault tree Analysis Case Study - Passenger Elevator
406
5
Fault Tolerant Software
411
3
Recovery Blocks
411
2
N - Version Programming
413
1
Life Cycle Costing
414
9
Components of Life Cycle Costing
415
2
Life Cycle Costing Procedures
417
1
Factors affecting LCC Appraisal
418
5
Analysis Of Reliability, Maintenance And Supportability Data
423
50
Reliability, Maintenance and Supportability Data
425
1
Estimation of Parameters - Empirical Approach
426
10
Estimation of Performance Measures - Complete Ungrouped Data
426
2
Confidence Interval
428
5
Analysis of Grouped Data
433
3
Analysis of Censored Data
436
1
Fitting Probability Distributions Graphically
437
9
Fitting an Exponential distribution to data graphically
440
1
Fitting a Normal Distribution Graphically
441
1
Fitting a Log-Normal Distribution Graphically
442
2
Fitting a Weibull Distribution Graphically
444
2
Regression
446
8
Correlation Co-efficient
448
1
Linear Regression for Exponential Distribution
449
2
Linear Regression for Weibull Distribution
451
1
Linear regression for Normal Distribution
452
2
Linear Regression for Log-normal Distribution
454
1
Maximum Likelihood Estimation
454
19
Complete and Uncensored Data
455
14
Interval Data
469
4
Appendix
473
6
References
479
6
Index
485