Reliability Theory : With Applications to Preventive Maintenance PDF
by Ilya Gertsbakh
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The material in this book was first presented as a one-semester course in Relia- bility Theory and Preventive Maintenance for M.Sc. students of the Industrial Engineering Department of Ben Gurion University in the 1997/98 and 1998/99 academic years.
Engineering students are mainly interested in the applied part of this theory.
The value of preventive maintenance theory lies in the possibility of its imple- mentation, which crucially depends on how we handle statistical reliability data.
The very nature of the object of reliability theory - system lifetime - makes it extremely difficult to collect large amounts of data.
The data available are usu- ally incomplete, e.g. heavily censored. Thus, the desire to make the course material more applicable led me to include in the course topics such as mod- eling system lifetime distributions (Chaps. 1,2) and the maximum likelihood techniques for lifetime data processing (Chap. 3). A course in the theory of statistics is aprerequisite for these lectures.
Stan- dard courses usually pay very little attention to the techniques needed for our purpose.
A short summary of them is given in Chap. 3, including widely used probability plotting. Chapter 4 describes the most useful and popular models of preventive main- tenance and replacement.
Some practical aspects of applying these models are addressed, such as treating uncertainty in the data, the role of data contamina- tion and the opportunistic scheduling of maintenance activities.
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- Publisher:Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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- ISBN:9783662042366
