Reliability Quality and Safety for Engineers

Due to global competition safety regulations and other factors manufacturers are increasingly pressed to create products that are safe highly reliable and of high quality. Engineers and quality assurance professionals need a cross-disciplinary understanding of these topics in order to ensure high standards in the design and manufacturing processes. Reliability Quality and Safety for Engineers is the first publication to integrate this information in a single source.The text begins with an introduction that discusses the need for reliability quality and safety as well as historical information terms and definitions. Subsequent chapters discuss relevant mathematics evaluation models and methods testing management and costing. The author treats each topic in a comprehensive manner that requires no prior knowledge of the subject in order to understand the contents.The author includes numerous examples problems and solutions to test the reader's comprehension. He also lists important journals organizations standards and books for further study creating a comprehensive resource for design system safety and manufacturing engineers as well as reliability specialists and quality assurance professionals.