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Title: Practical Reliability Engineering by Patrick D. T. O'Connor ISBN: 0-470-84463-9 Publisher: Halsted Press Pub. Date: 21 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Reliability Book.
Comment: "Practical Reliability Engineering" by Patrick D.T. O'Connor, (with David Newton and Richard Bromley), John Wiley & sons, Chichester & New York, 1996. Third Edition Revised.
Back in the 1980s, I used the first edition of this book, and it was very helpful then. The third edition has been expanded to add a few chapters, including what I would call a "motivational" first chapter, entitled, "Introduction To Reliability Engineering", pages 1 to 16. This first chapter answers many of the questions that management used to ask, and to whom the final reply was, "We do Reliability because it is a contract item". Now, you can refer the managers to the first chapter.
The original edition once began with Chapter 2, "Reliability Mathematics", fundamental needed to understand Reliability; that chapter has been expanded in this edition, so much so that some has overflowed into Chapter 3, "Probability Plotting". Chapter 3 is a very complete chapter, being a compendium of the different kinds of probability paper, along with a short explanation of how to use the paper.
Interestingly enough, Chapter 5, "Reliability Prediction and Modeling" had a shipboard missile system reliability problem (pages 129-132) which was an explicit example of what we were attempting to portray on one contract. When the Naval Officers saw O' Connor's example, it made it so much easier for us as our work paralleled expert's work in the book's example. This alone was worth the price of the book. Chapter 10, "Software Reliability" is greatly expanded over the previous editions and is up-to-date with current best practices in the field. This new edition of the book is highly recommended as it provides a concise collection of reliability fundamentals. John Peter Rooney, ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer #2425.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Book
Comment: I have used this book (2nd edition) for about 5 years. I find it extremely practical and useful. Mr. O'Conner concentrates on the background information that a Reliability Engineer uses on a daily basis. There is no way that I can answer all the questions the Engineering Staff asks. I find that almost always, I can look-up a concise and clear answer to a question, it refreshes my memory, and I can hit the ground running. This book lives next to 2 other books: The "Data Analysis Handbook" and "The Theory of Life Distributions". I hate to admit it, but I really can't see the need to know more than in contained in this trilogy about reliability and life statistics.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Opinion
Comment: I disagree fairly strongly with the previous reviewer. I'veused a number of texts in the study of systems reliability andreliability engineering and Mr. O'Connor's is the most user-friendly and real-world one that I have yet found. It is impossible to study this field without some involvement of mathematics and probabilistic and statistical functions. However, Mr. O'Connor makes these elements of the field both accessible and intuitively understandable. I rate this text as a very good introduction for those new to the field, and a good solid reference for those already practicing.
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Title: Statistical Methods for Reliability Data by William Q. Meeker, Luis A. Escobar ISBN: 0471143286 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: 10 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $89.95 |
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Title: The Basics of FMEA by Robin E. McDermott, Raymond J. Mikulak, Michael R. Beauregard ISBN: 0527763209 Publisher: Productivity Inc. Pub. Date: 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management by William Grant Ireson, Clyde F. Coombs, Richard Y. Moss ISBN: 0070127506 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $115.00 |
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Title: An Introduction To Reliability and Maintainability Engineering by Charles E. Ebeling ISBN: 0070188521 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $91.87 |
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Title: The New Weibull Handbook,Fourth Edition, Subtitle, Reliability & Statistical Analysis for Predicting Life, Safety, Survivability, Risk, Cost and Warranty Claims by Robert B. Abernethy ISBN: 0965306216 Publisher: Dr. Robert B. Abernethy Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $98.00 |
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