Practical Reliability Analysis

Containing true-life examples from the author's professional career experiences, this practical book offers useful analytical and troubleshooting tools for engineers as well as case studies that demonstrate critical thinking in solving reliability-type problems, both during early design stages and during production. KEY TOPICS Chapter topics cover important reliability terms and models, confidence limits and their use in reliability, reliability program tasks, the benefits of reliability testing on product design, mechanical design impact on electronic component reliability, thermal factors and reliability, the impact of water on product reliability, failure analysis and troubleshooting methods, the design concepts impact on reliability performance, F Test and CHI-Squared models for hypothesis testing, software reliability issues, maintainability concepts, reliability evaluations and prototypes, and reliability management. For engineers?reliability, product support, project, maintainability, quality, test support, and mechanical?to use as a guide when developing a new design or troubleshooting an existing one.