Ebook: Handbook of Performability Engineering

Performability engineering provides us with the framework to consider both dependability and sustainability for the optimal design of products, systems or services. Whereas dependability is an aggregate of one or more of the attributes of survivability (such as quality, reliability, and maintainability etc.) and safety, and the present designs based on dependability and life cycle costs cannot be really called truly optimal since these attributes are strongly influenced by the design, raw materials, fabrication, techniques and manufacturing processes employed, and their control and usage. Therefore, sustainability, characterized by dematerilization, energy and waste minimization, disposability, reuse and recycling and other the environmental considerations which help in clean production, must be considered along with dependability. Design of 21^st Century products, systems and services must conform to performability designs. More so when world resources are on the decline and to keep pace with rising population, the increased volume of production is bound to affect the world’s environmental health further.

As of now, dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting the international trade in the free market environment and thereby deciding the economic prosperity of a nation. However, the internalization of the hidden costs of environment preservation will have to be accounted for, sooner or later, in order to be able to produce sustainable products and systems in the long run. These factors cannot be ignored any more and must not be considered in isolation of each other.

The Handbook of Performability Engineering considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

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Performability engineering provides us with the framework to consider both dependability and sustainability for the optimal design of products, systems or services. Whereas dependability is an aggregate of one or more of the attributes of survivability (such as quality, reliability, and maintainability etc.) and safety, and the present designs based on dependability and life cycle costs cannot be really called truly optimal since these attributes are strongly influenced by the design, raw materials, fabrication, techniques and manufacturing processes employed, and their control and usage. Therefore, sustainability, characterized by dematerilization, energy and waste minimization, disposability, reuse and recycling and other the environmental considerations which help in clean production, must be considered along with dependability. Design of 21^st Century products, systems and services must conform to performability designs. More so when world resources are on the decline and to keep pace with rising population, the increased volume of production is bound to affect the world’s environmental health further.

As of now, dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting the international trade in the free market environment and thereby deciding the economic prosperity of a nation. However, the internalization of the hidden costs of environment preservation will have to be accounted for, sooner or later, in order to be able to produce sustainable products and systems in the long run. These factors cannot be ignored any more and must not be considered in isolation of each other.

The Handbook of Performability Engineering considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

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Performability engineering provides us with the framework to consider both dependability and sustainability for the optimal design of products, systems or services. Whereas dependability is an aggregate of one or more of the attributes of survivability (such as quality, reliability, and maintainability etc.) and safety, and the present designs based on dependability and life cycle costs cannot be really called truly optimal since these attributes are strongly influenced by the design, raw materials, fabrication, techniques and manufacturing processes employed, and their control and usage. Therefore, sustainability, characterized by dematerilization, energy and waste minimization, disposability, reuse and recycling and other the environmental considerations which help in clean production, must be considered along with dependability. Design of 21^st Century products, systems and services must conform to performability designs. More so when world resources are on the decline and to keep pace with rising population, the increased volume of production is bound to affect the world’s environmental health further.

As of now, dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting the international trade in the free market environment and thereby deciding the economic prosperity of a nation. However, the internalization of the hidden costs of environment preservation will have to be accounted for, sooner or later, in order to be able to produce sustainable products and systems in the long run. These factors cannot be ignored any more and must not be considered in isolation of each other.

The Handbook of Performability Engineering considers all aspects of performability engineering, providing a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xlviii
Performability Engineering: An Essential Concept in the 21st Century....Pages 1-12
Engineering Design: A Systems Approach....Pages 13-24
A Practitioner’s View of Quality, Reliability and Safety....Pages 25-40
Product Design Optimization....Pages 41-56
Constructing a Product Design for the Environment Process....Pages 57-69
Dependability Considerations in the Design of a System....Pages 71-80
Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability....Pages 81-103
The Management of Engineering....Pages 105-115
Engineering Versus Marketing: An Appraisal in a Global Economic Environment....Pages 117-126
The Performance Economy: Business Models for the Functional Service Economy....Pages 127-138
Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology: A Dire Need for 21st Century Manufacturing....Pages 139-156
Quality Engineering and Management....Pages 157-170
Quality Engineering: Control, Design and Optimization....Pages 171-186
Statistical Process Control....Pages 187-201
Engineering Process Control: A Review....Pages 203-223
Six Sigma — Status and Trends....Pages 225-234
Computer Based Robust Engineering....Pages 235-244
Integrating a Continual Improvement Process with the Product Development Program....Pages 245-251
Reliability Engineering: A Perspective....Pages 253-289
Tampered Failure Rate Load-Sharing Systems: Status and Perspectives....Pages 291-308
Imperfect Coverage Models: Status and Trends....Pages 309-320
Reliability of Phased-mission Systems....Pages 321-348
Reliability of Semi-Markov Systems in Discrete Time: Modeling and Estimation....Pages 349-368
Binary Decision Diagrams for Reliability Studies....Pages 369-380
Field Data Analysis for Repairable Systems: Status and Industry Trends....Pages 381-396
Reliability Degradation of Mechanical Components and Systems....Pages 397-412
New Models and Measures for Reliability of Multi-state Systems....Pages 413-429
A Universal Generating Function in the Analysis of Multi-state Systems....Pages 431-445
New Approaches for Reliability Design in Multistate Systems....Pages 447-464
New Approaches to System Analysis and Design: A Review....Pages 465-476
Optimal Reliability Design of a System....Pages 477-498
MIP: A Versatile Tool for Reliability Design of a System....Pages 499-519
Reliability Demonstration in Product Validation Testing....Pages 521-531
Quantitative Accelerated Life-testing and Data Analysis....Pages 533-542
HALT and HASS Overview: The New Quality and Reliability Paradigm....Pages 543-557
Modeling Count Data in Risk Analysis and Reliability Engineering....Pages 559-578
Fault Tree Analysis....Pages 579-594
Common Cause Failure Modeling: Status and Trends....Pages 595-620
A Methodology for Promoting Reliable Human-System Interaction....Pages 621-640
Risk Analysis and Management: An Introduction....Pages 641-665
Accident Analysis of Complex Systems Based on System Control for Safety....Pages 667-681
Probabilistic Risk Assessment....Pages 683-697
Risk Management....Pages 699-718
Risk Governance: An Application of Analytic-deliberative Policy Making....Pages 719-742
Maintenance Engineering and Maintainability: An Introduction....Pages 743-754
System Maintenance: Trends in Management and Technology....Pages 755-772
Maintenance Models and Optimization....Pages 773-787
Replacement and Preventive Maintenance Models....Pages 789-805
Effective Fault Detection and CBM Based on Oil Data Modeling and DPCA....Pages 807-823
Sustainability: Motivation and Pathways for Implementation....Pages 825-841
Corporate Sustainability: Some Challenges for Implementing and Teaching Organizational Risk Management in a Performability Context....Pages 843-856
Towards Sustainable Operations Management Integrating Sustainability Management into Operations Management Strategies and Practices....Pages 857-874
Indicators for Assessing Sustainability Performance....Pages 875-904
Sustainable Technology....Pages 905-918
Biotechnology: Molecular Design in a Globalizing World....Pages 919-931
Nanotechnology: A New Technological Revolution in the 21st Century....Pages 933-942
An Overview of Reliability and Failure Mode Analysis of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)....Pages 943-952
Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon Nanofilm....Pages 953-966
Applications of Performability Engineering Concepts....Pages 967-984
Reliability in the Medical Device Industry....Pages 985-996
A Tasks-based Six Sigma Roadmap for Healthcare Services....Pages 997-1009
Status and Recent Trends in Reliability for Civil Engineering Problems....Pages 1011-1024
Performability Issues in Wireless Communication Networks....Pages 1025-1046
Performability Modeling and Analysis of Grid Computing....Pages 1047-1067
Status and Trends in the Performance Assessment of Fault Tolerant Systems....Pages 1069-1086
Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Electronics....Pages 1087-1106
RAMS Management of Railway Tracks....Pages 1107-1122
Cost-Benefit Optimization Including Maintenance for Structures by a Renewal Model....Pages 1123-1145
Reliability and Price Assessment and the Associated Risk Control for Restructured Power Systems....Pages 1147-1161
Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants....Pages 1163-1178
Software Reliability and Fault-tolerant Systems: An Overview and Perspectives....Pages 1179-1192
Application of the Lognormal Distribution to Software Reliability Engineering....Pages 1193-1208
Early-stage Software Product Quality Prediction Based on Process Measurement Data....Pages 1209-1225
On the Development of Discrete Software Reliability Growth Models....Pages 1227-1237
Epilogue....Pages 1239-1255
Back Matter....Pages 1257-1269
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