Reliability and Stupidity: Mistakes in Reliability Engineering and How to Avoid Them is an aptly named chapter in Jonathan Swingler’s book that discusses what a design engineer should understand about ...

Almost since the advent of electronics, it has been vital for the user to know how long such devices will work properly. Since no one is able to know the future, statistical methods to predict the ...

Illustration by Florafauna Dell and HP consumer laptops have become more durable over the years, but not as rapidly as several smaller rivals have. As a result, readers continue to ding the two large ...

His comment is not the sort of declaration one expects from a veteran author of more than 19 maintenance management texts, as well as the president of Springfield Resources . But the statement, it ...

Reliability is a critical issue in industrial and commercial power distribution systems. Since poor reliability leads to costly power outages, understanding cost-reliability trade-offs in designing ...