Books by B.S. Dhillon

Industry recognizes the importance of system and product reliability and places ever increasing emphasis on it during the design phase. Therefore, it is extremely important for designers and engineers to have a solid grounding in reliability engineering and keep abreast of developments and research results. Design Reliability: Fundamentals and Appl

This book is an attempt to meet the need for a single volume that considers a wide range of applied reliability topics. The material covered will be treated in such a manner that the reader will require no previous knowledge to understand it.

Each year billions of dollars are spent in the area of oil and gas to design, construct/manufacture, operate, and maintain equipment/systems around the globe. Safety and reliability has become an important issue due to various types of accidents and problems over the years. There has been a large number of articles on safety and reliability in t

The medical device industry is among the fastest growing segments of the U.S. economy, and Medical Device Reliability and Associated Areas provides comprehensive coverage of the field. It covers a wide range of topics related, directly and indirectly, to reliability, maintainability, safety, and risk assessment, including human error in health care systems and software quality assurance. With emphasis on concepts rather than mathematical rigor, a multitude of examples, exercises, tables, and references, this is one resource that everyone connected to the medical device industry must have on their shelves.

This book covers the topics of maintainability, maintenance, and reliability for the first time within a single source. It discusses mechanical and human reliability as well as reliability evaluation methods. It addresses various aspects of maintainability, including tools, specific maintainability design considerations, management, and costing, and explores human factors in maintainability, maintenance engineering objectives, corrective and preventive maintenance, and reliability centered maintenance. The author offers historical aspects, terms, definitions, and useful mathematical concepts while providing examples, solutions, and problems at the end of each chapter.

A compilation of data from a wide variety of sources, this book eliminates the need to pick through journal articles, online databases, and conference proceedings to obtain information. The authors discuss medical device maintenance, human error reporting systems and models for predicting human reliability and error, patient safety, quality methods, and steps for improving quality in healthcare. Highlights include a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter containing introductory material on reliability technology, human error, and quality considered essential to understanding materials presented in subsequent chapters. The book contains examples, their solutions, and end-of-chapter problems.

This book combines coverage of safety and human factors in engineering into a single volume, eliminating the need to consult many different and diverse sources to obtain desired information. It discusses mathematical concepts necessary to understanding material presented in subsequent chapters. The author describes the methods that can be used to perform various types of safety and human error analysis in engineering systems. The book contains examples along with their solutions and at the end of each chapter are numerous problems to test reader comprehension.

This book combines computer system reliability, safety, usability, and other related topics into a single volume and to eliminate the need to consult many different and diverse sources in obtaining desired information. The topics covered are treated in such a manner that readers require no previous knowledge to understand the contents. The book contains examples along with their solutions and numerous problems at the end of each chapter to test reader comprehension. The sources of most of the material presented will be given in the reference section at the end of each chapter.

Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach presents a cradle-to-grave strategy to preserve equipment function, avoid the consequences of failures, and ensure the productive capacity of equipment. The author has gathered and integrated the latest advances in engineering maintenance to formulate practical, step-by-step plans.

Each year a vast sum of money is spent on health care around the globe and patient safety has become a serious global public health issue. Filled with up-to-date information, this book demonstrates how to handle patient safety-related problems by using methods developed in the area of engineering. It contains a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter on introductory material on safety and human factors considered essential to understand materials presented in subsequent chapters. The author¿s presentation covers topics in such a manner that readers will require no previous knowledge to understand the concepts.

Discusses the need for reliability, quality and safety as well as historical information, terms, and definitions. This book discusses relevant mathematics, evaluation models and methods, testing, management, and costing.

Industry recognizes the importance of system and product reliability and places emphasis on it during the design phase. This book provides the background professionals need to incorporate reliability concepts, tools, and techniques into their system planning and designs.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the medical device industry. This title covers a wide range of topics related, directly and indirectly, to reliability, maintainability, safety, and risk assessment, including human error in health care systems and software quality assurance.

This book combines computer system reliability, safety, usability, and other related topics into a single volume and to eliminate the need to consult many different and diverse sources in obtaining desired information. The topics covered are treated in such a manner that readers require no previous knowledge to understand the contents. The book contains examples along with their solutions and numerous problems at the end of each chapter to test reader comprehension. The sources of most of the material presented will be given in the reference section at the end of each chapter.

Each year a vast sum of money is spent on health care around the globe and patient safety has become a serious global public health issue. Filled with up-to-date information, this book demonstrates how to handle patient safety-related problems by using methods developed in the area of engineering. It contains a chapter on mathematical concepts and another chapter on introductory material on safety and human factors considered essential to understand materials presented in subsequent chapters. The author 's presentation covers topics in such a manner that readers will require no previous knowledge to understand the concepts.

Covers the topics of maintainability, maintenance, and reliability. This book discusses mechanical and human reliability as well as reliability evaluation methods. It also addresses various aspects of maintainability, including tools, specific maintainability design considerations, management, and costing.

Presents a cradle-to-grave strategy to preserve equipment function, avoid the consequences of failures, and ensure the productive capacity of equipment. Moving well beyond traditional approaches, this strategy incorporates quality and safety, human error, and software maintenance considerations along with costing, reliability, and maintainability.