Books in the Springer Series in Reliability Engineering series

The book comprehensively covers the various aspects of risk modeling and analysis in technological contexts. It pursues a systems approach to modeling risk and reliability concerns in engineering, and covers the key concepts of risk analysis and mathematical tools used to assess and account for risk in engineering problems.

The only recent book to cover "Stage 3" warranty management, linking strategic and operational aspects for manufactured products. Shows how to make warranty management an effective tool for enhancing customer satisfaction.

This book synthesizes significant recent advances in the use of risk analysis in many government agencies and private corporations, providing a Bayesian foundation for framing probabilistic problems and performing inference on these problems.

This book offers accurate, efficient methods for solving stochastic equations, with a focus on formulating equations that apply to problems in engineering and applied sciences. Numerous examples illustrate essential theoretical concepts, models and methods.

The book is intended for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students in related engineering and management programs such as mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering and engineering management programs, as well as for researchers and engineers in the quality and reliability fields.

Reliability and safety are issues that must be addressed throughout the life of engineering systems. This book presents an overview of the basic concepts, together with simple and practical illustrations. It highlights recent advances and offers case studies.

This book describes the prerequisites for the placing on themarket and the safe use of machinery in compliance with the relevant EUDirectives, especially the Machinery Directive 2006/42.

Maximizing reader insights into the roles of intelligent agents in networks, air traffic and emergency departments, this volume focuses on congestion in systems where safety and security are at stake, devoting special attention to applying game theoretic analysis of congestion to: protocols in wired and wireless networks;