Advances in System Reliability Engineering

Recent Advances in System Reliability Engineering describes and evaluates the latest tools, techniques, strategies, and methods in this topic for a variety of applications. Special emphasis is put on simulation and modelling technology which is growing in influence in industry, and presents challenges as well as opportunities to reliability and systems engineers. Several manufacturing engineering applications are addressed, making this a particularly valuable reference for readers in that sector.

Contains comprehensive discussions on state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and strategies from industryConnects the latest academic research to applications in industry including system reliability, safety assessment, and preventive maintenanceGives an in-depth analysis of the benefits and applications of modelling and simulation to reliability

1. Delay-Time-Based Maintenance Modeling for Technical Systems - Theory and Practice 2. Deterministic and Probabilistic Safety Analyses 3. Reliability-Game Theory 4. Integrating Reliability Models and Adaptive Algorithms for Wind Power Forecasting 5. Time-Dependent Analysis of Series-Parallel Multistate Systems Using Structure Function and Markov Processes 6. Modeling Correlated Counts in Reliability Engineering 7. Statistical Inference of an Imperfect Repair Model with Uniform Distributed Repair Degrees 8. Method of Fuzzy Perfectness in Human Reliability Analysis: Selection of Performance Conditions 9. System Reliability Assessment Through Bayesian Network Modeling 10. Multistate Multifailures System Analysis With Reworking Strategy and Imperfect Fault Coverage 11. Software Patch Scheduling Policy Incorporating Functional Safety Standards 12. Tools and Techniques in Software Reliability Modeling