The medical device industry is among the wide cross section of industries that benefit from reliability engineering. Four methods presented here offer manufacturers concrete techniques to improve the ...

Probability concepts and random variables. Failure rates and reliability testing. Wear-in, wear-out, random failures. Probabilistic treatment of loads, capacity, safety factors. Reliability of ...

Maintenance is fundamentally about sound asset management, and should be regarded as a category of asset management. An important feature of any asset is its ability ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...