Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
- A Life Cycle Approach

Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability play a crucial role in achieving a competitive product. While manufacturing costs are important for the success of a product, they are not the sole domains in realizing its competitive edge. Improved manufacturing and operating quality and performance coupled with reduced acquisition cost and in-service cost of ownership are important in achieving business success. It is the early phase of design which offers the greatest opportunity to address these requirements, and thus create life cycle effectiveness.
The main objective of Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support -A Life Cycle Approach is to provide an integrated approach to reliability, maintainability, maintenance and logistic support analysis. We not only look at the ways we can improve the design process to ensure the product offers value for money, but we also consider how the owners can get the most from these products once they have entered service. The approach provides a meaningful way of integrating reliability, maintenance and supportability to enhance the product performance and sales opportunities.
Hence, the book covers the following objectives:
(1) Introduce the concepts of reliability, maintainability and supportability and their role in the system life cycle and effectiveness. (2) Introduce the basic probability and statistical techniques that are essential for modelling reliability, maintainability and supportability problems. (3) Introduce reliability measures: how to predict them; how to determine from in-service real-world data; how to use them. (4) Analysis of advanced models in Reliability. (5) Discuss basic and advanced concepts in both maintainability and maintenance including preventive, corrective and condition based maintenance. (6) Discuss maintenance management and optimization concepts, such as reliability-centered maintenance and age-related maintenance. (7) Provide basic concepts in supportability and Integrated logistic support. (8) Discuss techniques for design for reliability, maintainability and supportability. (9) Analysis of simple and advanced models in spares forecasting and optimization. (10) Discuss data analysis, data management and data mining techniques.

1: Reliability, Maintenance and Logistic Support - Introduction.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Life Cycle of A System.- 1.3 Concept of Failure.- 1.4 Apollo 13 — Case Study.- 2: Probability Theory.- 2.1 Probability Terms and Definitions.- 2.2 Elementary Theory of Probability.- 2.3. Probability and Experimental Data.- 2.4. Probability Distribution.- 2.5. Random Variable.- 2.6. The Probability Distribution of Random Variable.- 2.7. Discrete Theoretical Probability Distributions.- 2.8. Continuous Theoretical Probability Distributions.- 3: Reliability Measures.- 3.1. Failure Function.- 3 2 Reliability Function.- 3.3. Despatch Reliability.- 3.4. Hazard Function (Hazard Rate or Instantaneous Failure Rate).- 3.5. Mean Time to Failure (MTTF).- 3.6. Mean Operating Time Between Failures (MTBF).- 3.7. Percentile Life (TTFP OR BP%).- 3.8. Maintenance Free Operating Period (MFOP).- 3.9. Software Reliability Characteristics.- 4: Systems Reliability.- 4.1. Reliability Block Diagram.- 4.2. Reliability Measures for Series Configuration.- 4.3. Life Exchange Rate Matrix.- 4.4. Parallel Configuration.- 4.5. R-OUT-OF-N Systems.- 4.6. Series and Parallel Configuration.- 4.7. Redundant Systems.- 4.8. Complex Reliability Block Diagrams.- 4.9. Cut Set Approach for Reliability Evaluation.- 4.10. Case Study on Aircraft Engines.- 4.11. Systems Reliability Evaluation - Stochastic Models.- 4.12. Stochastic Processes.- 4.13. Markov Process.- 4.14. Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP).- 4.15. Renewal Process.- 5: Maintainability and Maintenance.- 5.1. Concept of Maintainability.- 5.2. Measures of Maintainability.- 5.3. Maintainability Demonstration.- 5.4. Maintenance.- 5.5. Maintenance Concept.- 5.6. Levels Of Maintenance.- 5.7. Maintenance Task Classification.- 5.8. Maintenance Policies.- 5.9.Maintenance Resources.- 5.10. Maintenance Induced Failures.- 5.1 1. Maintenance Cost.- 5.12. Aircraft Maintenance - Case Study.- 6: Maintenance Optimisation.- 6.1 Preventive Maintenance and Reliability.- 6.2 Optimal Replacement Times.- 6.3 Repair Vs Replacement.- 6.4 Reliability Centred Maintenance.- 6.5 Age Related Maintenance.- 6.6 Total Productive Maintenance.- 6.7 Computerised Maintenance Management System.- 7: Supportability and Logistics.- 7.1 Supportability - Terms and Definitions.- 7.2 Supportability Measures.- 7.3 Recondition.- 7.4 Obsolescence.- 7.5 Level of Repair Analysis.- 7.6 Testability, Inspection and Diagnostics.- 7.7 No Fault Found (NFF).- 7.8 Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) and Supportability.- 7.9 Continuous Acquisition and Life Cycle Support (CALS).- 7.10 Case Study: Supportability and Logistics at British Airways.- 8: Spare Parts Provisioning and Management.- 8.1 Basic Concepts and Definitions.- 8.2 Modelling Demand Rate.- 8.3 Mathematical Models for Demand Prediction.- 8.4 Demand for Spares - Constant Vs Increasing Failure Rate.- 8.5 Forecasting Models for Consumable (Discardable) Spare Parts.- 8.6 Models for Repairable Spare Parts.- 8.7 Multi-Indenture Spare Model.- 8.8 Multi-Echelon Spare Models.- 8.9 Spares Provisioning Under Special Contractual Requirements.- 8.10 Inventory Management.- 8.11 Optimisation Methods.- 8.13 Use of Simulation Models in Spares Provisioning.- 8.14 Optimisation Using Simulation.- 9: Integrated Logistic Support.- 9.1 History of Ils.- 9 2 Reliability Plans.- 9.3. Whole Life Cost.- 9.4. Maintenance Planning.- 9.5. Technical Publications.- 9.6. Software Configuration Control.- 9.7. Packaging, Handling, Storage and Transportation (PHS&T).- 9.8. Support and Test Equipment.- 9.9. Software Testing.- 9.10. Training and Training Equipment.- 9.11. Logistic Support Analysis (LSA).- 10: Availability.- 10.1 Point Availability.- 10.2. Achieved Availability.- 10.3. Operational Availability.- 11: Design for Reliability, Maintinability and Supportability.- 11.1. Reliability Allocation.- 11.2. Maintainability Allocation.- 11.3. Supportability Allocation.- 11.4. Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis.- 11.5. Fault Tree Analysis.- 11.6. Fault Tree Analysis Case Study - Passenger Elevator.- 11.7. Fault Tolerant Software.- 11.8. Life Cycle Costing.- 12: Analysis of Reliability, Maintenance and Supportability Data.- 12.1. Reliability, Maintenance and Supportability Data.- 12.2. Estimation of Parameters - Empirical Approach.- 12.3. Analysis of Censored Data.- 12.4. Fitting Probability Distributions Graphically.- 12.5. Regression.- 12.6. Maximum Likelihood Estimation.- References.