文档介绍：Engineering Maintainability:
How to Design for Reliability and Easy Maintenance
by . Dhillon, .
· ISBN: 088415257X
· Pub. Date: June 1999
· Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Preface
In today's global economy, only those nations that lead in tech-
nology will lead the world. Within technology, we include research,
development, and manufacturing, as well as maintenance and main-
tainability. Various studies have indicated that for many large systems
or pieces of equipment, maintenance and support account for as much
as 60 to 75 percent of their overall life cycle costs, and sometimes
much more.
This is probably why there is an increasing emphasis on main-
tainability during product design. But even though the first book on
maintainability, Electronic Maintainability, appeared in 1960, there are
still only a handful of books available on the subject. In recent years,
many new concepts and techniques have been developed to meet the
challenges of maintaining modem engineering systems. A professional
needing information on these developments generally faces a great deal
of difficulty and inconvenience, because they are generally discussed
in various technical papers and in specialized books but have not been
treated within the framework of a single volume on maintainability.
This book is an attempt to present both traditional and modern main-
tainability concepts in a single volume to meet the challenges of
modern system design. Every effort was made to treat the topics
discussed in such a manner that the reader will need minimum pre-
vious knowledge to understand the contents.
If the reader desires to delve deeper into a specific area, references
provide the sources of most of the material presented. Furthermore,
the volume contains numerous examples to facilitate understanding of
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the material, as well as challenging problems to test prehen-
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