This book integrates up-to-date and useful engineering systems reliability and usability developments and concepts, for developing, designing, maintaining, and improving engineering systems in the industrial sector. The book offers many examples and solutions to test reader comprehension.
Engineering systems are an important element of world economy. Each year billions of dollars are spent to develop, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of engineering systems about the globe. The reliability and usability of these systems have become important because of their increasing complexity, sophistication, and non-specialist users. Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers to produce highly reliable and usable engineering systems. Along with examples and solutions, this book integrates engineering systems reliability and usability into a single volume for those individuals that directly or indirectly are concerned with these areas.