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Dependability and cost effectiveness are primarily seen as instruments for conducting international trade in the free market environment. These factors cannot be considered in isolation of each other. This handbook considers all aspects of performability engineering. The book provides a holistic view of the entire life cycle of activities of the product, along with the associated cost of environmental preservation at each stage, while maximizing the performance.

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Performability Engineering: An Essential Concept in 21st Century
Krishna B. Misra Engineering Design: A System´s Approach
Krishna B. Misra A Practitioner´s View of Quality, Reliability and Safety
Patrick D. T. O´ Connor Product Design Optimization
Masataka Yoshimura Constructing a Product Design for Environmental Process
Daniel P. Fitzgerald, Jeffery W. Herrmann, Peter A. Sandborn, Linda C. Schmidt and H. Gogoll Thornton Dependability Considerations in Design of a System
Krishna B. Misra Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability
Peter Sandborn and Jessica Myers The Management of Engineering
Patrick D. T. O´ Connor Engineering versus Marketing: An Appraisal in Global Economic Environment
Hwy-Chang Moon The Performance Economy: Business Models for the Functional Service Economy
Walter R. Stahel Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology: A Dire Need for 21st Century Manufacturing
Leo Baas Quality Engineering and Management
Krishna B. Misra Quality Engineering: Control, Design and Optimization
Qianmei Feng and Kailash C. Kapur Statistical Process Control
V. N. A. Naikan Engineering Process Control: A Review
V. K. Butte and L. C. Tang Six Sigma: Status and Trends
U. Dinesh Kumar Computer Based Robust Engineering
Rajesh Jugulum and Jagmeet Singh Integrating a Continual Improvement Process with the Product Development Process
Vivek ´Vic´ Nanda Reliability Engineering: A Perspective
Krishna B. Misra Tampered Failure Rate Load-Sharing Systems: Status and Perspectives
Suprasad V. Amari, Krishna B. Misra and Hoang Pham O(kn) Algorithms for Analyzing Repairable andNon-Repairable k-out-of-n:G Systems
Suprasad V. Amari, Ming J. Zuo, and Glenn Dill Imperfect Coverage Models: Status and Trends
Suprasad V. Amari, Albert Myers, Antoine Rauzy, and Kishor Trivedi Reliability of Phased-Mission Systems
Liudong Xing and Suprasad V. Amari Reliability of Semi-Markov Systems in Discrete Time: Modeling and Estimation
Vlad Stefan Barbu and Nikolaos Limnios Binary Decision Diagrams for Reliability Studies
Antoine B. Rauzy Field Data Analysis for Repairable Systems: Status and Industry Trends
David Trindade and Swami Nathan Reliability Degradation of Mechanical Components and Systems
Liyang Xie, and Zheng Wang New Models and Measures for Reliability of Multi-state Systems
Yung-wen Liu, and Kailash C. Kapur Universal Generating Function in Analysis of Multi-State Systems
Gregory Levitin New Approaches for Reliability Design in Multi-State Systems
Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez New Approaches to System Analysis and Design: A Review
Hong-Zhong Huang, Liping He Optimal System Reliability Design
Bhupesh Lad, M. S. Kulkarni, and K. B. Misra MIP: A Versatile Tool for Reliability Design of a System
S. K. Chaturvedi and K. B. Misra Reliability Demonstration in Product Validation Testing
Andre Kleyner Quantitative Accelerated Life Testing and Data Analysis
Pantelis Vassiliou, Adamantios Mettas and Tarik El-Azzouzi HALT and HASS Overview: The New Quality and Reliability Paradigm
Gregg K. Hobbs Modeling Count Data in Risk and Reliability Engineering
Seth D. Guikema and Jeremy P. Coffelt Fault Tree Analysis
Liudong Xing and Suprasad V. Amari Common Cause Failure Modeling: Status and Trends
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