Designing Capable and Reliable Products
- 1st Edition - April 3, 2001
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Authors: J. D. Booker, M. Raines, K. G. Swift
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 5 0 6 - 5 0 7 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 0 3 9 9 - 8
Designing Capable and Reliable Products offers an introduction to the importance of capability, quality and reliability in product development. It introduces the concept of capable… Read more
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Designing Capable and Reliable Products offers an introduction to the importance of capability, quality and reliability in product development. It introduces the concept of capable design, focusing on producing designs that meet quality standards and also looks at linking component manufacture and its process capability with failure rates. It provides an introduction to reliable design, incorporating the probabilistic concept of reliability into the product design. This quantitative and highly practical volume provides practical methods for analysing mechanical designs with respect to their capability and reliability. Practising engineers who have to hit definite standards for design will find this book invaluable, as it outlines methods which use physically significant data to quanitify engineering risks at the design stage. By obtaining more realistic measures of design performance, failure costs can be reduced. Taking product design as its central theme, this book is a very useful tool for postgraduate students as well as professional engineers.
Postgraduate students and professional engineers in mechanical, manufacturing and production engineering.
Notation; Abbreviations. Introduction to Quality and Reliability Engineering: Statement of the Problem; The Costs of Quality; How and Why Products Fail; Risk as a Basis for Design; Designing for Quality; Designing for Reliability; Summary. Designing Capable Components and Assemblies: Manufacturing Capability; Component Manufacturing Variability Risks Analysis; Assembly Capability; Component Assembly Variability Risks Analysis; The Effects of Nonconformance; Objectives, Application and Guidance for an Analysis; Case Studies; Summary. Designing Capable Assembly Stacks: Introduction; Background; Tolerance Stack Models; A Methodology for Assembly Stack Analysis; Application Issues; Case Study - Revisiting the Solenoid Design; Summary. Designing Reliable Products: Deterministic Versus Probabalistic Design; Statistical Methods for Probabalistic Design; Variables in Probabalistic Design; Stress-Strength Interference (SSI) Analysis; Elements of Stress Analysis and Failure Theory; Setting Reliability Targets; Application Issues; Case Studies; Summary. Effective Product Development: Introduction; Product Development Models; Tools & Techniques in Product Development; Supporting Issues in Effective Product Development; Summary. References; Bibliography; Appendices.
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 3, 2001
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
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J. D. Booker
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, UKMR
M. Raines
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Hull, UKKS
K. G. Swift
Professor Ken Swift is the Lucas Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering at University of Hull, UK. Following decades of research and collaboration with leading manufacturing groups worldwide, his current research interests include capability analysis and probabilistic design, flexible assembly and inspection systems. He has received numerous awards and prizes in the area of design and manufacturing, including the Donald Julius Groen Prize, awarded for a paper on manufacturing process selection in the IMechE Journal of Engineering Manufacture.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Hull, UKRead Designing Capable and Reliable Products on ScienceDirect