Assurance Technologies: Principles and Practices (MCGRAW HILL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT SERIES)

By Michael Allocco and Dev G. Raheja

Book Overview

Aimed at all practising design engineers in the mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, electrical and civil engineering areas, this book covers the wide range of assurance technologies regarded by the author as essential for greater reliability and more accurate design and engineering. Its purpose is to unify all existing knowledge dealing with assurance technolgies in the design and manufacture of new products and technologies, give the reader an understanding of each technology, and provide guidance in interfacing among technologies. In the author's opinion the lack of interaction among technologies has allowed products and systems to fail in catastrophic ways - for example, at Three Mile Island - and he suggests many recent aircraft accidents may have been avoided if engineers and managers better understood the interplay between quality technology and human factors.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070512124
• ISBN13: 9780070512122
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview of the Assurance Technologies!

Although not an in depth study of every facet of the Assurance Technologies area (Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, Quality Assurance, Logistics Support, Human Factors, Software Assurance, and System Effectiveness), this book provides an excellent overview of all these various disciplines and how they integrate to improve the cradle-to-grave assurance process for products and software. The references and personal anecdotes included by the author provide insights into the how, what, why, and when for each of these disciplines. If you have interest in any of these topic areas, this is a fine book to demonstrate how much these topics all contribute to the success of a product's concept, design, development, manufacture, field support, and maintenance. The book is designed by the author to: "bridge the gap between academia and industry". At this task, the author has succeeded very well indeed!