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Journals:
RTC Magazine - http://www.rtcmagazine.com
Compliance Engineering Magazine - http://www.ce-mag.com
Test and Measurement World - http://www.tmworld.com
Test Engineering and Management - http://www.testmagazine.biz
COTS Journal - http://www.cotsjournalonline.com
Evaluation Engineering - http://www.evaluationengineering.com

Professional Organization Links:
IEEE Reliability Society - http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/relsoc/
American Society for Quality (ASQ) - http://www.asq.org/
Equipment Reliability Institute (ERI) - http://www.equipment-reliability.com
Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) - http://www.iest.org
IEEE - Accelerated Stress Testing & Reliability Conference - http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/tc7/ast2003/
IEEE CPMT Technical Committee on Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability (TC-ASTR) - http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/tc7/
Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) - http://www.rams.org/

Improving Product Reliability: Strategies and Implementation
Mark Levin, Ted Kalal

If product reliability is falling short of customer expectations and warranty costs are out of control then changes are needed to the reliability process. Practical and easy to understand, Improving Product Reliability offers invaluable advice to designers, engineers, managers and CEOs who wish to develop better products but are unsure of what to do and how to go about it. This book presents a time-tested reliability process which has been refined over the years and can be readily transferable to any organization.

Link to Purchase:  http://www.wiley.com


      Incorporating the whole product development and product life cycle process, this book:

		Explains why product reliability is a requirement for competing in the 21st century.
		Covers reliability concepts and how to develop a practical reliability toolbox for your business.
		Addresses why businesses are unsuccessful at improving product reliability and a strategy for implementation based on company size.
		Describes a three step process for successful implementation of a reliability program.
		Provides guidance in selecting and hiring: consultants, reliability engineers and establishing a reliability lab.
		Presents tutorials to promote a deeper understanding of the more complex concepts.

This book can be understood and applied by designers, engineers, business managers, consultants and product development teams who must develop reliable products. Anyone involved in this work will appreciate the time-saving, cost-effective, and result oriented techniques described.

		Coverage of the physics of failure and useful testing equipment enabling those new to the area to grasp the concepts behind HALT and HASS.
		Overview of the HALT technique demonstrating how to find design and process defects quickly using accelerated stress methodology during the design phase of the project.
		Examination of detection screens and modulated excitation used to detect flaws exposed in HALT.
		Description of how to set up a HASS profile and how to minimize costs whilst retaining efficiency.
		Applications of HALT and HASS and analysis of common mistakes highlighting the pitfalls to avoid when implementing the methods.

Practical Reliability Engineering
Patrick O’Connor

I wrote the first edition in 1981, because, as manager of reliability engineering at British Aerospace Dynamics and with experience of managing reliability programs for the Royal Air Force, I knew that there were no books available that taught reliability in a practical, effective way for engineers and managers.  All of the existing books were overwhelmingly about the mathematics of reliability.  Some described the methods covered by US Military Standards.  My message was:  reliability is achieved primarily by good engineering and management; math/stats methods have only limited practical value in reliability, and some of the MIL STD/HDBK methods are misleading and should be avoided.

The book is now in its 4th edition, and over 1000 have been sold every year since 1981.  It is still the only book on the subject that is practical, up to date, comprehensive and consistent with world class industry practice.  It covers the whole engineering cycle including design, test, manufacture and maintenance, the main technology aspects, and management.  It describes and provides practical comment on the mathematical and analytical tools, standards, etc.  It covers the requirements of the ASQ examination for Certified Reliability Engineer.

Link to Purchase:  http:// www.pat-oconnor.co.uk/practicalreliability.htm

World Class Reliability: Using Multiple Environment Overstress Tests to Make it Happen
Keki R. Bhote, Adi K. Bhote

Product excellence is no longer enough to sustain market dominance.  Manufacturers in every industry have long known that there is simply no competitive advantage in mediocre offerings, so these days every assembly line is a model of consistency and a guarantor of well crafted products.

But what happens after your product goes out the door?  Does its quality last?  Is reliability built in, and can the product withstand years of use, misuse, abuse, and torturous conditions?

World Class Reliability gives you a proven methodology for replicating a lifetime of wear and tear in a tiny fraction of the time, under completely controlled conditions.  This authoritative guide to best reliability practices shows you how to upgrade or replace your current reliability program with a comprehensive testing program known as Multiple Environment Overstress Testing, or MEOST.

Link to Purchase:  http://www.amazon.com

Random Vibration & Shock Testing
Wayne Tustin

This minimal-mathematics minimal-theory text emphasizes test and measurement hardware and practice. Based in part upon Tustin’s lecture notes, it includes new material on digital techniques for spectrum analysis and for digital control of shakers for random, sine and shock testing.

The principle focus is on random vibration and MIL-STD-810F. The author shows the need for measurements and describes the most-used instruments for quantizing displacement, velocity, acceleration and force. He discusses instrument selection, usage and calibration. Most effective readouts, including spectrum analysis, are considered. He clarifies such electronic terminology as decibels and spectral density. To provide perspective, he briefly discusses relatively obsolete sinusoidal measurements and testing, also such peripheral subjects as torsional vibration, seismic simulation, acoustic (intense noise) as well as shock measurement and testing.

Link to purchase: http://www.vibrationandshock.com/form1.htm