Reliability Theory With Applications to Preventive Maintenance

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Summary: HIghly readable yet dense with theory
Review: Refreshingly well-written and organized. Good graphics and figures. Focuses on the main issues of maintanence strategy, both from a rigorous numerical point of view and a practical point of view. More discussion of general modeling techniques of entire systems would be useful, especially when considering the design phase of a life-cycle cost analysis.

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Summary: Book review
Review: This modest and well organized book explores detailed case studies of the challenging area devoted to Reliability and Preventive Maintenance for practitioners, researchers and students specializing in Operations Research, Reliability, Quality Control and Logistics. An outstanding feature of the book is detailed numerical solutions to many problems solved with the help of Mathematica software. This makes easy for usage both by the lecturer and by the student. It may be highly recommended not only for the academic level and University libraries, but also for use by practitioners and we hope that the modest price of $74 is worth dealing with such an original and research priceless material, which is a valuable contribution to the fields of reliability and Preventive Maintenance research and studies.

Dr. Ilia B. Frenkel, Negev Academic College of Engineering, [e-mail]

Dr. Alex Tsookerman, Sapir Academic College

Israel, 13.06.01