Handbook of Performability Engineering

The editor of the Handbook of Performability Engineering, Dr. Krishna B. Misra, a retired eminent professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, took to reliability nearly four decades ago and is a renowned scholar of reliability. Professor Misra was awarded a plaque by the IEEE Reliability Society in 1995 “in recognition of his meritorious and outstanding contributions to reliability engineering and furthering of reliability engineering education and development in India”. Upon his retirement in 2005 from IIT, Kharagpur, where he established the first ever postgraduate course on reliability engineering in India in 1982, and Reliability Engineering Centre in 1983, he launched the International Journal of Performability Engineering in 2005 and has since led the journal as its inaugural Editor-in-Chief. Two years after successfully establishing the International Journal of Performability Engineering, Prof. Misra has now taken up the responsibility of editing the Handbook of Performability Engineering, which is being published by Springer. The timely publication of this handbook necessarily reflects the changing scenario of the 21st century’s holistic view of designing, producing and using products, systems, or services which satisfy the performance requirements of a customer to the best possible extent.

Performability Engineering: An Essential Concept in the 21st Century.- Engineering Design: A Systems Approach.- A Practitioner’s View of Quality, Reliability and Safety.- Product Design Optimization.- Constructing a Product Design for the Environment Process.- Dependability Considerations in the Design of a System.- Designing Engineering Systems for Sustainability.- The Management of Engineering.- Engineering Versus Marketing: An Appraisal in a Global Economic Environment.- The Performance Economy: Business Models for the Functional Service Economy.- Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology: A Dire Need for 21st Century Manufacturing.- Quality Engineering and Management.- Quality Engineering: Control, Design and Optimization.- Statistical Process Control.- Engineering Process Control: A Review.- Six Sigma — Status and Trends.- Computer Based Robust Engineering.- Integrating a Continual Improvement Process with the Product Development Program.- Reliability Engineering: A Perspective.-Tampered Failure Rate Load-Sharing Systems: Status and Perspectives.- O(kn) Algorithms for Analyzing Repairable and Non-repairable k-out-of-n:G Systems.- Imperfect Coverage Models: Status and Trends.- Reliability of Phased-mission Systems.- Reliability of Semi-Markov Systems in Discrete Time: Modeling and Estimation.- Binary Decision Diagrams for Reliability Studies.- Field Data Analysis for Repairable Systems: Status and Industry Trends.- Reliability Degradation of Mechanical Components and Systems.- New Models and Measures for Reliability of Multi-state Systems.- A Universal Generating Function in the Analysis of Multi-state Systems.- New Approaches for Reliability Design in Multistate Systems.- New Approaches to System Analysis and Design: A Review.- Optimal Reliability Design of a System.- MIP: A Versatile Tool for Reliability Design of a System.- Reliability Demonstration in Product Validation Testing.- Quantitative Accelerated Life-testing and Data Analysis.- HALT and HASS Overview: The New Quality and Reliability Paradigm.- Modeling Count Data in Risk Analysis and Reliability Engineering.- Fault Tree Analysis.- Common Cause Failure Modeling: Status and Trends.- A Methodology for Promoting Reliable Human-System Interaction.- Risk Analysis and Management: An Introduction.- Accident Analysis of Complex Systems Based on System Control for Safety.- Probabilistic Risk Assessment.- Risk Management.- Risk Governance: An Application of Analytic-deliberative Policy Making.- Maintenance Engineering and Maintainability: An Introduction.- System Maintenance: Trends in Management and Technology.- Maintenance Models and Optimization.- Replacement and Preventive Maintenance Models.- Effective Fault Detection and CBM Based on Oil Data Modeling and DPCA.- Sustainability: Motivation and Pathways for Implementation.- Corporate Sustainability: Some Challenges for Implementing and Teaching Organizational Risk Management in a Performability Context.- Towards Sustainable OperationsManagement Integrating Sustainability Management into Operations Management Strategies and Practices.- Indicators for Assessing Sustainability Performance.- Sustainable Technology.- Biotechnology: Molecular Design in a Globalizing World.- Nanotechnology: A New Technological Revolution in the 21st Century.- An Overview of Reliability and Failure Mode Analysis of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS).- Amorphous Hydrogenated Carbon Nanofilm.- Applications of Performability Engineering Concepts.- Reliability in the Medical Device Industry.- A Tasks-based Six Sigma Roadmap for Healthcare Services.- Status and Recent Trends in Reliability for Civil Engineering Problems.- Performability Issues in Wireless Communication Networks.- Performability Modeling and Analysis of Grid Computing.- Status and Trends in the Performance Assessment of Fault Tolerant Systems.- Prognostics and Health Monitoring of Electronics.- RAMS Management of Railway Tracks.- Cost-Benefit Optimization Including Maintenance for Structures by a Renewal Model.- Reliability and Price Assessment and the Associated Risk Control for Restructured Power Systems.- Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants.- Software Reliability and Fault-tolerant Systems: An Overview and Perspectives.- Application of the Lognormal Distribution to Software Reliability Engineering.- Early-stage Software Product Quality Prediction Based on Process Measurement Data.- On the Development of Discrete Software Reliability Growth Models.- Epilogue.

Professor Krishna B. Misra is principal consultant at RAMS Consultants. He has worked for the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee; the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, which he also founded; and the Reliability Engineering Centre.

In previous years Professor Misra has also been appointed Director-Grade-Scientist at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute and Director of the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology.