Basic Reliability: An introduction to Reliability Engineering

This is an OK read for those wanting a brief introduction to reliability. However, there are no complex equations or theories that go significantly into the body of knowledge of reliability engineering. One gets a brief 120 page introduction to this complex topic. This serves the purpose of those who want the intro information. This would be a bad source to use on the CRE test. A good introduction to the subject and that is all.The writing was easy to follow. However, there were a large amount of either typos, or badly worded sentences in this book. The information was clear, but it was annoying to see words like itself spelled it self. Perhaps someone needed to check the final copy before print.

I like the basic concepts in this book. It has a manual style about it. Personally, I skimmed through it in 5 minutes. There was nothing here for anyone wanting to do detailed calculations. It is a good textbook for those who only need to know what someone else wants them to do. Knowing why is often a great incentive. If I was teaching a bunch of operators or people with a high school or college freshman level of education, I would probably consider this handbook.Please vote.

Complete crap. Do not buy. Mistakes everywhere, no logical flow, no calculus formulas........

Even though english is not my native language, after reading almost half of the book in 30minutes or so, I've found way too many mistakes. The good parts of the book come at the end, I think, in the Abbreviatons and definitions chapter, and in the "Further reading material". By tha way, the author seems to think that a bike has four wheels in page 25.

This is a good book for beginners.

This book is full of errors, inconsistencies, grammatical errors, and bad math. But has few buzz words to look up. Better to read more comprehensive book.

The book was a very informative and objective reference ,that elaborates the basic concept of reliability Engineering in a very apprehensive way.

As an introductory book is useful.

I guess I shouldn't have been expecting much since the alternatives that came up were ~£40 (~$60?). The text seems to have been printed straight from word and contains many paragraphs that lead nowhere or repeat information; many lists of things to do that seem to come from elsewhere; many incompleted thoughts. Some of the definitions of terms seem inconsistent - this is probably explained by the fact that the author does not often distinguish between calculations according to defined formulas and approximations/rules-of-thumb (being more mathematically inclined I like to know the assumptions being made).

Note notes than a book

It is very shallow and misses a lot of information. the writer need to explore more on the subject matter.

Kleines und verständliches Buch zum Theme Zuverlässigkeit in englischer Sprache. mit Berechnungsbeispiele und ein paar Grafiken. Mehr ein Buch für Spezialisten, die sich der Thema Zuverlässigkeit, Verfügbarkeit und Produktdesign und -bewährung widmen.

excellent