Reliability Engineering ─ A Life Cycle Approach

Edgar Bradley's Reliability Engineering: A Life-Cycle Approach is based on the author's 50 years of experience in industry and academics, covering foundational reliability statistics, numerous topics not covered in other texts, plus case studies of plants in mid-life. These cases are open ended, as in real life, with not all the necessary information available, and the need for intelligent calculations to derive probable answers. Worked examples and problems are included, emphasizing students' analysis and problem-solving skills. This specific structure of the book makes it suitable for both graduate students and practicing reliability and maintenance engineers.

Edgar Bradley is a Consultant, specializing in Benchmarking, Human Capital Evaluation and RAM work (Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability). His qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (1964) and a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Akron, Ohio, USA (1969) as well as an MBA from Cranfield University, in the UK (1975). For over 40 years he has also served as a lecturer in the Faculty of Industrial Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand, lecturing and developing courses on the MSc programme on inter alia, Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Engineering, Project Management, Industrial Marketing and Systems Engineering. He has also lectured in Reliability Engineering at the University of Pretoria. In 2013 he was appointed as lecturer in Quality at the Namibian University of Science and Technology. He has commenced lectures in Reliability Engineering this year at North West University as well. For the past seven years he has worked as a Mechanical Consulting Engineer, giving consulting and training to the petroleum and other industries in the Middle East and in Southern Africa.