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BOOK REVIEWS COMPLETED IN 2008
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Publishers:
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ISTE Ltd., U.K.
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Author:
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Nikolaos Limnios
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Fault Trees
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Year of Publication:
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2007
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Pages:
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223
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ISBN:
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1905209304
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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Review:
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Although Fault Tree Methodology was invented in USA in 1962 but fault trees have been extensively used in Europe since then and it is quite natural that a book written by a European Professor who has deep knowledge.....(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Editor:
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John Stark
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Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realization
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Year of Publication:
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2006 (3rd Printing)
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Pages:
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441
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ISBN:
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1852338105
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a new paradigm for product manufacturing, as it enables a company to manage its products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way. In today's highly competitive.....(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
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Editor:
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Robert J. Latino & Kenneth C. Latino
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Root Cause Analysis: Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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266
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ISBN:
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0849353408
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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This book brings the rich experience of a family devoted to practicing reliability over several years. The authors run a consulting firm (RCI) started by their father and have piled up experience of teaching and mentoring of several.......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
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Editor:
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Vivek Nanda
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Quality Management System Handbook for Product Development Companies
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Year of Publication:
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2005
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Pages:
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332
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ISBN:
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1574443526
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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In recent years, the product quality improvement is generally perceived through the process improvement and management. Therefore, the necessity of a good Quality Management Systems (QMS) assumes importance. The author of this book has had an extensive ........(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Editor:
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D.N.Prabhakar Murthy and Wallace R. Blischke
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Title:
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Warranty Management and Product Manufacture
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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302
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ISBN:
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1852339330
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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The two authors who are professors located across the Pacific Ocean have together written or edited two earlier books (published by Marcel Dekker in 1990 and 1994) on the subject and this is supposedly the final book on the subject from the authors and is being.......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer Verlag
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Editor:
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Hongzhou Wang & Hoang Pham
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Reliability and Optimal Maintenance
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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345
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ISBN:
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1846283248
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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Recently, some very good books on the subject of optimal maintenance policies and models have been available in the literature. This is one of them. The book provides detailed coverage of several models available in the area of imperfect maintenance, dependence......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Editor:
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U. Dinesh Kumar, John Crocker, T. Chitra and Haritha Saranga
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Title:
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Reliability and Six Sigma
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Year of Publication:
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2006
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Pages:
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385
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ISBN:
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0387302557
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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Six Sigma is essentially a measure of process capability and allows less than 3.4 defects per million opportunities. Several top companies, like Motorola (where the concept originated and was used for the first time), General Electric......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Author:
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Hiromitsu Kumamoto
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Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment
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Year of Publication:
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2007
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Pages:
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253
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ISBN:
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9781846286810
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review Complete
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Review:
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Prof. Kumamoto has previous experience of authoring four classical books on safety and risk in joint authorship with Professor E. J. Henley of the University of Houston and the books were published by Prentice Hall and IEEE Press (two each). Naturally, the present book has well-planned and structured list of contents reflecting the previous rich experience of the author particularly in the area on risk......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Author:
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Terje Aven and Vinnem Jan Erik
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Risk Management with Applications from the Off-shore Petroleum Industry
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Year of Publication:
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2007
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Pages:
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200
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ISBN:
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9781846286520
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review Complete
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Review:
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This book comes from authors who are professors at the University of Stavanger, Norway and have rich experience of researching and offering consultancy in the area of risk analysis and management, particularly with reference to off-shore oil and gas industry. The authors clarify in their preface that this book is .....(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 4, No. 3, July 2008 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Author:
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B. S. Dhillon
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Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems
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Year of Publication:
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2007
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Pages:
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182
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ISBN:
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9781846288111
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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This book comes from an author who has authored 32 books on many topics and relating them to theory of reliability, maintenance and safety engineering, while covering very many areas of applications. The complete list of his books starting from 1981 to 2008 can be found......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2009 issue)
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Publishers:
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John Wiley & Sons,Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
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Author:
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Terje Aven
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Risk Analysis: Assessing Uncertainties Beyond Expected Values and Probabilities
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Year of Publication:
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2008
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Pages:
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194
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ISBN:
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9780470517369
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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This book comes from an author who has a rich experience of teaching and offering consultancy in the area of risk analysis and management and has written some books in this area. His earlier book published in 2003 with Wiley was on Foundations of Risk Analysis – A Knowledge and Decision Oriented Perspective.......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2009 issue)
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Publishers:
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Springer
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Author:
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Alessandro Birolini
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Title:
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Reliability Engineering
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Year of Publication:
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2007 (Fifth Edition)
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Pages:
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593
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ISBN:
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3540493883
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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The author of this book is Professor Emeritus of Reliability engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich and had experience of working in electronics industry and had established a test lab for VSLIs. Therefore, it is natural that the problems and......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 5, No. 2, January 2009 issue)
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Publishers:
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John Wiley & Sons,Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
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Author:
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Guangbin Yang
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Title:
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Life Cycle Reliability Engineering
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Year of Publication:
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2007
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Pages:
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544
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ISBN:
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9780471715290
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Reviewer:
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Krishna B. Misra
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Review complete
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This book is quite different from traditional books written on reliability engineering so far and is authored by a person who has a rich industrial experience of working with Ford Motor Company. With advent of globalization, international free trade and flow of capital across nations, and .......(This review is being published in the IJPE Vol. 5, No. 2, January 2009 issue)
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