This edition offers you unsurpassed coverage of all aspects of reliability engineering and management, including reliability issues in electronic components and systems, software, and mechanical devices. Preface, Introduction and Definitions and Relationships, The Role of Management in Reliability, Managing Reliability as a Process, Economics of Reliability, Design of Reliability, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault-Tree Analysis (FTA) (Success-Tree Analysis - STA), Reliability Specifications and Goal Setting, Concurrent Engineering, Human-Centered Design, Reliability Information Collection and Analysis, Designing Experiments to Measure and Improve Reliability, Accelerated Testing, Failure Analysis System - Root Cause and Corrective Action, Physics of Failure, Maintainability and Reliability, Component Reliability, Thermal Management and Reliability of Electronics, Mechanical Stress and Analysis, Mechanical Reliability, Design for Mechanical Reliability, System Reliability, Software Reliability and the Development Process, Supplier Reliability and Quality Assurance, Techniques of Estimating Reliability at Design Stage, Life Distributions and Concepts, Index.