Repairable Systems Reliability

Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management

“…To the limited extent that such systems are discussed, the treatment is predominantly scattered throughout the earlier parts of the handbook, rather than in the more appropriate Part 4, "Mathematics 494 BOOK REVIEWS of Reliability." Writing about the very limited treatment of repairable systems throughout the reliability literature, Easterling (1985) stated, "There is a terrible gap between what reliability theorists write about and what happens in practice" (p. 439). Unfortunately, this book does not even acknowledge the existence of the gap, much less attempt to narrow it.…”