Prognostics and health management of electronics.

9780470278024

Prognostics and health management of electronics.

Pecht, Michael.

John Wiley & Sons

2008

315 pages

$130.00

Hardcover

TK7870

In an effort to forecast failures and reduce life cycle costs, professional engineer Pecht (electronics products and systems, U. of Maryland) provides a road map for research and development. He takes a diagnostic approach, advocating isolating faults and systems failures to provide advance warning, preventative and predictive maintenance, attention to key factors such as load history for future design qualifications and root cause analysis, and systematic review of system availabilities. He also provides methods of reduction of inspection which results in improved performance at reduced cost and describes sensor systems for data-driven approaches, the physics of failure approach, commercially available failure tracking systems. He includes superior coverage of statistical methods and cost analysis. The result is a very good professional reference that can double as a classroom text.

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