Today engineering systems are an important element of the world economy and each year billions of dollars are spent to develop manufacture operate and maintain various types of engineering systems around the globe. Many of these systems are highly sophisticated and contain millions of parts. For example a Boeing jumbo 747 is made up of approximately 4. 5 million parts including fasteners. Needless to say reliability safety and maintenance of systems such as this have become more important than ever before. Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers to produce highly reliable safe and maintainable engineering products. Therefore there is a definite need for the reliability safety and maintenance professionals to work closely during design and other phases. Engineering Systems Reliability Safety and Maintenance: An Integrated Approach eliminates the need to consult many different and diverse sources in the hunt for the information required to design better engineering systems. . Language: English