Machine tool reliability

Abstract

This advanced text on machine tool reliability modelling aims to provide a consolidated volume on various dimensions of machine tool reliability and its implications from manufacturers and users point of view. From manufacturers point of view novel methodologies for reliability and maintenance based design of machine tools are covered. From users point of view novel methodologies are presented to integrate reliability and maintenance of machine tools with production scheduling and quality control. Application area, i.e. machine tools is very important and it covers entire manufacturing sector. The target audience of the book are researchers and practicing engineers in the field of reliability engineering and operations management. The x i i PREFACE book can also be helpful to undergraduate students in the area of reliability to get an application flavour of the subject. It opens up various research dimensions for researchers. All the approaches are illustrated with the help of numerical examples. This makes the approaches easy to understand.