Reliability Analysis with Minitab

Kishore Kumar Pochampally's guide shows reliability engineers how to carry out statistical reliability studies in Minitab, a widely used statistics package. It covers the probability theory behind reliability work, the principles of quality improvement, and a step-by-step explanation of each Minitab procedure.

The book presents Minitab's reliability tools for practical jobs, such as checking whether lifetime data follows a given distribution and projecting the warranty costs a product may generate. Readers are shown the shapes of the distributions most often used in reliability analysis. Parametric and nonparametric methods, warranty analysis, accelerated life testing, reliability test plans and probit analysis are each explained in plain language.

The text is supported by numerous case studies and more than 200 screenshots. It is aimed at quality and reliability professionals in both service and manufacturing industries who want to find the causes of product failures and reduce the costs they create.