Recent Developments on Reliability, Maintenance and Safety

This volume contains papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance and Safety Engineering (QR2MSE 2014). The meeting brought together leading academics, industry practitioners, and research scientists from around the world to advance the body of knowledge available in the quality, reliability, maintenance, and safety of engineering systems.Topics of covered include the following: Quality Engineering; Survival Data Analysis; Quality Assurance and Cost Issues; Data Collection and Analysis; Quality Planning and Measurements; Prognostics and Health Management; Total Quality Management Techniques; Condition-based Maintenance; Experimental Design for Quality Control; Equipment Management and Maintenance; Methodologies for Quality Control; E-maintenance; Reliability Theory and Application; Maintenance Engineering Theory and Application; Reliability Testing and Statistics; Reliability Centred Maintenance; Product Reliability and Safety Evaluation; Software Maintenance; Human Factors and Reliability; Emergency Maintenance; Software Reliability and Testing; Maintenance Support Modelling and Simulation; Structural Reliability; Maintainability Engineering Theory and Application; Mechanism Reliability; Contractor Logistics Theory and Practice; Mechanical Reliability; Robust Design; Network Reliability; Optimal Design; Reliability Tools for Product Development; Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation; Risk Assessment Methods; Failure of Physics.