Technische wetenschappen algemeen (3)
Reliability-Centered Maintenance / 2nd Edition
1999 || Hardcover || John Moubray || Elsevier
Reliability-centred Maintenance is a process used to determine - systematically and scientifically - what must be done to ensure that physical assets continue to do what their users want them to do. Widely recognised by maintenance professionals as the most cost-effective way to develop world-class maintenance strategies, RCM leads to rapid, sustained and substantial improvements in plant availability and reliability, product quality, safety and environmental integrity. The author and his ass...
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Auto-tuning / Druk 4
in theorie en praktijk
1999 || Paperback || G. Hack || MK Publishing
Dit boek geeft een uitvoerige beschrijving van de mogelijkheden voor het verhogen van de prestaties en het verbeteren van de rij-eigenschappen van de auto. De auteur, die zijn vakkennis op heeft gedaan bij BMW-Alpina en bij het autoracen, bespreekt alle aspecten van tuning, verduidelijkt door een grote hoeveelheid foto`s en tekeningen.
Vertaling en bewerking: Atte Roskam
Normal Accidents / Updated edition
Living with High Risk Technologies
1999 || Paperback || Charles Perrow || Princeton University Press
Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents.
(At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk--compl...