Reliability, Maintainability and Risk deals with all aspects of reliability, maintainability and safety-related failures in a simple and straightforward style, explaining technical terms and jargon and pre-supposing no prior knowledge of the subject. The author explains dealing with numerical data, making realistic predictions using the minimum of mathematics, and handling the limitations of reliability parameters.
This text give a preliminar approach to maintenance topic. Although author's competence in this field is wide and well-known, the text is too straightforward and direct. Thus, it'll be useful only to people that know a little about maintenance and reliability. On the other side, this is one of the texts that analyzes human factor risk assessment.