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Introduction to Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety

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This chapter presents various introductory aspects of reliability, maintainability, and safety considered useful to understand subsequent chapters. Some of the topics covered in the chapter are reliability networks, commonly used methods in reliability analysis, maintainability functions, maintainability analysis tools, safety analysis methods, and safety indexes.

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Mining System Total Quality Management Fault Tree Fault Event Fault Tree Analysis 
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