Toshio Nakagawa is Professor of Engineering at Aichi Institute of Technology. He is considered the world leader in maintenance reliability engineering and has worked in this area for thirty years. Professor Nakagawa was an invited contributor of one of the key chapters of Springer’s recent Handbook of Reliability Engineering (1-85233-453-3, 2003).

"Maintenance is likely to become the most importance aspect of system performance in 21st century. This book by Prof. Nakagawa is timely and important contribution to the literature on maintenance engineering. "The reviewer would like to recommend the book to all maintenance engineers from various industries, plants and services who intend to make use of tools available to analyze their systems to reduce overall maintenance costs, which very often bother system managers and administrators." (Krisnha B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 2, (4), 2006)

• Repair Maintenance.- Age Replacement.- Periodic Replacement.- Block Replacement.- Preventive Maintenance.- Imperfect Preventive Maintenance.- Inspection Policies.- Modified Maintenance Models.

Toshio Nakagawa is Professor of Engineering at Aichi Institute of Technology. He is considered the world leader in maintenance reliability engineering and has worked in this area for thirty years. Professor Nakagawa was an invited contributor of one of the key chapters of Springer’s recent Handbook of Reliability Engineering (1-85233-453-3, 2003).

"Maintenance is likely to become the most importance aspect of system performance in 21st century. This book by Prof. Nakagawa is timely and important contribution to the literature on maintenance engineering. "The reviewer would like to recommend the book to all maintenance engineers from various industries, plants and services who intend to make use of tools available to analyze their systems to reduce overall maintenance costs, which very often bother system managers and administrators." (Krisnha B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 2, (4), 2006)

• Repair Maintenance.- Age Replacement.- Periodic Replacement.- Block Replacement.- Preventive Maintenance.- Imperfect Preventive Maintenance.- Inspection Policies.- Modified Maintenance Models.

Toshio Nakagawa is Professor of Engineering at Aichi Institute of Technology. He is considered the world leader in maintenance reliability engineering and has worked in this area for thirty years. Professor Nakagawa was an invited contributor of one of the key chapters of Springer’s recent Handbook of Reliability Engineering (1-85233-453-3, 2003).

"Maintenance is likely to become the most importance aspect of system performance in 21st century. This book by Prof. Nakagawa is timely and important contribution to the literature on maintenance engineering. "The reviewer would like to recommend the book to all maintenance engineers from various industries, plants and services who intend to make use of tools available to analyze their systems to reduce overall maintenance costs, which very often bother system managers and administrators." (Krisnha B. Misra, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Vol. 2, (4), 2006)

• Repair Maintenance.- Age Replacement.- Periodic Replacement.- Block Replacement.- Preventive Maintenance.- Imperfect Preventive Maintenance.- Inspection Policies.- Modified Maintenance Models.