Applied Reliability for Industry 3 illustrates the multidisciplinary state-of-the-art science of operational reliability. Many experts are now convinced that reliability is not limited to statistical sciences. In fact, many different disciplines interact in order to bring a product to its highest possible level of reliability, made available through today's technologies, developments and production methods.

These three books, of which this is the third, propose new methods for analyzing the lifecycle of a system, enabling us to record the development phases according to development time and levels of complexity for its integration.

Operational reliability, as presented in Applied Reliability for Industry 3, verifies the reliability performance of the mechatronic system in real life through an analysis of field data.

Abdelkhalak El Hami is Full Professor of Universities at INSA-Rouen-Normandie, France. He is the author/co-author of several books and is responsible for several European pedagogical projects. He is a specialist in fluid structure interaction and problems of optimization and reliability in multi-physical systems.

David Delaux is Reliability Director at Valeo and Reliability Senior Expert. An Honorary Visiting Professor at Bradford University, UK, he is also a national auditor/assessor at COFRAC (ISO 17025), President of the European Campus of Statistics Statistical Analysis For Industry (SAFI), Expert for the European Innovation Council and President of the association ASTE. He is also the former President of the European Reliability Environmental Confederation (CEEES).

Henri Grzeskowiak is a Technical Expert at Matra BAe Dynamics and MBDA (missile). He is also an auditor at COFRAC, Head of Department of Environmental Engineering (Matra & MBDA) as well as former President of the Standardization Committee for Mechanical & Climatic Environment (DGA) and of the association ASTE (France) and CEEES (Europe).