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PREFACE

The "Handbook of Reliability Prediction Procedures for Mechanical Equipment" has been developed by the Logistics Technology Support Group, Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) in Bethesda, Maryland. The handbook presents a new approach for determining the reliability and maintainability (R&M) characteristics of mechanical equipment. It has been developed to help the user identify equipment failure modes and potential causes of unreliability in the early design phases of equipment development, and then to quantitatively evaluate the design for R&M and determine logistics support requirements.

A software program called "MechRel" has also been developed. The Handbook and MechRel software program are available free of charge from NSWCCD. Contact information is contained in Section 1.6