The growth of Q & R has been fuelled by increasing sophistication and complexity of system and organisational awareness to produce and market high quality and reliability products and services by the consumer and global market pressures.

This subject being interdisciplinary in nature has also brought about a convergence of numerous solution strategies employing Fuzzy Sets, Artificial Neural Nets, Modeling and Simulation, Knowledge Base Systems, Operations Research and Mathematical Programming to achieve high Reliability. This book is intended for both the beginner and practitioner from manufacturing and service sector, research laboratories and academic institutions. This book is unique also as it gives an insight into the current practices and future directions.