"After months of preparation, practice and planning, the season's race championship can rely on just one fastener doing its job. If that fastener shears or loosens, the whole race can be lost--not to mention valuable machinery and perhaps even lives."

"Failure does not have to happen. If the persons responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of the equipment had done their job properly, it could have not happened. If the persons responsible for maintenance had read--and understood--this book, it probably would not have."
--Carroll (Preface)