Abstract

Carl and Fred discussing the three most important principles that summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies, focusing on the third principle.

Key Points

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the third reliability principle: “Reliability practices must be integrated into overall product development and design processes.”

Topics include:

• Product Development Process is company-wide effort.
• Roles and responsibilities of employees in achieving reliability needs definition in stage gates and work instructions.
• Reactive reliability is not effective reliability.
• Good reliability practices become part of culture of company = proactive.
• Design Guides can support good designs.
• Rotating management can impede long term reliability implementation

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques, to field data analysis approaches.

SOR 370 Principle 3 Integrating Reliability with Development ProcessCarl S. Carlson

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Show Notes

Three important principles summarize the reliability philosophy of successful companies:

1. Knowing how to calculate reliability is important, but knowing how to achieve reliability is more important.
2. Reliability must be designed into products and processes.
3. Reliability practices must be integrated into overall product development and design processes.

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