Module 1 Reliability Concepts & Data
Lesson M01-01
Text: Section 1 page 1
Duration: 18 minutes
Intense global competition and increasing customer expectationsIntense global competition and increasing customer expectations have increased the pressure on manufacturers to produce high-quality and reliable products. Improving reliability is a key element of the larger overall objective of improving product quality. The survival of any manufacturer today is dependent on its ability to produce reliable products.
Although a primary objective of reliability analysis is to improve product reliability, there are many possible reasons for collecting and analyzing reliability data. Several examples are the following:
- Assessing product reliability in the field
- Predicting product warranty costs
- Assessing the effect of a proposed design change
- Demonstrating product reliability to customers or government agencies
- Improving reliability through the use of laboratory experiments
- Providing risk assessment for safety-critical systems
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