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- Title
The challenge of quantitative reliability.
- Authors
Blanks, Henry S.
- Abstract
After examining the need of the equipment/system user to receive, collect, analyse and supply quantitative reliability information, this paper discusses the methods, existing and potential, of satisfying this need. It does so against the background of the now widely acknowledged inaccuracy of traditional methods of reliability prediction, the recognition that the conventional failure-rate bathtub curve is an oversimplification and the difficulty of gathering adequate test and field failure data on increasingly high-reliability product in an age of fast technology evolution and short new product lead-time markets. There are three important tasks for the equipment user: (a) establishment of an efficient system of failure data collection and analysis; (b) utilization of these data in all business and organizational activities; (c) participation in the creation of an accurate method of reliability prediction by providing feedback of field reliability data to product manufacturers. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
RELIABILITY in engineering; FAILURE time data analysis; ENGINEERING; ARRHENIUS equation
- Publication
Quality & Reliability Engineering International, 1998, Vol 14, Issue 3, p167
- ISSN
0748-8017
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-1638(199805/06)14:3<167::AID-QRE154>3.0.CO;2-L