Reliability and product assurance engineers need to design, manufacture, test and deliver to the customer products with optimum reliability (minimum life-cycle cost), which are easy to maintain, safe to operate, of highest quality, and sold at competitive prices. This book tells the reliability engineer and the reliability engineering and product assurance manager and director, in a concise manner, all the necessary aspects of this important subject area.
Included are: basic definitions, reliability metrics, comparison with other quality disciplines, equipment program life cycle phases, reliability improvement activities throughout the life-cycle phases, four basic steps to better equipment reliability, reliability growth mechanisms, reliability testing and reliability organization.
This book also outlines a systematic approach to buying reliable parts, and a step-by-step procedure to evaluate the effectiveness of an organization wide reliability improvement program. It should be on the desk of every reliability engineering practitioner. -- Professor Dimitri Kececioglu, University of Arizona.
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Today's highly competitive, global marketplace demands an optimum level of equipment reliability. To achieve world-class reliability, everyone in an organization must participate or have adequate knowledge of the reliability discipline. This book, first of its kind, is a guidebook to the reliability discipline for design, manufacturing and service engineers, management and others who can actively contribute to equipment reliability. Dr. Dhudshia's book was the result of a lecture series developed at SEMATECH while on assignment from Texas Instruments.
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