Implementing the Reliability Process
Mark A. Levin, Ted T. Kalal, Jonathan Rodin · 2019
Consumers demand products that are reliable, bug free, safe, and secure are changing the way companies develop future products. The reliability process can be applied to any organization and implemented at any time in a product development cycle. An integral part of every reliability program is the plan detailing the activities that will take place in order to ensure success. The reliability plan describes the reliability activities and defines the expected deliverables for each phase of the product life cycle. There are many reliability activities that can be performed to improve product reliability. This chapter presents a list of reliability activities for each phase of the product life cycle. The reliability of a product is determined in the design phase of the product development. The two most powerful product development reliability tools, which will improve the reliability of a product, are failure modes and effects analysis and highly accelerated life test.