World Class Reliability Using Multiple Environment Overstress Tests to Make It Happen

Companies following the Six Sigma process have seen their products' initial quality statistics soar, with defects all but eliminated. But how can companies make sure the quality lasts? One method is to subject products to exaggerated conditions that simulate the wear and tear of months, years,...

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Main Authors Bhote, Keki R, Bhote, Adi K
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Saranac Lake American Management Association 2004
AMACOM
Edition1st ed.
Subjects
Engineering
Reliability (Engineering)
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ISBN9780814407929
0814407927

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Table of Contents:
  • World Class Reliability: Using Multiple Environment Overstress Tests to Make It Happen -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Prologue -- PART I: The Challenge for Industry: Regaining Lost Profits -- CHAPTER 1: Corporate Paradise Lost and Regained-The Ten Gold Nuggets for a Dramatic Profit Increase -- CHAPTER 2: A Breakthrough in Reliability-The Need, Objectives, and Benefits -- PART II: What Not to Do: Current but Ineffective Reliability Methodologies -- CHAPTER 3: Reliability Mathematics- Complex and Ineffective -- CHAPTER 4: Reliability Predictors- Cooking the Books with Reliability Cookbooks -- CHAPTER 5: Reliability Estimators- A Cloudy Crystal Ball -- CHAPTER 6: Reliability Demonstration- Throwing Money at the Problem -- CHAPTER 7: Highly Accelerated Life Tests-HALT and HASS -- PART III: The Climb to MEOST-The Mount Everest of Reliability -- CHAPTER 9: Base Camp 1-Design Reliability Infrastructure -- CHAPTER 9: Base Camp 2-Essential Prerequisites for MEOST -- CHAPTER 10: The Climb to the Mount Everest of Reliability-MEOST -- CHAPTER 11: The Amazing Versatility of MEOST-New Applications and Challenges -- Appendix: Laboratory Equipment/Chambers for MEOST -- References -- Index.
  • Preliminaries -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 Corporate Paradise Lost and Regained The Ten Gold Nuggets for a Dramatic Profit Increase -- 2 A Breakthrough in Reliability The Need Objectives and Benefits -- 3 Reliability Mathematics Complex and Ineffective -- 4 Reliability Predictors Cooking the Books with Reliability Cookbooks -- 5 Reliability Estimators A Cloudy Crystal Ball -- 6 Reliability Demonstration Throwing Money at the Problem -- 7 Highly Accelerated Life Tests HALT and HASS -- 8 Base Camp 1 Design Reliability Infrastructure -- 9 Base Camp 2 Essential Prerequisites for MEOST -- 10 The Climb to the Mount Everest of Reliability MEOST -- 11 The Amazing Versatility of MEOST New Applications and Challenges -- Appendix Laboratory Equipment Chambers for MEOST -- References -- Index