There is Lot More to Reliability than Reliability

The impact of reliability extends far beyond reliability itself. It establishes the cost of repair, maintenance and logistics, and the indirect costs of unavailability, downtime, and the cost of safety recalls throughout the life of the product. This paper presents an outside-the-box view of how to get the best results by aiming at twice the life in the product definition and by preventing the failure modes resulting in an extraordinary return on investment.