Reliability and Warranties: Methods for Product Development and Quality Improvement (Hardcover)

Product Quality and Warranty Introduction Background and Scope References Preliminary Results for Analyzing Product Failures Failure Time Distributions Fitting Distributions Counting the Number of Failures Exercises References Quality and Reliability Quality Concepts Product Reliability Load and Capacity Models Exercises References Product Warranties and Quality Definitions and Types of Warranties Warranty Cost Models Determining Optimum Warranty Periods Estimating Warranty Reserve Exercises References Product Monitoring and Feedback Quality System Monitoring and Control Multiattribute Quality Assessment Warranty Information Feedback Models MOP/MIS Charts Exercises References The Quality Improvement Process Introduction Identifying Quality Problems Developing Quality Improvement Goals Decision Analysis Framework Exercises References Toward an Integrated Product Quality System Introduction The Quality Movement A QRW (Quality, Reliability, Warranty) Paradigm Some Concluding Remarks References Appendix A: Notations and Acronyms Appendix B: Selected Tables Appendix C: Counting Distributions Binomial Counting Distribution Poisson Counting Distribution Renewal Function for Erlang (λ,2) Distributed Times Index