The challenge of quantitative reliability

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 167-176

  Blanks, Henry S ^a,b,c,d  

^a University of New South Wales ^*  (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Australia's Qual Reliability S   (Australia)

^d IEEE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Equipment users' quantitative reliability tasks; Failure reporting; Field failure data analysis; Quality yield reliability correlation; Reliability data feedback; Reliability prediction

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HARDWARE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MARKETING; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

FIELD FAILURE DATA ANALYSIS; QUALITY YIELD RELIABILITY CORRELATION; QUANTITATIVE RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY DATA FEEDBACK;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 0032064375     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1638(199805/06)14:3<167::aid-qre154>3.0.co;2-l     Document Type: Article

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