Soft reliability, a new class of problems for innovative products: "how to approach them"

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 374-378

  Geudens, Wim H J M ^a,b,c,d   Sonnemans, Peter J M ^b,e   Petkova, Valia T ^b   Brombacher, Aarnout C ^b,e,f,g,h  

^a Philips Centre for Industrial Support   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^d Philips CFT Eindhoven ^*  (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f Faculty of Technology Management   (Netherlands)

^g Reliability of Mechanical Equipment   (Netherlands)

^h Research School BETA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Innovation; Non technical problems; Soft Reliability; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; NON-TECHNICAL PROBLEMS; SOFT RELIABILITY; UNCERTAINTY;

DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; MAINTAINABILITY; RELIABILITY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

RELIABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 27744494379     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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