Establishing a relationship between warranty and reliability

IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 184-190

  Pecht, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Could not duplicate (CND); Field returs; Intermittent failure; No fault found (NFF); Reliability; Warranty

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MARKETING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY;

INTERMITTENT FAILURE; OUT-OF-WARRANTY RETURNS; WARRANTY;

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING;

EID: 33750105298     PISSN: 1521334X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEPM.2006.881765     Document Type: Article

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