• DocumentCode
    1487553
  • Title

    Commentary: reliability-past, present, and future

  • Author

    O´Connor, Patrick D T

  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2000
  • Firstpage
    335
  • Lastpage
    341
  • Abstract
    The paper reviews the nature of reliability in relation to the causes of failures of engineering products, explains how most of the methods that have been developed and applied by reliability and quality specialists have been misleading and ineffective, and makes suggestions for the way ahead.
  • Keywords
    ISO standards; engineering; failure analysis; quality control; reliability; reviews; engineering product failure causes; production quality; quality specialists; reliability; Automata; Books; Education; Humans; Production; Productivity; Quality management; Reliability engineering; Structural rings; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Reliability, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9529
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/24.922485
  • Filename
    922485