ABSTRACT

A guide to implementing and operating a practical reliability program using carefully designed experiments to provide information quickly, efficiently and cost effectively. It emphasizes real world solutions to daily problems. The second edition contains a special expanded section demonstrating how to combine accelerated testing with design of experiments for immediate improvement.

part |29 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|8 pages

Faster . . . Better . . . Cheaper . . .

chapter 2|7 pages

Quality and reliability

chapter 3|13 pages

Design of experiments

part |113 pages

Design of Experiments

chapter 4|16 pages

Introduction to Design of Experiments

chapter 5|15 pages

Conducting a main effects experiment

chapter 6|17 pages

Dealing with interactions

chapter 7|10 pages

Designing an experiment

chapter 8|16 pages

Analyzing DoE Results

chapter 9|16 pages

DoE in product design

chapter 10|8 pages

Managing the uncontrollable factors

chapter 11|14 pages

Application of doe to reliability assurance

part |86 pages

Reliability Engineering

chapter 12|19 pages

Reliability Measurement

chapter 13|16 pages

Graphical Reliability Methods

chapter 16|17 pages

System Reliability Methods

part |93 pages

Accelerated Testing

chapter 17|24 pages

Accelerated Testing

chapter 18|10 pages

Environmental and Operating Stresses

chapter 19|29 pages

Interpreting Data from Accelerated Tests

part |32 pages

Using Design of Experiments to Integrate Reliability Into the Organization