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LIFE CYCLE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

Life Cycle Reliability Engineering. Guangbin Yang
Copyright  2007 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 978-0-471-71529-0

LIFE CYCLE
RELIABILITY
ENGINEERING

Guangbin Yang
Ford Motor Company

JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-471-71529-0 (cloth)
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To Ling, Benjamin, and Laurence

CONTENTS

Preface

xi

1 Reliability Engineering and Product Life Cycle

1

1.1 Reliability Engineering, 1
1.2 Product Life Cycle, 2
1.3 Integration of Reliability Engineering into
the Product Life Cycle,5
1.4 Reliability in the Concurrent Product Realization Process, 6
Problems, 7
2 Reliability Definition, Metrics, and Product Life Distributions
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9

9

Introduction, 9
Reliability Definition, 10
Reliability Metrics, 12
Exponential Distribution, 17
Weibull Distribution, 19
Mixed Weibull Distribution, 22
Smallest Extreme Value Distribution, 24Normal Distribution, 26
Lognormal Distribution, 28
Problems, 31

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3 Reliability Planning and Specification
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5

Introduction, 33
Customer Expectations and Satisfaction, 34
Reliability Requirements, 41
Reliability Program Development, 48
Reliability Design and Design for Six Sigma, 61
Problems, 64

4 System Reliability Evaluation and...