World Class Reliability PB

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Product excellence is no longer enough to sustain market dominance. Manufacturers in every industry have long known that there is simply no competitive advantage in mediocre offerings, so these days every assembly line is a model of consistency and a guarantor of well-crafted products. But what happens after your product goes out the door? Does its quality last? Is reliability built in, and can the product withstand years of use, misuse, abuse, and torturous conditions? World Class Reliability gives you a proven methodology for replicating a lifetime of wear and tear in a tiny fraction of the time, under completely controlled conditions. This authoritative guide to best reliability practices shows you how to upgrade or replace your current reliability program with a comprehensive testing program known as Multiple Environment Overstress Testing, or MEOST. “The beauty of MEOST,” the authors state, “is its speed in generating failures.” MEOST brings, both in sequence and in combi

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KEKI R. BHOTE and ADI K. BHOTE are the authors of World Class Quality, and are President and Vice President, respectively, of Keki R. Bhote Associates, a consulting firm specializing in quality, reliability, Six Sigma, and profit improvement. Keki Bhote was one of the creators of Motorola’s original Six Sigma, the model for quality excellence worldwide, and is the author of 17 books including The Power of Ultimate Six Sigma. Mr. Bhote was selected as one of the new quality gurus of America by Quality Digest magazine. Adi Bhote is a long-term Motorola veteran, and a Six Sigma champion black belt. Table of Contents Part I The Challenge for Industry: Regaining Lost Profits • Corporate Paradise Lost and Regained • A Breakthrough in Reliability-The Need, Objectives, and Benefits • Part II What Not to do: Current but Ineffective Reliability Methodologies • Reliability Mathematics-Complex and Ineffective • Reliability Predictors-Cooking the Books with Reliability Cookbooks • Reliability Estimators-A Cloudy Crystal Ball • Reliability Demonstration-Throwing Money at the Problem • Highly Accelerated Life Tests-HALT and HASS • Part III The Climb to MEOST: The Mount Everest of Reliability • Base Camp 1-Design Reliability Infrastructure • Base Camp 2-Essential Prerequisites for MEOST • The Climb to the Mount Everest of Reliability-MEOST • The Amazing Versatility of MEOST-New Applications and Challenges • Appendix • References Index