Special issue: Building reliability into products during the product development process

International Journal of Product Development 5(1/2) 2008

• Perspectives and challenges for product reliability assurance in the product development process
• Reliability specification in new product development
• Design-for-six-sigma for multiple response systems
• Reliability-based design optimisation of vehicle drivetrain dynamic performance
• A single-loop method for reliability-based design optimisation
• Risk-averse reliability optimisation in electronic product design with component and non-component failures
• Effecting product reliability and life cycle costs with early design phase product architecture decisions
• Application of fuzzy methodology to build process reliability: a practical case
• Functional guarantees: a new service paradigm
• Development of a low-cost smart-card-based secure and reliable information exchange system with tamper-proofing features
• Design development through an integrated approach: a case study of battery-operated passenger cart
• Product quality pointers for small lots production: a new driver for Quality Management Systems