World Class Reliability: Using Multiple Environment Overstress Tests to Make it Happen
- 2h 13m
- Adi K. Bhote, Keki R. Bhote
- AMACOM
- 2004
Six Sigma has been a giant in the quality movement but has been a pygmy in improving field reliability, i.e., reducing failure rates for customers. Traditional reliability techniques are woefully inadequate and produce fictitious reliability numbers.
About the Authors
Keki Bhote (Glencoe, IL), one of the creators of Motorola’s Six Sigma, is President of Keki R. Bhote Associates, a company specializing in quality, reliability, and profit improvement. He is the author of 17 books, including The Power of Ultimate Six Sigma.
Adi Bhote (Glencoe, IL), a 13-year Motorola veteran, is Vice President of Keki R. Bhote Associates. Keki Bhote and Adi Bhote are the coauthors of World Class Quality.
World Class Reliability, by contrast, presents a powerful technique to improve reliability by factors of 10:1 and even 100:1. It is Multiple Environment Overstress Tests (MEOST), used by NASA on its famous Lunar Module. Field failures that are found, traditionally, only after months of field exposure can now be "smoked out" in hours in the design laboratory and rapidly corrected; MEOST achieves this by combining several stresses and taking them beyond design stress very, very rapidly.
The result: fantastic reliability improvements; much reduced design cost, manpower, and cycle time; speed to market well ahead of competition; customer loyalty and dramatic profit enhancements for corporations.
In this Book
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Corporate Paradise Lost and Regained—The Ten Gold Nuggets for a Dramatic Profit Increase
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A Breakthrough in Reliability—The Need, Objectives, and Benefits
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Reliability Mathematics—Complex and Ineffective
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Reliability Predictors—Cooking the Books with Reliability Cookbooks
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Reliability Estimators—A Cloudy Crystal Ball
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Reliability Demonstration—Throwing Money at the Problem
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Highly Accelerated Life Tests—HALT and HASS
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Base Camp 1—Design Reliability Infrastructure
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Base Camp 2—Essential Prerequisites for MEOST
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The Climb to the Mount Everest of Reliability—MEOST
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The Amazing Versatility of MEOST—New Applications and Challenges
