Present Worth Design of Engineering Systems with Degrading Components

Young Kap Son and Gordon J. Savage
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Young Kap Son: University of Waterloo
Gordon J. Savage: University of Waterloo

Chapter 18 in Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design, 2008, pp 361-374 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The ability of a manufacturer to design and produce a reliable and robust product that meets the customer’s short- and long-term expectations with low cost and short product development time is the key for success in today’s market. Customers’ expectations include quality at the start of a product’s life and both functionality and performance over a planned lifetime (e.g., warranty time). Quality may be defined as conformance of performance measures to specifications. Functionality is related to hard failures of components, meaning that the system ceases to function completely. Performance over time considers so-called soft failures wherein the system operates but performance measures do not meet their limit specifications. Often the design addresses only quality and it is hoped that performance and functionality will be acceptable]. However, performance and functionality over time are important to customers and must be ensured.

Keywords: Cumulative Distribution Function; Hoop Stress; Quality Loss; Tolerance Allocation; Quality Cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-113-8_18

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