Reliability in a time-driven product development process

✍ Scribed by Yuan Lu; H. T. Loh; Y. Ibrahim; P. C. Sander; A. C. Brombacher

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 83 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0748-8017
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1638(199911/12)15:6<427::aid-qre289>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

Fierce competition in the marketplace has led to industry giving a high priority to achieving time-to-market profitability. This results in an increasing pressure to introduce new products in a shorter time. At the same time, owing to new technological innovations, the complexity of the products increases as well. An additional pressure is that the customers also expect a high reliability of these complex and sometimes expensive products. This means that increasingly complex products have to be developed in a shorter time with higher levels of quality and reliability. In this paper we demonstrate by use of a case study how quality and reliability can be managed in a time-driven product development process (PDP). A general PDP is discussed first, then the case study is given, and finally it is discussed in general how high reliability can be combined with short time to market.