Establishing a product reliability goal must be
exhaustive in the sense that your product's desired
life expectancy, its operating functions and its
performance objectives should be identified clearly
and with specificity to business goals.
You need to do more than state that your
product's reliability goal is to be 'better than
last year's product', or 'have a 5-year lifespan'.
Reliability goals must be robust and detailed,
including past products' field performance, market
positioning, cost of failures, technical capabilities
and more.
The Definitive Guide to an Electronic Assembly Design Review / 3
The design review process follows a series of nine steps
that are used to determine the reliability of a product
design. Let's go into further detail about each step:
The Design Review Process
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Establishing a Reliability Goal
