Posts Tagged ‘failure rate’
Life Cycle Costing for Product Design Choices
It costs our customers to own our designed products. It costs them initially to purchase it, but it also costs them to use it, maintain it, repair it, and eventually dispose of it. And it costs our company in ways too, like processing, training requirements for customers, and warranty repair costs. Life cycle costing can…
Read MoreUsing Failure Rate Functions to Drive Early Design Decisions
We have good requirements for the reliability of our design. We also have a preliminary design with ideas of how we’re going to manufacture it. Is our design idea good enough? Are there things we should do to improve its performance and reliability? For a physical product, there are three general stages in its life…
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