Reliability Engineering Insights: Assess - Design - Manage

This book is intended for engineers whose responsibility is the reliability performance of a product. But it could also be used by managers and inexperienced reliability engineers to help build-in reliability while developing quality products.

This book is intended for engineers whose responsibility is the reliability performance of a product. But it could also be used by managers and inexperienced reliability engineers to help build-in reliability while developing quality products. This work stems from my own experiences and knowledge gained while developing and manufacturing of electronic and inkjet products. The driving goal for the book was to make the reliability engineer a significant contributor to the final product performance and highlight the many factors that influence product's reliability.

Basic Understanding of Reliability from a Business Perspective

Topics include factors that influence the reliability approach, tools for today's reliability challenges, reliability engineer's expectations in today's business environment, and an extensive appendix describing a wide range of tools common to reliability engineering.

After college, Mr. Hart worked for Navy Microelectronic labs in failure analysis, MRC consulting doing modeling of radiation effects on satellites, and then (over the last 34 years) HP Personal group in the area of product development and technology applications. At HP, product types included integrated circuits, calculators, inkjet printers, projectors, and TVs. These products were developed using the principles discussed in this book. He was referred to by his peers at HP as 'Mr. Reliability'. The experience in the Navy labs providing a perspective of things that can go wrong with the best design approaches to use. Education background was in Solid State Physics (MS) and Mathematics (BS) at Western Washington State University.