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Reliability in a time‐driven product development process
Author(s) -
Lu Yuan,
Loh H. T.,
Ibrahim Y.,
Sander P. C.,
Brombacher A. C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
quality and reliability engineering international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1099-1638
pISSN - 0748-8017
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1638(199911/12)15:6<427::aid-qre289>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , profitability index , quality (philosophy) , time to market , reliability engineering , product (mathematics) , process (computing) , new product development , competition (biology) , computer science , market share , engineering , operations research , business , marketing , mathematics , ecology , power (physics) , philosophy , physics , geometry , finance , epistemology , quantum mechanics , biology , operating system
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. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.