Based on deep theoretical as well as practical experience inReliability and Quality Sciences, Robust Design Methodology forReliability constructively addresses practical reliabilityproblems. It offers a comprehensive design theory for reliability,utilizing robust design methodology and six sigma frameworks. Inparticular, the relation between un-reliability and variation anduncertainty is explored and reliability improvement measures inearly product development stages are suggested.

Many companies today utilise design for Six Sigma (DfSS) forstrategic improvement of the design process, but often withoutexplicitly describing the reliability perspective; this bookexplains how reliability design can relate to and work with DfSSand illustrates this with real?world problems. Thecontributors advocate designing for robustness, i.e. insensitivityto variation in the early stages of product design development.Methods for rational treatment of uncertainties in modelassumptions are also presented.

This book

• promotes a new approach to reliability thinking that addressesthe design process and proneness to failure in the design phase viasensitivity to variation and uncertainty;
• includes contributions from both academics and industrypractitioners with a broad scope of expertise, including qualityscience, mathematical statistics and reliability engineering;
• takes the innovative approach of promoting the study ofvariation and uncertainty as a basis for reliability work;
• includes case studies and illustrative examples that translatethe theory into practice.

Robust Design Methodology for Reliability provides astarting point for new thinking in practical reliabilityimprovement work that will appeal to advanced designers andreliability specialists in academia and industry including fatigueengineers, product development and process/ quality professionals,especially those interested in and/ or using the DfSSframework.