"Six Sigma has been a giant in the quality movement but has been a pygmy in improving field reliability, i.e., reducing failure rates for customers. Traditional reliability techniques are woefully inadequate and produce fictitious reliability numbers.World Class Reliability, by contrast, presents a powerful technique to improve reliability by factors of 10:1 and even 100:1. It is Multiple Environment Overstress Tests (MEOST), used by NASA on its famous Lunar Module. Field failures that are found, traditionally, only after months of field exposure can now be ""smoked out"" in hours in the design laboratory and rapidly corrected; MEOST achieves this by combining several stresses and taking them beyond design stress very, very rapidly.The result: fantastic reliability improvements; much reduced design cost, manpower, and cycle time; speed to market well ahead of competition; customer loyalty and dramatic profit enhancements for corporations."
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Preface
Prologue
Part I : The Challenge for Industry : Regaining Lost Profits
Chapter 1 : Corporate Paradise Lost & Regained
Chapter 2 : A Breakthrough in Reliability - The Need
Part II : What Not to Do : Current But Ineffective Reliability Methodologies
Chapter 3 : Reliability Mathematics - Complex and Ineffective
Chapter 4 : Reliabiltiy Predictors - Cooking the Books with
Chapter 5 : Reliability Estimators - A Cloudy Crystal Ball
Chapter 6 : Reliability Demonstration - Throwing Money at the Problem
Chapter 7 : Highly Accelerated Life Test - HALT & HASS
Part III : The Climb to Meost : The Mound Everest of Reliability
Chapter 8 : Base Camp 1-Design Reliability Infrastructure
Chapter 9 : Base Camp 2-Essential Prerequisites for MEOST
Chapter 10 : The Climb to the Moust Everest of Reliability - MEOST
Chapter 11 : The Amazing Versatility of MEOST - New
Appendix : Laboratory Equipment/Chambers for MEOST
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