Speed to Market, Product Durability, and Ruggedness Could Become the Victim of Business Reality

摘要

With many industries, companies and individuals using, adopting and investigating new testing techniques that drive towards identifying failures instead of quantifying statistical reliability the need to quantify the success of a "fail and fix" approach is growing. Test methods such as FMVT and HALT do not quantify reliability but identify failure modes and root causes. In the business of producing a product, purchased items that are designed through a failure mode identification approach are missing a key contractual measure. A reliability estimate. Speed to market, and increased product durability and ruggedness could become the victim of business reality. If a product is to be tested to failure and then fixed, how are the failure modes and fixes quantified to provide a contractual measure? This article will examine methods for quantifying and contracting test to failure to avoid losing time with antiquated contract requirements.