Product Reliability Achievement at the Design Phase (Invited Paper)

In today's increasingly competitive markets, leading engineering organizations need to capitalize on every available opportunity to increase the quality oftheir products while reducing the length of the development cycle and manufacturing costs. This paper presents an integral approach for the reliability validation process of a product in the automotive industry. The stress/strength concepts are applied to estimate and validate the product reliability in which case both stress and strength are random occurring parameters within the reliability validation process. The simulation approach using vinual prototypes is presented as well.