Design and development

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Part of a product lifecycle including a set of processes that transform requirement for an object into a set of detailed requirements for that object.

Physics of failure
The approach for the design and development of a reliable product to prevent failure. The approach is based on knowledge of root causes of failure mechanisms using failure-mechanism-based models or simulation tools. In PoF, a set of failure-mechanism-specific models useful when designing for reliability is constructed.

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About Fred Schenkelberg

I am the reliability expert at FMS Reliability, a reliability engineering and management consulting firm I founded in 2004. I left Hewlett Packard (HP)’s Reliability Team, where I helped create a culture of reliability across the corporation, to assist other organizations.

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