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In this chapter we discuss some basic concepts and issues needed to get a better appreciation of the scope and focus of the book. The outline of the chapter is as follows: we start with a general discussion of products, properties, and perspectives in Section 1.2. Section 1.3 deals with product reliability and its importance. In Section 1.4 we discuss the product life cycle and indicate the different stages involved. Following this, we discuss product performance and specification in Section 1.5. These set the background to discuss the proposed methodology for making decisions with respect to reliability performance and specification in Section 1.6 and the scope and focus of the book in Section 1.7, respectively.We conclude the chapter with an outline of the book in Section 1.8 where we briefly discuss the contents of the remaining chapters.
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- Product Performance
- Actual Performance
- Product Life Cycle
- Reliability Performance
- Product Development Process
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(2008). An Overview. In: Product Reliability. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-271-5_1
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