How Reliable is Your Product?
50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability
By: Mike Silverman
Published: January 3, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 370 pages
ISBN-10: 1-60773-060-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-60773-060-6
Publisher: Super Star Press
"Reliability is an interesting discipline because there are many techniques you can use to solve problems and create a reliable product", writes Certified Reliability Engineer and Founder and Managing Partner at reliability engineering consultancy, Ops A La Carte, Mike Silverman in his reader friendly and very practical book How Reliable is Your Product? 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability. The author describes fifty ideas to improve and revolutionize the process of designing, manufacturing, testing, and measuring product reliability from a overall viewpoint.
Mike Silverman understands that guidelines and best practices for ensuring reliability are important, but it's more crucial to find techniques and methods that work best for the individual company. Many factors come into play in the techniques selection including company size and culture, market considerations, and customer experience. The author provides a total of fifty different techniques for design reliability, but acknowledges that not all of the methods are needed in every organization. Mike Silverman provides an overarching framework of guidelines and improvement concepts that can be incorporated flexibly to best suit the business needs. The author encourages every company to design and develop an individualized reliability program that suits their own specific requirements and organizational goals.
Mike Silverman (photo left) moves beyond the traditional back end based method of testing product reliability of trying to break the product. Instead, the author turns that thinking upside down and proposes building reliability into the design from the very beginning. The front end approach to reliable not only develops potentially superior products, but takes customer and testing considerations into account through the entire process from concept to customer. At the same time, a company can create meaningful metrics for measuring product reliability that can detect problems much more quickly than a traditional back end testing model. For Mike Silverman, reliability is no longer a separate and siloed part of the design and manufacturing process, but is an integral part of the overall system. The concept of Reliability Integration, and its holistic approach to product reliability is a key element of the book, that transforms the company design culture from one of separate groups into one where an overall big picture consideration of reliability becomes the norm.
For me, the power of the book is how Mike Silverman transforms the entire approach to reliability from one of separate operations to one of an integrated whole. The author provides an approachable and engaging examination of reliability engineering and testing, that is readily understandable by both engineers and non-engineers within the organization. The minimal number of mathematical formulas will definitely appeal to managers, who lack a background in higher mathematics, but seek a clear overview of the concept of a holistic and integrated system for reliability. At the same time,
Mike Silverman presents a high level examination of the topic that will appeal to managers looking to incorporate reliability into all phases of their system, including design, manufacture, testing, and measuring of products. The author enhances his concepts with succinct and concise case studies that illustrate the various techniques in the real world. A handy glossary of common engineering and reliability acronyms is a valuable extra feature of the book as well.
I highly recommend the essential and must read book How Reliable is Your Product? 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability by Mike Silverman, to anyone seeking a high level, overview approach to product reliability. This book considers all aspects of reliability as part of an integrated whole, where all areas of the process fit together as one system.
Read the idea packed and reliability transformational book How Reliable is Your Product? 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability by Mike Silverman, and discover how to develop a unique reliability program that suits the needs of your company. The author dispenses with one size fits all, and mandatory best practices, while encouraging creative approaches to the overall concept of reliability. This book is a treasure trove of information and concepts for any product reliability engineers and managers.
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