Abstract
In today's technological world nearly everyone depends upon the continued functioning of a wide array of complex machinery and equipment for their everyday health, safety, mobility and economic welfare. Continual assessment of product reliability, and on-going control of the reliability, is a critical necessity in today's competitive business arena.This chapter describes the terms, models and techniques used to evaluateand predict product reliability.This chapter can be accessed via url
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