Continuous Improvement: Tools and Techniques for Reliability Improvement

One common feature of MEMs enabled products that have crossed the threshold of prototype volumes into large-scale volume production is that in a majority of cases, the product development effort from initial prototype to final market insertion lasted much longer than planned. A major cause of this has been designing in product reliability which has tended to be more of an afterthought rather than part of an active engineering effort at the start of the development cycle.

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