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5 Techniques for Reliable Product Design

How to accelerate your time to market and launch robust products

Product failure, warranty costs and liability claims all have significant impact on your customer satisfaction and brand reputation.

To proactively address these implications, you can make sure you design a reliable product in the beginning of the development stage by utilizing the Design for Reliability (DfR) technique.

In this white paper, get insight into the Design for Reliability methodology and how it supports successful product development.

Gain five techniques for creating reliable product design and ways to implement them with analytical solutions.

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Product Reliability:

Reducing the Risks and Consequences for You and Your Customers

Product Failure

Product, system or equipment failure result in downtime and increase in customer service volume.

To address this problem, organizations must manage unplanned maintenance, which has a direct impact on teams' efficiency and bottom line.

What if you could proactively prevent product failure?

Warranty Costs

Product returns during warranty period result in costly shipping and repairs.

To avoid damaging the brand while maintaining customer satisfaction, businesses often decide to replace defective products.

What if you could accurately predict your product shelf-life?

Liability Claims

A lack of compliance can result in costly consequences, customer churn and litigation.

To prevent the risk of liability and customer dissatisfaction, companies enforce product safety recalls.

What if you could identify potential failure modes in components, assemblies, subsystems and systems?

One thing all of our clients share: Their commitment to excellence.
Our goal: To help them achieve it.

Predict and prevent product failure with Minitab's Solutions Analytics

Make use of reliability analysis tools from Minitab to estimate product, component, subsystem and system lifetime and potential failures.

You can accelerate time to market, design reliable products and identify risks of failure using Quality by Design, Monte Carlo Simulation and Failure Mode analysis tools from Minitab.

Analytics to Calculate Product Reliability

Determine lifetime characteristics of a product using both graphical and quantitative analysis methods.

Model product reliability when product failure comes from different failure types.

Minitab helps companies and institutions spot trends, solve problems, and discover valuable insights in their data. Only Minitab can deliver a comprehensive and best-in-class suite of solution analytics including data analysis, predictive analytics, process improvement, product design and reliability tools, along with a team of highly-trained experts to service, train and support Professionals on their analytics journey.

Problem Solving, Quality by Design and Simulation Tools for Reliable Product Design

Mitigate risk of failure in a process or product design by identifying potential failures and taking the actions needed to achieve projected goals.
Evaluate and understand risk in a process, project or product design, forecast the results, and optimize effortlessly with speed and efficiency.
Minitab Workspace is the ultimate toolkit to clearly visualize, optimize and map your business value with Process Maps, VSM and Fishbones as well as Monte Carlo simulation, FMEAs and SWOT Analysis templates.

Address Reliability Challenges with Minitab Training

Interested in accessing additional guidance regarding tools and skills to support your reliability initiatives?

Our 4-day Product Reliability Learning track focuses on graphical and statistical reliability tools for evaluating the lifetime of a product.

The learning track is ideal for reliability engineers, scientists, warranty analysts, process engineers, and other quality professionals who want to understand how a product performs over time.

Minitab Reliability Expert Support

If you require flexible, one-on-one support to address your business challenges, Minitab's experts can help to analyze and interpret your data for you or involve you at every step to develop a data-driven solution together.