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The designer who aims to attain functionality, versatility, quality, and reliability at the same time is confronted with a very difficult task. Versatility demands more complex design and complexity is bound to pose many more demands for a strict quality control discipline. It may also adversely affect equipment reliability.
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For instance, using much higher voltage in life testing incandescent lamps.
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r could also be seen as the average component reliability, but it is unwise to use averages in reliability studies.
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Care must be exercised to create a permissive attitude in the course of questioning, and not to push too hard for plausible answers or to reflect discredit on an individual if he or she has not been thinking in these terms and therefore cannot come up with an answer.
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Chorafas, D.N. (2013). Reliability Assurance. In: Quality Control Applications. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2966-0_6
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