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Quality is the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. By this definition, quality is fuzzy but the needs are quantified by so-called critical to quality parameters (CTQs). Reliability is the probability that a system will perform its intended function under stated conditions for a specified period of time without failures. By this definition, reliability is a measure as function of time and, thus, a quantity. Reliability is often said to be the “quality over time,” but this in not correct. Reliability has its own measures, so-called critical to reliability parameters (CTR), that can have a relation to the CTQs. This chapter gives a brief history of quality and reliability, their interaction and the impact for the change within lighting into the solid-state era.
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de Groot, T., Vos, T., Vogels, R.J.M.J., van Driel, W.D. (2013). Quality and Reliability in Solid-State Lighting. In: van Driel, W., Fan, X. (eds) Solid State Lighting Reliability. Solid State Lighting Technology and Application Series, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3067-4_1
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