Robust design and reliability engineering

The following research paper was discussed at the IEEE Workshop on Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability.

Learn what robust design and reliability engineering really is.

Robust Design (RD) Methodology is discussed for hardware development. Comparison is made with reliability engineering (RE) tools and practices. Differences and similarities are presented.
Proximity to ideal function for robust design is presented and compared to physics of failure and other reliability modeling and prediction approaches . Measurement selection is shown to strongly differentiates RD and reliability engineering methods When and how to get the most from each methodology is outlined.