Your product and brand can be broken by lack of reliability and poor performance. Reliability engineering improves the effectiveness of maintenance programs and reduces repair times while meeting customer expectations.

Other benefits include:

Expectation– Products are used in environmental conditions imposed by the customer. Any product created should match these expectations and work as expected. It is also important to understand the design so as to optimise production costs and customer satisfaction.

Time– Reliability engineering and system safety minimises break down reducing waste of time and resources. Failures are also resolved quickly.

Throughput– Any breakdown leads to increased downtime which affects the system’s throughput. By applying predictive and preventive maintenance principles, machine downtime can be reduced significantly.

Reliability engineering also leads to reduction of operating expenses while maximising throughput.

Production– In the course of production, some products need run-in or burn-in which helps in identifying and eliminating failure. Reliability engineering techniques minimise time spent on burn-in and run-in operations. It also eliminates time spent carrying inventory, tooling costs, and energy costs.

Distribution– Fewer failures result in fewer spare parts. The result is minimised distribution system costs spent on storage and transportation of spare parts and logistics. It also leads to reduced labor costs.

Warranty– If the products manufactured perform without failure, there are fewer returns and servicing requests under warranty. Reliability engineering results in fewer calls to service and support product returns and minimal costs associated with warranty. 

Safety– Product failure may cause injury or loss of life. Reliability engineering and system safety assist in the identification and reduction of safety risks.

Liability– Product failures can also cause damage to or loss of property. Minimising failures reduces the exposure to liability for property loss. 

Design– Enhancing the reliability engineering capabilities of the design team through training and adequate staffing empowers the team to make informed decisions on the impact of product reliability.