Intersection of Systems and Reliability Engineering during New Product Development Process

The time spent from the conceptual stage to the final product design, development and deployment needs to be competitively small in order to be successful in today’s market place. Working with fewer samples within fewer numbers of design iterations, reducing the time between two design iterations, and achieving higher reliability among such iterations are some of the main challenges of the new product development (NPD) process. In this process, strategies of both systems and reliability engineering can be utilized for speedier goal achievement at different NDP stages. Examples from the appliance industry are used to demonstrate the utility of these strategies.