Product reliability and the reliability of its emanating operational processes.

This paper addresses the problem of proper reliability management in business operations today, facing increasing demands on essential business drivers such as time to market, quality and financial profit. In this paper a general method is described of how to achieve product quality in a highly time-efficient way that will have a positive effect on the financial margin. The principle of this method is independent of a specific product under consideration, and the method is independent of the tools already used in common practice of a specific business. Moreover, this method offers a company a methodology to control the development and realization of product quality in a business-wise effective way. By doing so, the extent to which a company applies this method reflects its capability to deal with the severe conditions imposed on the business drivers. In this way the extent of application may serve as an indication for the reliability of its operational business processes.