• Corpus ID: 111638640

RELIABILITY BASED METHODOLOGY FOR VENDOR SELECTION- A CASE STUDY

@inproceedings{Garg2014RELIABILITYBM,
  title={RELIABILITY BASED METHODOLOGY FOR VENDOR SELECTION- A CASE STUDY},
  author={Damodar Garg and P. S. Sarma Budhavarapu and C Sudhangshu},
  year={2014}
}

• D. Garg, P. S. S. Budhavarapu, C. Sudhangshu
• Published 2014
• Business

The objective of every industry is to manufacture and supply products that will perform its intended functions without fail in the actual field. A reliable design (there is a misconception that a reliable design will always give a reliable product) may not necessarily turn out to be a reliable product always. Even if a product having reliable design is manufactured and used in the field its reliability may be unsatisfactory. The reason for this low reliability may be the product was poorly manufactured by using substandard manufacturing processes. Therefore to produce a reliable product, evaluation of manufacturing processes or vendors is necessary. In this work an attempt has been made to formulate a methodology which will help in evaluating the design reliability as well as the vendor selection process. The proposed methodology includes reliability prediction to effectively predict the design reliability and HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing) for vendor selection by qualitatively comparing the prototypes of same design manufactured by different vendors. A case study on a power electronic product is included to explain the methodology.