Global Vehicle Reliability

Global Vehicle Reliability promotes an understanding of the use of predictive models, failure analysis, and modelling techniques. The chapters, written by experts from Jaguar, Ford, independent industry consultants, and respected academics, emphasize the need to correlate life-testing to real world usage profiles.

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, reliability and predicting failure correctly can provide an edge, or mean commercial disaster if it is not managed well. Global Vehicle Reliability will be of interest to automotive engineers involved in reliability testing, designers, manufacturers, component suppliers, testing houses, and key automotive decision makers.

Vehicles are now global in their brand marketing, manufacture, and development. This international spread and network of research, development, supply, and assembly provides real challenges in the maintenance of high standards of reliability.

The global vehicle has to be able to perform reliably and be easy to maintain in all the world-wide territories that the manufacturer is selling into. Vehicles are becoming increasingly complex and the purchaser expects better and better reliability. The onus is on the manufacturers, their suppliers, the testing houses, and the whole international network of brand developers to meet these expectations.

Progress towards a "design for reliability" methodology for automotive components and systems

Assessing vehicle reliability using Bayesian networks

Reliability improvement in automotive engineering

Design verification using customer correlated life modelling

Comparison of fatigue testing and fatigue calculation for an aluminium-alloy brake caliper housing and the influence of global purchasing on the scatter of the S-N-curves and life prediction of aluminium components

The use of reliability and robustness on Jaguar programmes.

J. E. Strutt and P. L. Hall are the authors of Global Vehicle Reliability: Prediction and Optimization Techniques, published by Wiley.