Product Durability and Reliability Testing Improves Profitability
Product durability and reliability (D&R) testing is a requirement for certain industries (medical devices, for example) and a must for companies testing to?rigorous standards.
It ensures you get the best version of your product to market, and that it performs as intended. Mostly, it legitimizes the time, resources, and money that went into your processes, from design to production.
When you implement effective product testing, you gain all the benefits of the practice and avoid the negative consequences.
Durability and reliability testing determines how long, and in what conditions, the product holds up. An easy way to think of it, although it’s not this simple, is that it’s a quality test completed over time.
When done right, reliability testing reduces the risk of product failures following release. It also makes it possible to understand your products’ life expectancy. In doing so, you can set realistic customer expectations and create cost-effective warranties (lifetime for equipment, 100,000 miles for automobiles, to name two).
The result is increased customer satisfaction, reduced costs, and improved profitability.
There are a number of ways to make a product reliable, but the most important is to test it during the product development phase.
Experts in this field say you want to start with three elements:
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Testing helps organizations understand what’s wrong with the product early in the design and development and then fix it as you go along, as you don’t want to wait until the product is finished and then do reliability testing.
In that case, it may be too late for a redesign or a fix or will be costly and cause delays to do the work.
You also need to understand your customers’ requirements (such as how durable the product might need to be if it’s used outside) and where and how the customer is going to use this product.
Want to learn more? Tonex offers Product Durability and Reliability Testing, a 2-day course where participants learn the ins and outs of the D&R testing process as well as gain insights into third-party testing facilities and what organizations can expect.
Participants will also learn the processes involved in effective product durability and reliability testing and how it benefits organizations as well as satisfies regulatory requirements.
Additionally, attendees will learn about third-party testing facilities and expected associated costs.
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