Reliability technology, or fault technology, improves the reliability of the product by assessment and analysis. In other words, it is the technology to avoid making a faulty product.
The reliability test is done to predict the product's duration of use.
*The difference between failure and defect
・Defective products are defective from the moment they are produced.
・Broken products were conforming products when they were produced, but became defective products over time.
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