Manfred_Nowak wrote:
Since last month the new field of "ultra high reliability" is teached at a university in germany:http://www.presse.uni- wuerzburg.de/einblick_archiv/archiv2010/einblick1037/montenegro0/-manfred
It's about time. The techniques are well-known, but since they are not taught and are not obvious, engineers often have severely mistaken notions about how to achieve reliability, and have to learn the hard way.