This English-language VDA publication provides a practice-oriented introduction to reliability engineering for automotive manufacturers and suppliers. It explains the reliability control loop across the design, development, production, and use phases, using wheel bearings and other technical examples to demonstrate reliability targets, test planning, Weibull analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, reliability growth, traceability, statistical evaluation, and field data analysis.
The publication is the first edition from June 2018, with the English edition published in December 2019. It is issued by the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) and is intended to support the practical application and integration of reliability methods throughout the product life cycle.
Application Scope: Automotive OEMs, suppliers, reliability engineers, quality managers, product development teams, production engineering teams, and professionals responsible for reliability assurance and field data analysis.
