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Track 3 Session 7
1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Wednesday June 18, 2008
Reliability Improvement Program at
Philips Healthcare BL Cardio-Vascular
The BU C/V of Philips Medical
Systems produces high-end X-ray systems that are used to visualize
arteries and blood vessels for diagnostic and interventional
purposes. Therefore, monitoring and constantly improving the
reliability of these systems is of great importance to the business
of PMS-C/V. In this presentation, it will be shown how the
reliability data of fielded systems is analyzed and transformed into
information that is used to set up an improvement program. Data is
collected and analyzed both on the system and sub-system levels (or
on the component level). Several approaches will be illustrated
that range from time series analysis on the system level to Weibull
analysis on the component level. Based on these analyses, improvement
projects are initiated. Furthermore, Design for Reliability
activities have been included in the product development process.
Until recently, the main focus was on the reliability of hardware
components. However, software has become an important part of the
overall reliability of high-end X-ray systems. Therefore, an initiative was started
recently to better understand the reliability of
the software and to introduce activities in our software development
process that focus more on the reliability. Some
of these activities will be illustrated in this presentation.
Key Words: Reliability, Data
Analysis, PDP, Improvement, Cost of Non-Quality, Software
Reliability
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