The background of reliability

Reliability, so important to the future of commercial and military electronics, is at last becoming quantitative. Because the scope and problems are so great, it has taken much time to arrive at definite courses of action. Now reliability is emerging from generalities and desires to a concrete stage of evaluation, implementation and measurement. Reliability (a great concern to the electronics industry) is a phase of the revolution in electronics. Implications of this revolution are seen in such diverse phenomena as the shortage of engineers, the emergence of systems engineering, automation and the problem of reliability.