Cost information and decision-making of quality warranty in product design

Warranty is an important part of new product development recent. Understanding and reducing warranty cost often focuses exclusively on the analysis of product design strategy which have a serious impact on the warranty servicing cost. Effective management of product warranty cost must take into account the link between warranty method and design strategy. Product design is a availability to at the first stage reduce warranty cost. This paper provides the cost information model and product quality warranty decision-making in product life cycle, and develops a cost model needed for effective management of warranty cost.