Reliability management - The central enabler for advanced Technologies in Automotive

Mobility is in a transition phase from individual human controlled to assisted and autonomous driving. Also, new roles add to car manufacturers being now forced to adapt to digital service providers as cars become the ultimate mobile office. Today, functional automotive requirements start to exceed on what's on the market accompanied with huge reliability assurance process gaps along the supply chain. Standards are out dated, research data unavailable and activities to change this strongly bound to market dynamics and mass volume requirements. This is why reliability engineering and management becomes a leading role in product design and business model formation. Transparency about technological gaps and how they are being handled determine market positions. To create industry awareness, we demonstrate two examples out of an OEM driven study on mechanical induced parametric deviations which relate to corresponding product verification/validation issues that can end up in real, but which are mostly classified as no fault found (NFF) issues.