Reliability is one of the most important attributes for products and processes in any company or organization. This essential work provides a powerful framework of domain-independent reliability improvement and risk reduction methods, which can significantly lower risk in any area of human activity. It reviews existing methods for risk reduction that can be classified as domain-independent and introduces the following new domain-independent reliability improvement and risk reduction methods:

• Separation
• Stochastic separation
• Introducing deliberate weaknesses
• Segmentation
• Self-reinforcement
• Inversion
• Reducing the rate of accumulation of damage
• Permutation
• Substitution

Read more about these innovative methods and their applications in improving reliability and reducing risk.