Introduction/Reflections
In a divergence from the typical formatting of a book, we wanted to use this introduction to reflect on the career of our father, Charles J. Latino, who made the successes of the Reliability tools described in this text possible nearly 50 years ago.
Charles was known as the “Father of Manufacturing Reliability” as he founded and directed the first corporate Reliability Engineering Department in heavy manufacturing back in 1972 as a Research and Development (R&D) arm of Allied Chemical Corporation (more commonly known as Honeywell today). Charles was a visionary as he tried to introduce these Reliability principles ...
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