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Reflections
In a divergence from the typical formatting of a book “Foreword,” we wanted to use
this introduction to reect on the career of our father, Charles J. Latino, who made the
successes of the Reliability tools described in this text possible over 40 years ago.
Charles J. Latino
Father of Manufacturing Reliability
1929–2007
Charles was known as the “Father of Manufacturing Reliability” as he founded and
directed the rst corporate Reliability Engineering Department in heavy manufac-
turing 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 ...