Aging and Total Quality Management: Extending the Reliability Metaphor for Longevity
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Reliability models of longevity can be usefully extended in several directions. In particular, rather than simply optimizing parameters within a structure that is tightly defined a priori, it may be more illuminating to examine interactions between highand low-level design decisions, by analogy with the engineering principle of ”Total Quality Management.” The sources of decay are more various and more intransigent than is commonly acknowledged in these models.
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