The aim of the project is to undertake a study of the feasibility of establishing methods and indicators to measure the costs and benefits of diversity policies in companies in a European context to enable the effectiveness of such policies and practices to be properly assessed and disseminated....

Reliability and risk assessment play an important role in product design, development and production. In mass production items, data is abundant and testing in product development and certification is usually thorough. In contrast, for nonparametric applications, product cost is high, there is...