中国制造业大而不强的主要瓶颈之一是产品质量不高。而制约产品质量提高的重要因素是产品的可靠性。本文通过对产品可靠性形成机理的分析，提出应在产品设计阶段引入可靠性设计；为应对激烈的市场竞争，为提高可靠性设计的效率，提出了基于信息化的协同可靠性设计理论框架。

The main obstacle restricting manufacturing industry in China from being stronger is such not good enough products’ quality. One of the main issues that cause the low product quality is its relatively low reliability. Thus, based on the analysis on the mechanism of product reliability, we claim that reliability design should be incorporated at the very beginning of product design. In order to improve the efficiency of product design and to release the new products to the market more quickly, we propose a framework of coordinated reliability design supported by the information technology to gain the competitive advantages.