Technical Papers

Keywords: reliability, quality, OLV, PreOLV, test, launching, vehicle, car

As the biggest Renault engineering centre outside France, RTR contributes actively in the quality and reliability continuous improvement of Renault Group’s vehicles. The present document shows one of the most recent actions implemented by RTR and applied in several commercial launching operations. Representative sets of vehicles are chosen on a statistical basis and are tested following confirmed running procedures. The operation is implemented just after the production approval milestone, so the test concerns serial vehicles with the final definition for clients (no prototypes or pre-serial vehicles). During the tests, all the information resulted is analyzed and the client effects solved, in order to anticipate the manifestation of problems during the launching operation and confirm the reliability level of the new vehicle.