Thus when the decision was made to build the Agni weapon system, some quick optimisation and ruggedisation was done to the basic '1980 vintage' design, including a solid fuelled second stage.

During the war, he worked on fuse ruggedization, ship demagnitization.

Winterization of equipment can be thought of as the winter-weather extension of ruggedization.

That's why some companies have begun incorporating some of their ruggedization technologies into a new breed of machine called semirugged laptops.

The DRDO developed the signal processing and software for tracking high speed ballistic missile targets as well as introduced more ruggedization.

The PICOe computer card slot uses a unique connector footprint with stepped connector depths to promote physical stability in the slot for ruggedization purposes.

The stronglinks include the ruggedization of some components and inclusion of insensitive munitions so that they will not be circumvented by fire, vibration, or magnetic fields, leaving the PAL vulnerable to bypass after such damage.

"Ruggedization is not just the domain of the blue-collar guys - everybody's notebooks are breaking all the time," said John Harris, vice president of marketing for the Panasonic Personal Computer Company, playing on a widely held fear, if not a fully demonstrable fact.