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Management and team skill set and the resource requirements for a successful program.

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Reliability-Quality program and stress test requirements for each phase of the product development cycle.

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Defect Tracking and Supplier Management.

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Failure Analysis, Corrective Action and Feedback.

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Test Strategy and Software-Hardware integrated for failure detection under stress conditions.

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Return on Investment and Capital Justification.

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Assessment of Strength Degradation Rate and product Fatigue Life in the field.

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Reliability budget and MTBF, MTTF paper prediction correlation to stress test data, product field reliability and growth.

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Basics of Applied Science subjects and their application to Stress Testing.

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Importance of thermal and stress management.

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Choice of Stress types and Stress magnitudes based upon the design and product material limitations.

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Product characterization under Thermal, Vibration and Mechanical-Electrical stresses.

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Relationships of Failure Modes and Mechanisms under stress conditions.

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Meaning and application of DVT, DMT, ORT, HALT, HASS, STRIFE, ESS and AST.

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Exposure to under or excessive over stress tests; meaningless data or damaged product.

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Selection of proper Test Equipment and Tests.

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Acceleration Factor-Fatigue Life Correlation.

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Mil Standards, TelCordia BelCore, IEC and JEDEC qualification requirements.