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Reliability
& Quality Program (Day 1)
Management Overview
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Program
requirements and justification. |
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ROI and DOE. |
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Test Samples
and Statistics Confidence Levels. |
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Defining
program requirements, resources and skill sets; Who, What, Where, and How? |
Reliability
Program
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Reliability
and Quality definitions. |
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Product Life
Cycle Phases. |
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Reliability
test requirements at proto-build; EVT, DVT, DMT and FMT. |
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Reliability
test requirements at pre-production build; RDT, STRIFE™,
HALT™. |
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Reliability
test requirements at FRS build; ESS, Stress Screening, HASS™,
RDT™ |
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Reliability
test requirements at volume production; ORT, HASS™TM,
AST (wear-out). |
Field
Distribution & Degradation Rate
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Population
Stress and Strength Distribution. |
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Accelerated
product strength degradation rate versus normal life degradation rate. |
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Affects of
Product Design Robustness and Margins on field reliability. |
Understanding
Failure Modes and Mechanisms
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Relationship
of failure modes-mechanisms & stress. |
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Time dependent
cyclic and non-cyclic failures. |
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Time and
stress dependent failures. |
Accelerated
Reliability Test Methods
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Mechanical SN
curves, Bathtub Curves, Arrehenius Eq. and Fatigue Life Estimates. |
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Mathematical
modeling and interpretation for various stress types and combinations. |

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