Environmental and Reliabilty Testing

What you will learn:

This course covers the environmental and reliability tests performed during design and in manufacturing. You will learn about reliability prediction techniques and factors. You will learn what you can expect from reliability growth testing environmental stress screening (ESS). You will know how environmental stress screening (ESS) is used to flush out flaws introduced during processing, fabrication and assembly. When highly accelerated for longer duration, this is called Reliability Test. You will learn how Reliability Test can flush out design flaws resulting from incompatible interfaces, from erroneous functional performance in different environments and from weak components. By the completion of this course you will be able to formulate environmental and reliability test strategies for your own products.

Who should attend:

This course is for test and reliability engineers interested in uncovering both design and manufacturing flaws through environmental stresses.

Detail:

COURSE OUTLINE:

Principles of Environmental Testing

Controlling Infant Mortality Failures
Identifying Root Causes in Manufacturing

Principles of Reliability Testing

Testing for Durability
Identifying Design Flaws
Identifying Weak Components

Designing Tests

Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) inputs
Design FMEA inputs
Fault Tree Analysis Inputs

Reliability Growth Testing

Duane Model, AMSAA Model
Accelerated Stresses
ATAF vs. TAAF Strategy

Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) Techniques

Highly Accelerated Stress Screening
Highly Accelerated Stress Audit
Proof of Production Screen

Statistical Analysis

Probability Failure Distribution
Weibull Graphical Method
Weibayes Technique

Fundamentals in Life Testing

Accelerated Test Principles
Life Estimation
Design Life Failure Rates
Estimating Safety Margins
Predictions of Spares

Test Models

Arrhenius Model
Inverse Power Law
Limit Testing

Introduction

ESS Myths & Facts

ESS Techniques

Highly Accelerated Life Test
Highly Accelerated Stress Screen
Highly Accelerated Stress Audit
Proof of Production Screen

Latent Defects

High Rate Thermal Cycling
Broad Band Vibration Stresses

Design for Test Detection

Implementing ESS

ESS Workshop

Costing ESS

ESS Fixturing
Equipment Considerations

Selling Management on ESS

Technical Rewards
Quality & Reliability Rewards
Financial & Marketing Rewards

Reliability Demonstration

Fixed Length Testing
Fixed Failure Testing
Minimum Life Predictions

Technology Trends

Availability:
Format	Date	Length	Location	Price
ConsulTraining				RFQ
CourseNotes				RFQ
Onsite				RFQ
Private			Los Angeles	RFQ