"Mike’s depth of knowledge and attention to detail left us with a much deeper appreciation of reliability and design-for-manufacturing, and allowed us to immediately implement many of his concepts and ideas. His flexible attitude and approach to coaching allowed us to fit a detailed course into our busy schedules."
--- Jonathan Wells Ph.D., Director RF Development, Stratex Networks
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Education & Seminars
Reliability Tools & Integration for the Manufacturing Phase

OBJECTIVES
This course will look at reliability tools that are used in the manufacturing phase of a project. The tools used in manufacturing are a combination of analytical and test techniques to continually assess the reliability of the product. The focus here will be mostly at finding process issues.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is intended for manufacturing and test engineers and reliability engineers involved in the manufacturing of a product and the collection of field data.

OUTLINE

Elements of a Reliability Program

• Basic Definitions

• Reliability vs. Cost

• Product Life Cycle Matrix

• Integration Phases

• Integration in the Concept Phase

• Integration in the Design Phase

• Integration in the Prototype Phase

• Integration in the Manufacturing Phase

Integration in the Manufacturing Phase

• Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)

• Setting up a HASS based on HALT results

• Running Proof-of-Screen

• Using RDT and FMECA results to identify possible wearout mechanisms that need to be taken into account for HASS

• Using Reliability Prediction results to help determine how much screening is necessary

• On-Going Reliability Testing (ORT)

• What is an ORT

• How to set up an ORT

• Different variables

• Comparing ORT to HASS

• How to use the results of a prediction when Setting up an ORT

• Repair Depot Setup

• Key factors involved in setting up a repair depot

• Sending NTF hardware back through HASS

• Field Failure Tracking System

• Purpose of a field failure tracking system

• Linking field failure information with predictions

• Using failure analysis tools with field trends

• Reliability Performance Reporting

• How to set up

• What metrics to track

• Comparing results with Reliability Program and Integration Plan

• End-of-Life Assessment

• Gathering and plotting data

• Comparing with predicted results

• How to use the results of reliability predictions and FMECA’s to assist in EOL assessment

Summary

• Reliability vs. Cost

• Summary of Phases

• Summary Tools within this Phase

• Benefits of Integration

• Next Steps

• Implementation

• Further Education in Integration

• Related courses by Ops A La Carte

• Contact Information