Abstract

Kirk and Fred discussing the continued need to change much of the activities in reliability engineering in the goal of ensuring and improving the reliability of electronics and electro-mechanical systems.

Key Points

Join Kirk and Fred as they continue to discuss some of the issues in reliability engineering methods that need to change for faster and more effective reliability development.

Topics include:

• Root cause investigation of test and field failures is critical to improvement and change in reliability engineering.
• Stress many times will show marginal or intermittent failure mechanisms.
• Those companies that keep a good root cause analysis are most likely to realize that stress can stimulate the same latent defects to be detectable in HASS and will have a better educate others on why “test to limits” (HALT) methods makes sense.

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SOR 291 Let’s Change the Reliability Engineering PracticeKirk Gray

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Here is the link to the  US Army and CALCE document (in the public domain)  “Reliability Prediction- Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”. Please distribute freely.

Here is a link to Kirk’s popular Accendo article “Why the Drain in the Bathtub Curve Matters” .

For more information about Kirk's Consulting services, please see his Accelerated Reliability Solutions website please click here

To see or purchase Kirk's new book co-authored with John Paschkewitz, Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems please click on this link.

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