Session: 13D, Thursday, 28 January 2010, 0800-1000 Moderator: Julio Pulido, Ph.D., SE, Ingersoll Rand
Today’s companies need to develop reliable products faster. The session will cover papers showing common product validation practices across several industries in order to achieve an expected field reliability level.
Papers: 13D1 [0114] COMPLIANCE TESTING IS NOT RELIABILITY TESTING by Vaishali Hegde, Philips Respironics
The healthcare industry is expanding rapidly. Manufacturers want to be first to market with innovative products. This has led to a common (mis)belief, in the medical device industry, that successfully completing FDA mandated compliance testing, which requires less time than reliability testing, ensures a reliable product. This paper outlines the differences between compliance and reliability testing, with real life examples from the medical industry and provides tips to reduce overall compliance
13D2 [0088] RELIABILITY TEST PROCEDURES FOR ACHIEVING HIGHLY ROBUST ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS by A. Tarkan Tekcan and Barbaros Kirisken, Vestel Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS In this paper, reliability improvement procedures for consumer electronic products in a large scale manufacturing plant are introduced. Reliability improvement process is composed by a series of reliability validation and approval tests, procedures and lastly, calculations and analysis. Also, all kind of reliability problems found by production quality, outgoing quality, third party customers and end users are well noted, and test procedures can be scrutinized.
13D3 [0069] HOW TO DESIGN A BETTER RELIABILITY TEST PROGRAM by Mike Silverman and Talmy Rauch, Ops A La Carte More and more industries are competing on reliability, and companies need to develop more reliable products faster. However, reliability test plans are often generic or blindly following industry standards. Test plans must be tailored to fit customer use profiles. Also, reliability testing often occurs too late in the process when development is nearly complete. This presentation will offer a solution to these two fundamental issues of Testing Too Little and Testing Too Late.
13D4 [0185] INCORPORATING FIELD RELIABILITY VARIATIONS IN PRODUCTION TEST OPTIMIZATION by Bahman Honari, University of Limerick, John Donovan, Ph.D., Institute of Technology Sligo, and Eamonn Murphy, Ph.D., University of Limerick This paper develops a reliability model that incorporates production test information with field reliability performance. This model then is integrated into a field reliability changes early detection system to allow one to regularly optimize the test duration and profile to minimize the total test-field costs directly.
13D5 [0059] THE EXTENDED CONTINUOUS EVALUATION RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL by Larry H. Crow, Ph.D., Crow Reliability Resources
Reliability growth testing generally takes place over several consecutive test phases. At the end of each test phase delayed correction actions are incorporated into the system in order to improve the reliability. Of considerable interest to management and reliability engineering are several estimates of the reliability at the end of a test phase. One estimate is an assessment of the reliability at the end of the test phase before the delayed corrective actions are incorporated.
Practical Reliability Test Planning Applications
Session: 13D, Thursday, 28 January 2010, 0800-1000
Moderator: Julio Pulido, Ph.D., SE, Ingersoll Rand
Today’s companies need to develop reliable products faster. The session will cover papers showing common product validation practices across several industries in order to achieve an expected field reliability level.
Papers:
13D1 [0114] COMPLIANCE TESTING IS NOT RELIABILITY TESTING
by Vaishali Hegde, Philips Respironics
The healthcare industry is expanding rapidly. Manufacturers want to be first to market with innovative products. This has led to a common (mis)belief, in the medical device industry, that successfully completing FDA mandated compliance testing, which requires less time than reliability testing, ensures a reliable product. This paper outlines the differences between compliance and reliability testing, with real life examples from the medical industry and provides tips to reduce overall compliance
13D2 [0088] RELIABILITY TEST PROCEDURES FOR ACHIEVING HIGHLY ROBUST ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS by A. Tarkan Tekcan and Barbaros Kirisken, Vestel Elektronik Sanayi ve Ticaret AS
In this paper, reliability improvement procedures for consumer electronic products in a large scale manufacturing plant are introduced. Reliability improvement process is composed by a series of reliability validation and approval tests, procedures and lastly, calculations and analysis. Also, all kind of reliability problems found by production quality, outgoing quality, third party customers and end users are well noted, and test procedures can be scrutinized.
13D3 [0069] HOW TO DESIGN A BETTER RELIABILITY TEST PROGRAM
by Mike Silverman and Talmy Rauch, Ops A La Carte
More and more industries are competing on reliability, and companies need to develop more reliable products faster. However, reliability test plans are often generic or blindly following industry standards. Test plans must be tailored to fit customer use profiles. Also, reliability testing often occurs too late in the process when development is nearly complete. This presentation will offer a solution to these two fundamental issues of Testing Too Little and Testing Too Late.
13D4 [0185] INCORPORATING FIELD RELIABILITY VARIATIONS IN PRODUCTION TEST OPTIMIZATION by Bahman Honari, University of Limerick, John Donovan, Ph.D., Institute of Technology Sligo, and Eamonn Murphy, Ph.D., University of Limerick
This paper develops a reliability model that incorporates production test information with field reliability performance. This model then is integrated into a field reliability changes early detection system to allow one to regularly optimize the test duration and profile to minimize the total test-field costs directly.
13D5 [0059] THE EXTENDED CONTINUOUS EVALUATION RELIABILITY GROWTH MODEL
by Larry H. Crow, Ph.D., Crow Reliability Resources
Reliability growth testing generally takes place over several consecutive test phases. At the end of each test phase delayed correction actions are incorporated into the system in order to improve the reliability. Of considerable interest to management and reliability engineering are several estimates of the reliability at the end of a test phase. One estimate is an assessment of the reliability at the end of the test phase before the delayed corrective actions are incorporated.