Accelerated Test, Design and Analysis to Demonstrate Reliability by Dr. Alec Feinberg
Join us for a webinar on Tuesday September 25, 2024 at 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Pacific (California time) Cost $400 per person, Group discounts available! Please note, this webinar will be recorded. If the time is not convenient for you, this webinar recording link can be purchased to view at your leisure. Contact us for details.
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This 4-hour course is designed to focus on all aspects of Accelerated Testing, its Design and Analysis. We will first overview accelerated test historical models–for Temperature, Temperature-Humidity-Bias, Temperature Cycle, Temp Cycle Frequency Effect, Engelmaier Solder Joint Model, Vibration, Electromigration (Black Model, Silver migration), Capacitor-Voltage, Dielectric Breakdown, and General Power Law models. We will review how to determine key parameters for these models. We will then discuss accelerated test planning. How do we know what test to do and at what stage to do them in a program plan? How to use a top-down FMEA as a program planning tool. We will introduce a stage gate approach. Test design by failure modes will be utilized in planning. We will also overview general qualification test planning including multi-accelerated test design to demonstrate one failure rate with confidence bonds and accelerated end-of-life reliability test planning. Included will be a “CALT” like method for environmental profiling so that one can profile a product’s environment more accurately as field stress conditions vary. This will help set realistic accelerated test goals and will make for more accurate MTBF predictions. In the analysis area we will look at statistical data methods, including Chi-squared accelerated multi-test planning, the new Chi-squared and other accelerated reliability growth methods, life-time accelerated testing using Weibull/Lognormal test analysis, and multi failure mode assessment. What to do when multiple independent tests are performed and we wish to include all data in our analysis. This is an intense course, be prepared for the full session.
Course Outline:
Accelerated Test, Design & Analysis
Key Published Standards on Qualification Testing
Typical Accelerated Test Plans for Semiconductors, Hybrids and Assemblies
o Using Test Standards
o Designing Your Own Test Plan
Test Design by Failure Modes Using Top Down FMEA
Zero Failure Test Design
o What is Confidence (Engineering vs. Statistical Confidence)
o Chi-Squared Confidence Testing
o Single Environment Test Design & Analysis (MTBF)
o Multiple Environment Test Design & Analysis (Combined MTBF Assessment)
Confidence Testing for an MTBF value with multiple test environments
o Importance of Device Hours
Accelerated Lifetime Test Using Weibull & Lognormal Analysis
o Main Distributions of the Bathtub Curve, Weibull,
o Exponential, Weibull and Lognormal
o Weibull Beta
o Reliability Plotting (life data analysis, censored data)
Reliability Growth Testing
o Chi-Squared Accelerated Reliability Growth
o DART Testing (Including HALT)
Publishing Your Accelerated Test Results for Your Company
Accelerated Testing Models & Methods
Temperature Arrhenius Model
o Historical Activation Energies
o Testing to Find an Activation Energy for a Failure Mode
Temperature-Humidity-Bias Model
o What to do if test biased causes the local relative humidity to change significantly due to device heating
o Estimating the Local Relative Humidity Assessment in power devices
Temperature Cycle Models
o Coffin-Manson
o Modified Coffin-Manson (Norris-Lanzberg)
o Engelmaier Model
Accelerated Vibrations Test Models
o Sine vs. Random Accelerated Testing
Voltage Acceleration (Capacitors) Model
o Dielectric Breakdown
Silver Migrations Testing
Mechanical Accelerated Test Power Law Model
o Power Exponent Testing
Electromigration Black Model
Environmental Profiling Your Product’s Multiple Stress Use Conditions for Test Planning
About Your Instructor:
Dr. Feinberg has a Ph.D. in Physics and is the author of the books, Design for Reliability and Thermodynamic Degradation Science – Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue and Reliability Applications. Alec has provided reliability engineering services in all areas of reliability and on numerous products in diverse industries that include solar, thin film power electronics, defense, microelectronics, aerospace, wireless electronics, and automotive electrical systems. He has provided training classes in Design for Reliability, Shock and Vibration, HALT, Reliability Growth, Electrostatic Discharge, DFMEA, and Physics of Failure. Alec has presented numerous technical papers and won the 2003 RAMS Alan O. Plait best tutorial award for the topic, Thermodynamic Reliability Engineering.
Cost $400 per person, if you have five or more the cost is $360 per person
Time 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Pacific (California)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. NOTE: if you do not receive the confirmation email, please call us at 303-655-3051
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