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Practical Reliability Engineering for Industry by Dr. Alec Feinberg

Join us for a webinar beginning on October 13, 2016 at 8:30 am PDT

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This is an intense, practical course for industry focusing on applying reliability in real world situations. It uses a stage gate approach to reliability as product transition from the Idea Phase, Evaluate, Develop, Transition and lastly to the Production Stage. This is a two-day webinar, which costs $850, (broken down into 4 half days) and includes course material and reliability software (30-day trial) to accelerate learning. The material provides depth and exposure to the industry's reliability science.

We start with basic methods in reliability & quality, providing full explanation of how to grow reliability in a commercial environment and translate that into ROI dollars. Reliability growth starts in the Design Idea phase using tools like FMEA, reliability predictions, and reverse engineering. Here we provide a formal method for providing a detailed reliability plan for the product. We describe how to develop the plan with management and engineers so that everyone is involved and sample sizes and cost are obtained up front. We move into Evaluation stage gate demonstrating and analyzing reliability in the testing phase with prototypes. We describe how to organize an effective DART (Design Assessment Reliability Testing) plan that includes HALT. We detail the method of test design by failure modes. As the product matures and the design becomes frozen, we move into the Development stage gate where we often do Design Maturity Testing demonstrating reliability with qualification testing. We go over the common specification and describe how to design test with and without specifications. Reliability statistical analysis is key and is accessible to the student through our professional DfRSoft software tool. Each student has the software to follow along during the course to help problem solving quickly. This jump starts ones capability. We then move into the Transition stage gate. Here we are concerned with production screening such as HASS.
 Finally we move into production monitoring where we monitor reliability with a sampling strategy.

 

Test methods such as temperature, temperature cycle, humidity, shock and vibration and how to analyze your test using this software, for both physics and statistics problems are demonstrated for all accelerated testing, with clear exercises. The concept of test design by failure modes is presented. Examples are given. All the key accelerated test models (Arrhenius, Humidity, Thermal Cycle, Electromigration) are provided and illustrated.  Both simple and advanced reliability math is overviewed and taught efficiently with software examples. The concept of design maturity testing using accelerated test methods and Chi-squared test planning and analysis, again with software exercises, are used to assess products failure rate/MTTF. We include Quality tools such as Cpk, lot sampling, sparing, availability and normality analysis. We also describe methods to analyze field return data to derive an MTBF.  As part of reliability analysis, we present special topics tailored to the classes needs.  This includes Physics of Failure, what equipment to use and when (SEM, Auger, X-RAY, XRF, Focused Ion Beam) etc. Numerous failure analysis pictures are shown to see first-hand the challenging failure modes and how their mechanisms are identified using such equipment. Other topics include a strong overview in understanding in Shock and Vibration, Advanced ESD methods, RoHS challenges, and parametric reliability analysis.  

 

PART 1:  BASIC METHODS IN RELIABILITY & QUALITY

 

1.  Reliability & Quality in Today’s Marketplace

  A Practical Approach to Reliability Implementation

  Reliability Growth and ROI

   Reliability as a Differentiator

  The Main Components of a DfRQ Company Program

 

2.  The Stage Gate Approach

  Idea, Evaluate, Development, Transition, Production

  Understanding Each Gate - The Tools for your Program

  Piecing it Together - A Value Added Reliability Program

 

3.  Basic Reliability Mathematics  (Using DfRSoft Tools)

  MTBF/Failure Rate Basics

  Failure Rate Conversion (FITs, FMH, MTBF, PPM, AFR, %Failure)

  System Reliability Analysis & Block Diagrams (Series, Parallel, Redundancy for K of N, Active/Standbys)

  Reliability Predictions (Parts Count, Detailed Stress, Telcordia, Mil Std 217…)

 

4. Basic Quality Test Engineering (Using DfRSoft Tools)

  Cpk, Yield, Normal/Lognormal, & Six Sigma Analysis

  SPC Charts

  Visual Inspection/Design Release

 

PART 2:  DEMONSTRATING & ANALYZING RELIABILITY

IDEA – STAGE GATE

 

5.  Top Down FMEA for Reliability Program Planning

    What is a Top Down FMEA

    Top Down FMEA for Program Planning

     Team Approach

    Design Controls & Recommended Actions

    How to Make a Program Plan with Top Down Example

    Value of Derating (Derating Specs - DfRSoft Guideline)

 

5a Bottoms Up Design FMEA

Key to a Good DFMEA

    Most Efficient DFMEA

 

EVALUATION – STAGE GATE

 

6 .  Design Assessment Reliability Testing & Reliability Growth (DART - HALT) (DfRSoft Tools)

    Finding Failure Modes – Test to Fail Not to Pass

    Accelerated Reliability Growth

    Test Design by Failure Modes

    HALT

   Design Margin – Load-Stress Reliability Interference Assessment

     Electrical Derating DEVELOP -  STAGE GATE

 

7.  Advanced Reliability Mathematics (Using DfRSoft Tools)

    Time Dependent Failure Rate

    Main Distribution of the Bathtub Curve, Weibull, Exponential, and Lognormal

    Introduction to Reliability Plotting Using Software

   

8.  Accelerated Life Models & Environmental Profiling

  Acceleration Factors & Models (Temperature-Arrhenius, Coffin-Manson Temperature Cycle, Vibration Accelerated Models)

  Chi-squared confidence method for accelerated testing

   Environmental Profiling (model for environments with varying stress profiles)

 

9.  Design Maturity Chi-Squared Demonstration Testing  (Using DfRSoft Tools)

  Testing for a Reliability Failure Rate Objective?

  Accelerated Test Plan Examples

  Statistical Confidence Test Plans

 

RELIABILITY MONITORING & SCREENING STAGE GATES

 

10.  Reliability Monitoring and Screening

   Screening vs. Monitoring

    Common Screens and Monitoring Tests

   HASS Screening

 

11.  Field Returns and Device Hours (DfRSoft Tools)

    Device Hours – Multiple Test Uses and Field Returns

   AFR – Most common company metric

    Field Return– Raw Data Analysis

 

12.  Availability & Sparing (DfRSoft Tools)

 

PART 3:   SPECIAL TOPICS TAYLORED TO THE CLASS’ NEEDS

 

13.  Advanced CDM ESD Concepts

  Introduction CDM compared to HBM

  Why Ionizers can be important

  ESD versus EOS damage

  CDM Case Studies

   Advanced Audits/Investigation, Test Fixtures

 

14. Shock & Vibration (Numerous Exercises)

Understanding Gs & gs

Vibration testing for Shipping

 

15.  Physics of Failure 7 Step Problem Solving 

 

16.  Physics of Failure Analysis Tools Detail Analysis Pictures Showing Strengths of Instruments

SEM (FE-SEM, EDS)

Digital Microscopy

Real Time Radiology, X-Ray Maps

Thermal Imaging

FTIR

 

17.  Physics of Failure (Numerous FA Pictures, Industry Lessons Learned and Design Rules to Avoid Issues)

  Four main types of aging

  Diffusion - Substitutional, Kirkendall

  Intermetallics - Au Embrittlement, Purple Plague

  Bond wire failures - non stick, intermetallic

  Dendritic Growth, Ag Migration & Electromigration

  CTE’s Mismatch, Thermal Fatigue

  Engelmaier IPC Solder Joint Life Model, BGAs

  Electronic Failure modes from shock, vibration

  Creep, Solder Creep, Creep Resistance in Plastics

  Organic contamination

  Popcorn Cracking, Voiding Delamination

  Assembly Errors

  Solder Failures (non wetting, grain size, leaching, coverage)

  Contamination – Solder non-wetting, Epoxy non-stick

  Plating Contamination

  RoHS Lead Free Solder Issues

  Cu Dissolution

  PCB Finishes

  ESD & EOS - Dielectric Breakdown

  Current Density & Fusing of Bond wires and wires

  Junction Temperature Issues & Modeling

 

18. Putting it all Together

 

19. Homework (optional) includes the Solution Set

 

Dr. Alec Feinberg is the founder of DfRSoft. He has a Ph.D. in Physics and is the principal author of the book, Design for Reliability written at M/A-COM. Written in an industrial environment, it is a very practical book and has a very extensive approach to the DfR process using a stage gate process since products are developed in phases. Alec is also the principal developer for DfRSoftware which is the most thorough reliability tool currently available and is also used to accelerate learning in his classes. Alec’s industrial experience has allowed him to provide extensive reliability engineering services in all areas and on numerous products in diverse industries (AT&T Bell Labs, TASC, M/A-COM, Tyco Electronics, and Advanced Energy) for over 35 years 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 & Quality, Shock and Vibration, HALT, Reliability Growth, Electrostatic Discharge, Dielectric Breakdown, DFMEA and Thermodynamic Reliability Engineering.  Some of the well-known companies that have taken his courses include Hewlett-Packard, Sandia National Labs, Canadian Space Agency, Sierra Wireless, Mentor Graphics, Woodward Industrial Controls, Tyco Electronics, and Northrop Grumman.  Alec has presented numerous technical papers and won the 2003 RAMS Alan O. Plait best tutorial award for the topic, “Thermodynamic Reliability Engineering.” Alec has a new book, Thermodynamic Degradation Science: Physics of Failure, Accelerated Testing, Fatigue, and Reliability Applications (due out October 2016, with the publisher John Wiley & Sons). Alec's main hobby is jazz harmonica.

 

DATES:  October 13, 14, 19 & 20, 2016

TIME:  8:30 am to noon PDT

COST:  $850  per person for 4 days – +5 attendees at $765 each

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