Accelerated Reliability Engineering

Accelerated Reliability Engineering
Author: Gregg K. Hobbs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Accelerated Reliability Engineering Halt and Hass Gregg K. Hobbs Hobbs Engineering Corporation, Westminster, Colorado, USA Accelerated reliability engineering is becoming a popular industry alternative to on-going product quality testing. Highly Accelerated Life Tests (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screens (HASS) are intensive methods which use stresses higher than the field environments to expose and then improve design and process weaknesses. HALT and HASS offer faster, cheaper and more accurate results than traditional reliability testing techniques. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the methods and philosophy behind this successful approach. Production managers will appreciate the time-saving and cost-effective testing techniques described. Design engineers involved in quality assurance and students of reliability engineering will benefit from this unique resource detailing the technical aspects of accelerated reliability engineering. Features Include: * Coverage of the physics of failure and useful testing equipment enabling those new to the area to grasp the concepts behind HALT and HASS * Overview of the HALT technique demonstrating how to find design and process defects quickly using accelerated stress methodology during the design phase of the project * Examination of detection screens and modulated excitation used to detect flaws exposed in HALT * Description of how to set up a HASS profile and how to minimize costs whilst retaining efficiency * Applications of HALT and HASS and analysis of common mistakes highlighting the pitfalls to avoid when implementing the methods Wiley Series in Ouality and Reliability Engineering Visit Or Web Page! http://www.wiley.com/

Accelerated Quality and Reliability Solutions

Accelerated Quality and Reliability Solutions
Author: Lev M. Klyatis
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2010-07-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0080459595

Drawing of real-world issues and with supporting data from industry, this book overviews the technique and equipment available to engineers and scientists to identify the solutions of the physical essence of engineering problems in simulation, accelerated testing, prediction, quality improvement, and risk during the design, manufacturing, and maintenance stages. For this goal the book integrates Quality Improvement and Accelerated Reliability/ Durability/ Maintainability/Test Engineering concepts. Accelerated Quality and Reliability Solutions includes new and unpublished aspects in quality: - complex analysis of factors that influence product quality, and other quality development and improvement problems during design and manufacturing ; in simulation: - the strategy for development of accurate physical simulation of field input influences on the actual product – a system of control for physical simulation of the random input influences – a methodology for selecting a representative input region for accurate simulation of the field conditions; in testing: - useful accelerated reliability testing (UART) – accelerated multiple environmental testing technology – trends in development of UART technology; in studying climate and reliability; in prediction: - accurate prediction (AP) of reliability, durability, and maintainability - criteria of AP - development of techniques, etc.. The book includes new and effective aspects integration of quality, reliability, and maintainability. Other key features: - Includes aspects of quality integrated with reliability which can help to solve earlier inaccessible problems during design, manufacturing, and usage - Develops a new approach to improving the engineering culture for solving quality and reliability problems. - Enables the accurate prediction of quality, reliability, durability, and maintainability - Proposes strategies for accelerated quality, reliability, durability, and maintainability improvement and development - Combines new techniques with equipment for accurate physical simulation of field situation (mechanical, electrical, multi-environmental, and other influences, as well as human and other factors) for development accelerated testing (including reliability testing) and research - Overviews the latest techniques in physical simulation; accelerated testing; prediction of reliability, durability, and maintainability; quality development and improvement; safety aspects of risk assessment, especially for transportation - Supported by real life examples and industry data - Deals with the latest techniques in physical simulation, accelerated testing, prediction of reliability, durability, maintainability, quality development and safety aspects of risk assessment - Provides step-by-step guidance on the accurate prediction of quality factors, the physical simulation of field situations and of accelerated reliability testing - Dramatically reduces recalls by solving product improvement problems through the integration of quality development with reliability

Next Generation HALT and HASS

Next Generation HALT and HASS
Author: Kirk A. Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-03-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 111870021X

Next Generation HALT and HASS presents a major paradigm shift from reliability prediction-based methods to discovery of electronic systems reliability risks. This is achieved by integrating highly accelerated life test (HALT) and highly accelerated stress screen (HASS) into a physics-of-failure-based robust product and process development methodology. The new methodologies challenge misleading and sometimes costly mis-application of probabilistic failure prediction methods (FPM) and provide a new deterministic map for reliability development. The authors clearly explain the new approach with a logical progression of problem statement and solutions. The book helps engineers employ HALT and HASS by illustrating why the misleading assumptions used for FPM are invalid. Next, the application of HALT and HASS empirical discovery methods to quickly find unreliable elements in electronics systems gives readers practical insight to the techniques. The physics of HALT and HASS methodologies are highlighted, illustrating how they uncover and isolate software failures due to hardware-software interactions in digital systems. The use of empirical operational stress limits for the development of future tools and reliability discriminators is described. Key features: * Provides a clear basis for moving from statistical reliability prediction models to practical methods of insuring and improving reliability. * Challenges existing failure prediction methodologies by highlighting their limitations using real field data. * Explains a practical approach to why and how HALT and HASS are applied to electronics and electromechanical systems. * Presents opportunities to develop reliability test discriminators for prognostics using empirical stress limits. * Guides engineers and managers on the benefits of the deterministic and more efficient methods of HALT and HASS. * Integrates the empirical limit discovery methods of HALT and HASS into a physics of failure based robust product and process development process.

Probabilistic Physics of Failure Approach to Reliability

Probabilistic Physics of Failure Approach to Reliability
Author: Mohammad Modarres
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-06-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119388686

The book presents highly technical approaches to the probabilistic physics of failure analysis and applications to accelerated life and degradation testing to reliability prediction and assessment. Beside reviewing a select set of important failure mechanisms, the book covers basic and advanced methods of performing accelerated life test and accelerated degradation tests and analyzing the test data. The book includes a large number of very useful examples to help readers understand complicated methods described. Finally, MATLAB, R and OpenBUGS computer scripts are provided and discussed to support complex computational probabilistic analyses introduced.

Reliability Engineering Handbook

Reliability Engineering Handbook
Author: DodsoN/NolaN
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1999-10-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780824703646

Providing a comprehensive approach to both the art and science of reliability engineering, this volume covers all aspects of the field, from basic concepts to accelerated testing, including SPC, designed experiments, human factors, and reliability management. It also presents the theory of reliability systems and its application as prescribed by industrial and government standards.

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AND LIFE TESTING

RELIABILITY ENGINEERING AND LIFE TESTING
Author: V. N. A NAIKAN
Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008-12-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9788120335936

This compact and easy-to-understand text presents the underlying principles and practice of reliability engineering and life testing. It describes the various techniques available for reliability analysis and prediction and explains the statistical methods necessary for reliability modelling, analysis and estimation. The text also discusses in detail the concepts of life testing, its classification and methodologies as well as accelerated life tests, the methodologies and models of stress related failure rates evaluation, and data analysis. Besides, it elaborates on the principles, methods and equipment of highly accelerated life testing and highly accelerated stress screening. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion on the parametric as well as non-parametric methods generally used for reliability estimation, and the recent developments in life testing of engineering components. Key Features The book is up-to-date and very much relevant to the present industrial, research, design, and development scenarios. Provides adequate tools to predict the system reliability at the design stage, to plan and conduct life testing on the products at various stages of development, and to use the life test and field data to estimate the product reliability. Gives sufficiently large number of worked-out examples. Primarily intended as a textbook for the postgraduate students of engineering (M.Tech., Reliability Engineering), the book would also be quite useful for reliability practitioners, professional engineers, and researchers.

Reliability Engineering

Reliability Engineering
Author: Kailash C. Kapur
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2014-03-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118841794

An Integrated Approach to Product Development Reliability Engineering presents an integrated approach to the design, engineering, and management of reliability activities throughout the life cycle of a product, including concept, research and development, design, manufacturing, assembly, sales, and service. Containing illustrative guides that include worked problems, numerical examples, homework problems, a solutions manual, and class-tested materials, it demonstrates to product development and manufacturing professionals how to distribute key reliability practices throughout an organization. The authors explain how to integrate reliability methods and techniques in the Six Sigma process and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS). They also discuss relationships between warranty and reliability, as well as legal and liability issues. Other topics covered include: Reliability engineering in the 21st Century Probability life distributions for reliability analysis Process control and process capability Failure modes, mechanisms, and effects analysis Health monitoring and prognostics Reliability tests and reliability estimation Reliability Engineering provides a comprehensive list of references on the topics covered in each chapter. It is an invaluable resource for those interested in gaining fundamental knowledge of the practical aspects of reliability in design, manufacturing, and testing. In addition, it is useful for implementation and management of reliability programs.

Life Cycle Reliability Engineering

Life Cycle Reliability Engineering
Author: Guang Yang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2007-02-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0471715298

As the Lead Reliability Engineer for Ford Motor Company, Guangbin Yang is involved with all aspects of the design and production of complex automotive systems. Focusing on real-world problems and solutions, Life Cycle Reliability Engineering covers the gamut of the techniques used for reliability assurance throughout a product's life cycle. Yang pulls real-world examples from his work and other industries to explain the methods of robust design (designing reliability into a product or system ahead of time), statistical and real product testing, software testing, and ultimately verification and warranting of the final product's reliability

Accelerated Testing and Validation

Accelerated Testing and Validation
Author: Alex Porter
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2004-07-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080488072

Accelerated Testing and Validation Methods is a cross-disciplinary guide that describes testing and validation tools and techniques throughout the product development process. Alex Porter not only focuses on what information is needed but also on what tools can produce the information in a timely manner. From the information provided, engineers and managers can determine what data is needed from a test and validation program and then how to select the best, most effective methods for obtaining the data.This book integrates testing and validation methods with a business perspective so readers can understand when, where, and how such methods can be economically justified. Testing and validation is about generating key information at the correct time so that sound business and engineering decisions can be made. Rather than simply describing various testing and validation techniques, the author offers readers guidance on how to select the best tools for a particular need, explains the appropriateness of different techniques to various situations and shows how to deploy them to ensure the desired information is accurately gathered. - Emphasizes developing a strategy for testing and validation - Teaches how to design a testing and validation program that deliver information in a timely and cost-effective manner

Practical Reliability Engineering

Practical Reliability Engineering
Author: Patrick O'Connor
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1997-02-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780471973454

This classic textbook/reference contains a complete integration of the processes which influence quality and reliability in product specification, design, test, manufacture and support. Provides a step-by-step explanation of proven techniques for the development and production of reliable engineering equipment as well as details of the highly regarded work of Taguchi and Shainin. New to this edition: over 75 pages of self-assessment questions plus a revised bibliography and references. The book fulfills the requirements of the qualifying examinations in reliability engineering of the Institute of Quality Assurance, UK and the American Society of Quality Control.