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The world's most famous Quality Guru, W. Edwards Deming often quoted;

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.”

Reliability Solutions dedicates itself to this philosophy and provides a wide range of solution based training plus applications based consultancy to help electronic manufacturers realise world class standards in the shortest possible time at the lowest cost.

Reliability Improvement is an extremely important part of any Corporate Quality Policy and requires dedication to continuous experimentation of new test methods that will detect a wider range of inherent or induced weaknesses, thereby leading to continual improvement.

Early Life Reliability and MTTF demonstration are all part of this continual improvement programme, but all investment in reliability improvement must be balanced by savings in other areas such as burn-in reduction / removal, improved component supplier performance, higher end of line yield, etc Customers will continue to be more demanding, and the only way to ensure continual OEM volume growth is to stay ahead of the competition by being totally innovative in the field of reliability improvement , while simultaneously achieving cost reduction.

The key is to strike the correct balance by systematic improvement and setting achievable objectives via detailed and planned improvement programmes

The Electronics Industry has grown so quickly over the last 10 yrs providing a challenge to the Reliability experts in defining the appropriate types of accelerated testing to induce inherent weaknesses in design and manufacture.

The ‘Bathtub Curve’ is still accepted within the industry as a means of separating Early Life Reliability from Long Life and Wear Out , though many devices and products never reach the wear out stage as product life cycle is less than the time to reach the wear out point.

Failures during the Early Life period are often related to manufacturing errors and can be prevented by Strong Design Quality Reliability Testing which yields failures that can be used to make Design Upgrades prior to Volume Production. Failures occurring during the longer term life of the component / product are called random failures as they randomly occur independent of operating time and are often measured by predicting MTTF level from Accelerated Life Testing. Unlike these constant rate failures, wearout failures are caused by mechanisms that degrade in performance gradually until the device does not function any more.

Today’s Challenge

Reliability Engineers face a constant challenge to perform Accelerated Stress / Life Testing in minimal time and minimum expense , yet are still expected to make a Confident Failure Rate Prediction from a low volume, short duration Stress Test. To achieve such an objective requires planning of an effective and often complex type of Reliability Stress testing that covers the Early Life and Longer Term Failure Rate region of the Bathtub Curve.

This involves very specific Early Life Reliability testing that is very different from the more traditional MTTF Test approach as stimulation of different defect types is fundamental to Reliability Improvement.

Once effective Reliability Test Stress Profiles are defined , engineers can calculate simulation periods and make Failure Rate Predictions with given Confidence Levels. Why spend money on expensive Reliability Prediction Tools ?

Reliability / Failure Rate Prediction Tools are only as good as the information input. These tools DO NOT provide solutions to the Accelerated Test design and also how to accurately calculate the Simulated Field Operational time from which Hazard Rate and Failure Rates can be predicted.

Reliability Solutions will provide the entire package from Designing the Most Effective Accelerated Test with Highest Defect Detection Capability to Predicting Field Failure Rates using proven techniques which correlate closely to Field Failure data.

Also the models used and assumptions behind them are provided Free of Charge to any company that works with Reliability Solutions providing the ‘Total-Solution’ to their needs

Reliability Solutions focuses on providing the complete range of reliability improvement tools and solutions that provide statistical predictions that will significantly reduce your product failure levels at the most expensive end of the cycle – the consumer.