reliability notes

 

Reliability Engineering

2: principles and techniques

Realistically, most likely failures, actions to those failures.
 

1, failures from the customer, FA, actions reliability analyses.

2. understadings of inherent reliability of a product or process and pinpoint potential areas for reliability improvement.

3. effects of design changes and corrections.



team, including reliability engineers, quality engineers, test engineers, systems engineers or design engineers.
 



What is Reliability? Why

4 things:  probability, intended function, a specified period of time, under stated conditions.

What is Reliability? reliability can be defined as the probability that an item will continue to perform its intended function without failure for a specified period of time under stated conditions.

Why is Reliability Important? What is the Difference Between Quality and Reliability?

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Why is Reliability Important?

Reputation. A company's reputation is very closely related to the reliability of its products. The more reliable a product is, the more likely the company is to have a favorable reputation.

Chain of reputation: reliability is not a probability, one failure in critical moment is not a probability

human psychological effect, 99 good things may have same impact as one bad thing


Competitive



What is the Difference Between Quality and Reliability?

quality time 0 good, sorting, good dies, pass functional tests

reliability, devices, HCI, mosfet, ILD, leakage time dependant


design, process, poorly manufactured. , even though the product design, manufacturing process.

 

 

Design of Experiments (DOE) and the Taguchi Approach

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- Optimize product and process designs, study the effects of multiple factors (i.e.- variables, parameters, ingredients, etc.) on the performance, and solve production problems by objectively laying out the investigative experiments. (Overall application goals)

- Study Influence of individual factors on the performance and determine which factor has more influence, which ones have less. You can also find out which factor should have tighter tolerance and which tolerance should be relaxed.

DOE using Taguchi approach attempts to improve quality which is defined as the consistency of performance. This can be done by moving the mean performance to the target as well as by reducing variations around the target. The prime motivation behind the Taguchi experiment design technique is to achieve reduced variation (also known as ROBUST DESIGN).

Further, the experimental data will allow you determine:

- How you can determine which factor is causing most variations in the result

- How you can set up your process such that it is insensitive to the uncontrollable factors

- Which factors have more influence on the mean performance

- What you need to do to reduce performance variation around the target

- How you can adjust factors for a system whose response varies proportional to signal factor (Dynamic response)

 

Introduced by R. A. Fisher in England in the 1920's

The Taguchi Approach , Dr. Genechi Taguchi DOE techniques in the late 1940's

 

reliability, quality, fit, ppm, burn-in

 

 

 

MTTF, Accelaration factor, and FIT

 

 

 

 

HTOL, chip reliability test, longer than BI,

 

NBTI

Breakdown field ~ 8 MV/cm for thick oxides and increases > 10 MV/cm for thinner oxides.

 

FA FIB, voltage contrast

 

 

 

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What is EM and it effects?