Accelerated Stress Testing Handbook: Guide for Achieving Quality Products
by: H. Anthony Chan (Editor)
Topics include: product strength distribution, cumulative stress failure, generic subprocesses, repetitive shock machines, incremental damage superposition approach, intra experiment, robust temperature, linear damage superposition, accelerated stress testing, vibration stressing, threshold stress failure, repetitive shock vibration, destruct limits, power line variation, specific product samples, corrective action suggestions, liquid thermal shock, quality audit results, safety qualification, stress portfolio, destruct levels, specified design limits, baselining procedures, geometric series ratio, vibration screening, Task Description, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Manufacturing Qualification, Stress Testing Program Subprocesses, Plan Program, Manufacturing Technology, Principles of Stress Testing, Annual Technical Meeting, Accelerated Qualification of Electronic Assemblies, Vendor Electronics, Generic Processes, San Diego, John Wiley, Computers Using the Taguchi Method, Vibration Measurements, High Density Surface Mount Circuit Card, Highly Accelerated Life Test, Power Supply Example, Robert Camp, Los Angeles, The Board Electronic, Thermal Considerations, Characteristics of Shock, Reliability Enhancement Testing, Otis Elevator Company
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Book Description
Electrical Engineering Accelerated Stress Testing Handbook Guide for Achieving Quality Products As we move closer to a genuinely global economy, the pressure to develop highly reliable products on ever-tighter schedules will increase. Part of a designer's "toolbox" for achieving product reliability in a compressed time frame should be a set of best practices for utilizing accelerated stress testing (AST). The Accelerated Stress Testing Handbook delineates a core set of AST practices as part of an overall methodology for enhancing hardware product reliability. The techniques presented will teach readers to identify design deficiencies and problems with component quality or manufacturing processes early in the product's life, and then to take corrective action as quickly as possible. A wide array of case studies gleaned from leading practitioners of AST supplement the theory and methodology, which will provide the reader with a more concrete idea of how AST truly enhances quality in a reduced time frame. Important topics covered include:
* Theoretical basis for AST
* General AST best practices
* AST design and manufacturing processes
* AST equipment and techniques
* AST process safety qualification
In this handbook, AST cases studies demonstrate thermal, vibration, electrical, and liquid stress application; failure mode analysis; and corrective action techniques. Individuals who would be interested in this book include: reliability engineers and researchers, mechanical and electrical engineers, those involved with all facets of electronics and telecommunications product design and manufacturing, and people responsible for implementing quality and process improvement programs.
About the Authors
About the Editors H. Anthony Chan has been with AT&T Labs and the former AT&T Bell Labs for 14 years, specializing in product development and manufacturing, including interconnection technology, manufacture assembly and reliability, network management, and wireless network. He has been responsible for R&D in robust product design and manufacture and for guiding various manufacturing locations in planning and conducting reliability and stress testing programs. Dr. Chan has taught several training courses in reliability and stress testing and is a regular speaker on these topics. Moreover, he is an adjunct faculty member at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Paul J. Englert is a distinguished member of the technical staff in the Product Realization Department of Lucent Technologies? Wireless Networks Group. He is responsible for wide-scale deployment of mechanical computer-aided design (CAD) and work-in-progress data management solutions. Also, Dr. Englert develops Web-based, multimedia training tools for engineering practices and CAD tools and has lectured in China, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan on these subjects. Also, his experience spans a broad spectrum of projects in assembly, manufacturing, stress testing, chemical solvent replacement process development, and statistical modeling.
Objective and Useful -- After reading and being dissappointed by the other two books on accelerated stress testing (Hobbs and McLean), it was very refreshing to read this one. It is objective and very helpful. It gives a great introduction to the principles of AST. It goes on to give very specific recommendations about the steps in process and key details about different factors involved in performing the testing and subsequent analysis.
Unlike the others, the reader doesn't feel like he is watching an infomercial, full of lofty claims with few hard facts to back them up. This book delivers on the details and leaves the conclusions to the reader.
It is a bit dry and long, more like a textbook than the others, but in a positive way. If you are an engineer trying to sell management on the technology, give them Hobb's book. If you want to learn about AST, buy this one.
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