Failure time based reliability growth in product development and manufacturing

Jin Tongdan, Liao Haitao, Luo Wen

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5 Scopus citations

Abstract

The Failure-In-Time (FIT) rate is widely used to quantify the reliability of a electronic component. It fails to indicate the portion of the failures due to either environmental or electrical stresses or issues that are related to process/handing, manufacturing and applications. To meet this end, FIT-based corrective action driven metrics are proposed to link the failure mode (FM) with components and non-component faults. First the conventional failure mode pareto is reviewed and its deficiency is discussed. Then a new index called the failure mode rate (FMR) is introduced to monitor the FM trend and evaluate the effectiveness of corrective actions (C/As). Based on the FMR, the FIT rate is extended to non-component failure mode and further to individual failure mode in predicting the reliability of electronic products. The extended FIT rate enables product designers to narrow down the root-cause of the failure, identify the C/A ownership, and estimate the MTBF improvement. The new metrics provide a guideline for prioritizing resources to attack the critical failures with the minimum cost.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2007 Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS
Pages488-493
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event2007 53rd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Sympsoium, RAMS - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Jan 22 2006Jan 25 2006

Publication series

Name2007 Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, RAMS
ISSN (Print)0149-144X

Other

Other2007 53rd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Sympsoium, RAMS
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period1/22/061/25/06

Keywords

  • Corrective action
  • Failure-in-time
  • Mean time between failures
  • Pareto chart

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering

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