Products must come to market quickly, be more reliable and cost less. The problem is that statistical measures take time. There is a clear need for actionable information about the robustness or durability of a product early in the development process. In a Failure Mode Verification Test (FMVT), the analysis is not statistical but is designed to check two assumptions. First, that the design is capable of producing a viable product for the environments applied. Second, that a good design and fabrication of the product would last for a long period of time under all of the stresses that it is expected to see and would accumulate stress damage throughout the product in a uniform way. Testing a product in this way leads to three measures of the product's durability: (1) design maturity, the ratio between time to first failure and the average time between failures after the first failure; (2) technological limit, the time under test at which fixing additional failures would not provide a significant improvement in the life of the product; and (3) failure mode histogram, which indicates the repeatability of failures in a product. Using techniques like FMVT can provide a means of breaking the tyranny of statistics over durability and reliability testing in a competitive business climate.
Accelerated Reliability Qualification in Automotive Testing
Quality and Reliability Engineering International ; 20 , 2 ; 115-120
2004
6 Seiten, 2 Quellen
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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