Track 2 Session 2
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday June 9, 2009

Improving Organization Competitiveness: How Quantitative Accelerated Life Testing Can Present a Value Proposition

Accelerated life testing is often conducted within industry, but with varying degrees of success. Due to the fact that product reliability impacts an organization’s bottom line, it is important to accept that we have a responsibility to our organizations to deliver accurate results on which management decisions can be based. In order for the output of any accelerated life test to be meaningful it has to be understood that this is not a stand-alone test, but rather a key component within a more complex test protocol. This session will present a refinement to the more traditional approaches. It utilizes a physics of failure based approach, which improves result accuracy. Further, the presentation will show how the outputs of an accelerated life test can be used to significantly reduce the duration of reliability demonstration tests conducted on future products without any reduction in confidence level, thus reducing time to market and increasing the organization’s competitiveness.