International Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS): An international reliability and maintainability conference event

Track 1 Session 12
4:45 to 5:55 p.m. Thursday September 14, 2006

Practical Accelerated Life Testing Techniques for Product Development

Current new product development procedures require a Reliability Test as mandatory to evaluate new products prior to their releases. There are no simple engineering equations that describe the failure of a Transport Refrigeration System. The proper determination of the reliability plan is crucial because an erroneous test plan can be costly and misleading. The main failure modes may be established and the life test developed based upon the failure modes. The purpose of an accelerated life test is to demonstrate a minimum life in a simulated environment. The ALT results in the real world depend upon the applied stresses and should be well behaved when the test conditions are not excessive or unusual. Simple reliability models may be employed to extrapolate to other customer conditions.

 
Julio Pulido
Ingersoll-Rand, USA

 
Dr. Julio Pulido is the Director of Global Reliability and Test Engineering for Ingersoll-Rand Climate Control. Dr. Pulido is a member of the American Society of Quality, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Refrigeration Institute and American Society of Civil Engineers serving in several technical committees. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Miami University School of Engineering and Applied Science Advisory Council. Dr Pulido had been speaker in several Engineering Symposiums in the areas of Product Reliability, Structural Testing, Numerical Analysis applications in Engineering, Risk Analysis and Component life prediction.