Track 1 Session 7
1:10 to 2:20 p.m. Thursday April 12, 2007

Design for Reliability: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

In today's highly competitive world market, it is crucial to deliver highly reliable products fast and at low cost. The old, traditional reliability practices, such as reliability prediction, burn-in/ESS or reliability demonstration, are not effective or cost efficient for today's products and market. Reliability must be designed in and built into a product from the very beginning of the product development cycle. This session will present a suite of Design-for-Reliability (DFR) best practices to deliver reliable products faster and cheaper. These best practices include robust design and fault prevention techniques (probabilistic margin design, stress analysis, and derating design), fault discovery and removal techniques (FMEA/FTA, HALT/HASS, and SCA analysis) and fault tolerance design techniques. These techniques will be embedded into a product development process. The lessons learned in the author's engineering practice will also be presented.

Key Words: Design for Reliability, Robust Design, Reliability Program Planning, Lessons Learned