ADVANCES IN PRODUCT QUALIFICATION AND SUPPLY CHAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Prof. Michael Pecht
25 th November 2016, h. 11.30 Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Today, products are changing very rapidly, customers have more choices, tremendous price pressure exists on suppliers, and there is pressure to test quickly. However, the traditional test and qualification standards are not working. Over the past 10 years, there have been an increasingly large number of products that have passed qualification tests but have failed in the field. The resulting costs of these failures have been in the hundreds of millions of dollars for many companies. This lecture will overview why the current methods are inadequate, why the standards need to be replaced and how companies can qualify products in an accelerated manner to ensure acceptable reliability. Virtual qualification, accelerated testing, target application requirements, failure mechanisms and models, and prognostics-based qualification will be discussed, with various examples. Responsibilities with the supply chain will also be presented
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