Design for Reliability (Electronics Handbook Series) (Hardcover)

by Dana Crowe (Editor), Alec Feinberg (Editor) "Today's marketplace demands reliability..." (more)
Key Phrases: design maturity testing, reliability predictive modeling, reliability growth program, Military Handbook, Principle of Operation, Design Assessment Reliability Testing (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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This book is definitely a strong addition to the body of knowledge for Reliability professionals and for any company that wants to improve the business competitiveness by improving product reliability…I have been fortunate to know [the DfR activity at M/A-COM/Tyco] and I also know how impressed other organizations are when they get to see it. This is an outstanding industry leader that has documented the implemented practice in this book.
--James E. Gene Bridgers, RESULTS MA

This book is definitely a strong addition to the body of knowledge for Reliability professionals and for any company that wants to improve the business competitiveness by improving product reliability…I have been fortunate to know [the DfR activity at M/A-COM/Tyco] and I also know how impressed other organizations are when they get to see it. This is an outstanding industry leader that has documented the implemented practice in this book.
--James E. Gene Bridgers, RESULTS MA

…a practical and useful book…description of the 'stage gate approach'…emphasis on accelerated test methods…description of physics of failure and failure investigation techniques…
Patrick O'Connor, author of Practical Reliability Engineering in Quality & Reliability Engineering, 2001

…a practical and useful book…description of the stage gate approach…emphasis on accelerated test methods…description of physics of failure and failure investigation techniques…
Patrick OConnor, author of Practical Reliability Engineering in Quality & Reliability Engineering, 2001

Product Description
Today's marketplace demands product reliability. At the same time, it places ever-increasing demands on products that push the limits of their performance and their functional life, and it does so with the expectation of lower per-unit product costs. To meet these demands, product design now requires a focused, streamlined, concurrent engineering process that will produce a product at the lowest possible cost in the least amount of time.Design for Reliability provides a systematic approach to the design process that is sharply focused on reliability and firmly based on the physics of failure. It imparts an understanding of how, why, and when to use the wide variety of reliability engineering tools available and offers fundamental insight into the total design cycle. Applicable from the idea phase of the product development cycle through product obsolescence, Design for Reliability (DfR) concepts integrated with reliability verification and analytical physics form a coherent stage gate/phase design process that helps ensure that a product will meet customers' reliability objectives.Whether you are a high-volume manufacturer of consumer items or a low volume producer of military commodities, your goal is the same: to bring a product to market using a process focused on designing out or mitigating potential failure modes prior to production release. Readers of Design for Reliability will learn to meet that goal and move beyond solidifying a basic offering to the marketplace to creating a true competitive advantage.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: CRC; 1 edition (April 30, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084931111X
• ISBN-13: 978-0849311116
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #910,524 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very practical for commercial products, July 11, 2001

By	Gene Bridgers (Wakefield, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This book is definitely a strong addition to the body of knowledge for Reliability Professionals and for any Company that wants to improve the business competitiveness by improving the product reliability.

The book clearly provides the correct focus on the customer, but it also elaborates on the fact that one customer is the corporate business enterprise.

The book shows the optimum sequence of DfR activities in the development phases. This book also has impressive details for the specific DfR elements. It is also an excellent resource for guidance into specific details.

I like the balance of graphics with text and the graphics added excellent additional understanding.

This is an outstanding Industry leader that has documented the implemented practice in this book.

I did not attempt to verify every mathematical formula.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Technical Content From Author, May 11, 2001

By	Alec Feinberg (USA) - See all my reviews

As one of the authors/editors of this book, let me describe the valuable technical content. First, let me impress upon you that this is a rare practical work in reliability written by members of a highly technical company that apply reliability science every day to products. Thus, academics are stressed only as a tool. Therefore, this book has something for everyone. It starts off with a management perspective on how to organize a reliability program. Chapter 1 - 5 overview a unique stage-gate approach to growing reliability. What tools and building blocks are needed from a management perspective to be world-class. What tests to perform when is also key. This approach assures optimum reliability grow in a commercial atmosphere of on-time reliable product deliveries. The book then evolves technically providing essential engineering topics. Chapter 6 describes key information for performing process reliability studies. Chapter 7, is without question a compact chapter on failure analysis that describes each analysis tool including SEM, SAM, EDS, FTIR, FIB, SIMS, etc. The numerous physics of failure analysis examples in diffusion, corrosion, intermetallics, ESD etc are illustrated with detailed FA images. Then Chapter 8 provides what you need to know for reliability statistics. It covers basic definitions for failure rate, CDF, PDF, the main distributions used (Weibull, lognormal, Exponential, Normal). A well-organized chapter presenting key essential reliability statistics needed in industry. Chapter 9 details accelerated testing, the primary historical equations governing temperature, temperature-humidity, vibration and temperature cycle/shock, and electromigration. It provides common sense guidelines for assessing overstressing. How to use these equations for test planning. Advance topics including Step-stress and how to describe life distributions as a function of stress. Chapter 10 on Accelerated Reliability Growth is fairly unique. What tests do you perform and when, using stage-gate and recent accelerated reliability growth mathematics for planning. Growth can be obtained and assessed in a timely manner. Chapter 11 provides the essential for system reliability. Series, parallel, and n of k subsystems as well as predicting reliability using both Bellcore, and 217 methods are addressed. Chapter 12 is an excellent overview of FMEA. Chapter 13 teaches methods for evaluating product risk and conducting risk program management. Lastly, Chapter 14 is an advanced topic, thermodynamic reliability engineering. No other book teaches thermodynamics and how the 1st and 2nd laws are fundamental to the science for Physics-of-Failure. In no other book can a reader find derivations for accelerated testing time compression expressions in fatigue, temperature-humidity, Miner's rule, and diffusion. Additionally, an advanced Arrhenius kinetic topics on logarithmic-in-time aging are provided. This topic as a seminar received the highest ratings at the 2001 RAMS conference. Thank You - Alec Feinberg.