Past Webinars - English

Combining Physical Models with Reliability Mo...

This webinar will demonstrate how physical models, usually used to understand how things behave, how...

June 11, 2015

Empirical limit testing and the benefits of d...

Reliability engineering of electronics systems has been historically focused on quantifying life ent...

May 14, 2015

Effective Reliability Test Plan Development

Reliability test plans are critical to the success of a new product or technology. Tests must be str...

April 9, 2015

Finding Causes that Checklists Don't Find

The typical approach to identifying potential problems or issues in a planned activity is a checklis...

March 12, 2015

Chi-Squared Accelerated Reliability Growth (C...

This webinar is co-hosted with the Statistics Division. The chi-squared distribution has been u...

February 12, 2015

Conducting Effective Supplier Assessments

Supplier management is often an under-resourced and/or ineffective element in quality management sys...

January 19, 2015

Counterfeit Electronics

Counterfeit electronics components continue to make news. In recent years, the prevalence of these f...

January 8, 2015

Cultural diversity and how to improve communi...

The world is getting smaller. No matter how big or small your organization is, it is no longer an is...

December 11, 2014

Reliability Data Analysis Using SAS

Standard reliability data are usually analyzed by engineers and practitioner using a few special pur...

November 13, 2014

Pitfalls of Accelerated Tests

As product development cycles become shorter, and companies demand more rapid achievement of reliabi...

October 30, 2014

Reliability Block Modeling as a decision tool

Reliability Block Modeling (RBD) is a versatile tool that can be used to support program decisions a...

October 9, 2014

Seven Steps to Effective Problem Solving

In every human endeavor, a critical component to our success is our ability to solve the problems th...

September 11, 2014

On Duty Cycle Concept In Reliability Engineer...

The term “Duty Cycle” has been used widely on the daily basis in many industries for various pur...

August 14, 2014

Does the DoD use the wrong reliability metric...

Accurate measurements are essential for understanding, controlling and improving processes and perfo...

July 10, 2014

Thermodynamic Reliability

There are a lot of interesting approaches for understanding the physics of device degradation. Revie...

June 12, 2014

Innovation: Quality for Tomorrow

Innovation is one of the hottest topics in business today. You hear it all the time. How many time...

May 22, 2014

Reliably Solving Intractable Problems

Every organization has important problems for which there appear to be no solutions, i.e., where a b...

April 10, 2014

Design for Reliability A Roadmap for Design R...

With the increase in global competition, more and more costumers consider reliability as one of thei...

March 13, 2014

Natural and Man-Made Hazards: Risk Analysis, ...

In part 1 of this webinar, we describe how natural hazard risk is characterized by the probability o...

February 13, 2014

40 Years of HALT What Have We Learned

HALT began 40 years ago with a simple idea of testing beyond specifications in order to better under...

December 12, 2013

Data Acquisition: a Key Challenge for Quality...

Statistical analyses for quality and reliability improvement are only as good as the data upon which...

November 14, 2013

Design for Reliability (DFR) - A Case Study U...

Design for reliability (DFR) is an industry-wide practice and a philosophy of considering reliabilit...

November 4, 2013

Improved Efficiency & Reliability for Servers...

Data centers have traditionally been high power consumers. In a "green" data center, instead of bein...

November 4, 2013

Optimum Failure Truncated Testing Strategies

Companies use specialized testing laboratories to perform the tests, where the capacity of the test ...

November 4, 2013

A Novel View of Applying FMECA to Software En...

This webinar will enlighten your view of how traditional Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Anal...

October 10, 2013

Predicting Product Life Using Reliability Ana...

Achieving high product reliability has become increasingly vital for manufacturers in order to meet ...

August 20, 2013

Predicting Product Life Using Reliability Ana...

Achieving high product reliability has become increasingly vital for manufacturers in order to meet ...

August 20, 2013

Predicting Product Life Using Reliability Ana...

Achieving high product reliability has become increasingly vital for manufacturers in order to meet ...

August 20, 2013

Predicting Product Life Using Reliability Ana...

Achieving high product reliability has become increasingly vital for manufacturers in order to meet ...

August 20, 2013

Effective Reliability Testing to Drive Design...

Reliability testing is critical for new component qualification, design change validation, or field ...

August 17, 2013

Parametric Reliability Analysis

Many reliability engineers do not understand how to perform parametric reliability analysis. Yet it ...

August 8, 2013

Comparing Individual Reliability to Populatio...

When analyzing single-use non-repairable systems that degrade over time, summaries of reliability a...

July 11, 2013

Cost-Optimized Reliability Test Planning and ...

When planning for and interpreting reliability datasets proper application of Bayesian statistics le...

June 6, 2013

What the Quality Engineer Needs to Know About...

Wayne will sample, in 3 hours, his 3-day course. In the 3 hours, he will introduce the concept of re...

May 17, 2013

What the Quality Engineer Needs to Know About...

Wayne will sample, in 3 hours, his 3-day course. In the 3 hours, he will introduce the concept of re...

May 17, 2013

What the Quality Engineer Needs to Know About...

Wayne will sample, in 3 hours, his 3-day course. In the 3 hours, he will introduce the concept of re...

May 17, 2013

Fundamentals of Reliability Engineering and A...

This is a three parts lecture series. The parts will cover the basics and fundamentals of reliabilit...

May 16, 2013

Fundamentals of Reliability Engineering and A...

This is a three parts lecture series. The parts will cover the basics and fundamentals of reliabilit...

May 16, 2013

Ensuring Reliability in Lean New Product Deve...

This is a two parts lecture series. Many companies have begun their lean journey and have implemente...

May 16, 2013

Ensuring Reliability in Lean New Product Deve...

This is a two parts lecture series. Many companies have begun their lean journey and have implemente...

May 16, 2013

Plastic Package Reliability (Part 1 of 3)

Today, plastic packaged integrated circuits are ubiquitous even for high-reliability applications. ...

May 16, 2013

Plastic Package Reliability (Part 2 of 3)

Today, plastic packaged integrated circuits are ubiquitous even for high-reliability applications. ...

May 16, 2013

Plastic Package Reliability (Part 3 of 3)

Today, plastic packaged integrated circuits are ubiquitous even for high-reliability applications. ...

May 16, 2013

Achieving Effective FMEAs (Part 1 of 3)

FMEA has been around for many decades and has a long history as a method to support product designs,...

May 14, 2013

Achieving Effective FMEAs (Part 2 of 3)

The FMEA quality audit procedure is an essential part of ensuring good quality FMEAs. Yet, little is...

May 14, 2013

Achieving Effective FMEAs (Part 3 of 3)

In order to be fully effective, FMEA teams require an infrastructure and coordinated approach from m...

May 14, 2013

Introduction to Vibration Qualification Testi...

This Webinar will present the basic concepts used in vibration qualification testing. A condensed o...

May 9, 2013

Change Management Inside the Organization Und...

Complex organizations competing in today�s markets recognize that operational excellence (OE) is a...

April 11, 2013

Light Emitting Diode Failure Mechanisms

The increasing demand for light emitting diodes (LEDs) has been driven by a number of application ca...

December 13, 2012

Bayesian Methods in Reliability Engineering

With product reliability demonstration test planning and execution weighing heavily on cost, availab...

November 15, 2012

We just had a failure, Will Weibull Analysis ...

You've heard about Weibull Analysis, and want to know what it can be used for, OR you've used Weibul...

September 13, 2012

Root Cause Analysis Common Problems and Solut...

Due to popular demand we have scheduled an encore live event for Aug 31st noon US EDT. �The proces...

August 31, 2012

Obsolescence Management & The Impact on Relia...

The secondary market is often the supply chain of last recourse when a component product goes obsole...

July 12, 2012

General Bayesian Methods for Typical Reliabil...

Statistical methods are usually used in reliability analysis due to the uncertainty and distribution...

June 14, 2012

Broad Impact of Electrostatic discharge (ESD)...

Many engineers are aware of some aspects of the importance of ESD as a threat to product yield, retu...

May 17, 2012

Broad Impact of Electrostatic discharge (ESD)...

In this seminar, we discuss the challenges designers will be facing over the next several years. Cha...

May 17, 2012

Fundamentals of Reliability Engineering and A...

This is a three parts lecture series. The parts will cover the basics and fundamentals of reliabilit...

May 16, 2012

Field Failure Analysis Using Root Cause Patte...

To effectively analyze issue root causes, it is crucial that evidence is properly collected, coded, ...

March 8, 2012

Overview of Highly Accelerated Life Test (HAL...

HALT is not just "shake and bake" but a test philosophy, we look at the stressors and the level of o...

January 18, 2012

The Many Faces of Software Unreliability

Software reliability - or, more exactly, the reliability of software-based systems - can be profitab...

January 12, 2012

Reliability in the Solar Universe

The universe of solar products is large and expanding exponentially.Most of us are not aware of the ...

November 10, 2011

Understanding and making better use of availa...

Availability is the (Probabilistic) performance measure concerned with assessing a maintained system...

October 13, 2011

Why do a designed Experiment

This webinar looks at answering this question, not by going deeply into the various designed experim...

September 8, 2011

GD&T; and Reliability

Low process capability indices of Cp and Cpk cause poor product performance, early life failures and...

August 11, 2011

How to graph, analyze and compare sets of rep...

Many products accumulate repeated repairs and repair costs over time. Analysis of such recurrence da...

June 9, 2011

Medical Device Reliability Program

The FDA has their Design Controls in the Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 Part 820.30, then for ...

May 12, 2011

Reliability Roadmap using quality function de...

A project sponsored in 2010 by the Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (AVSI), AFE 74, engaged a com...

April 14, 2011

Manufacturability & Reliability Challenges wi...

The quad flat pack no lead or quad flat non-leaded (QFN) is one of the fastest growing package types...

March 10, 2011

Complex Conjugate History of Reliability

Are you interested in significant-other reliability developments (SOD) that have not been adopted? C...

January 13, 2011

Using TRIZ to Make Systems more Reliable

In our efforts to add what we believe to be useful functionality to products and systems, we frequen...

December 9, 2010

Parametric-Degradation-Based Virtual Failures...

This talk presents a parametric perspective of product reliability in terms of virtual failures quan...

December 7, 2010

Reliability Growth Planning Its Concept, Appl...

Reliability growth planning (RGP) is emerging as a promising technique to address the reliability ch...

November 11, 2010

Tolerance Analysis

There are many problems associated with tolerances that can be solved by the application of Monte Ca...

September 9, 2010

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