Decreasing the Time-to-Market Through Virtual Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigation

摘要

One of the most time consuming activities in new product development is qualification, defined as a process to audit the ability of the design. manufacture, and assembly to meet reliability goals. More specifically, the goal is to verify whether the anticipated reliability is indeed achieved under actural life cycle loads for some specified length of time. Qualification is usually accomplished by testing under accelerated loads to achieve tiem compression.