Learning objectives
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This module aims at giving to the student the main instruments to deal with problems concerning reliability of electronic devices and systems. Notions of quality improvement and statistical process control will be also provided.
Course unit content
Reliability:<br />
- basic descriptive statistics and reliability concepts<br />
- methods to predict and assure reliability <br />
- the reliability of electronic systems<br />
- the reliability of electronic devices<br />
- techniques to improve reliability<br />
- the reliability tests<br />
- accelereted testing theory<br />
- examples of failure modes, failure mechanisms and failure analysis of electronic components<br />
Statistical Quality Control:<br />
- process control techniques<br />
- Control charts
Bibliography
Suggested textbooks<br />
P. D. T. O'Connor, Practical Reliability Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 1992<br />
P.A. Tobias, D. Trindade, Applied Reliability, Van Nostrand Reinholds, 1986<br />
D.C. Montgomery, Controllo statistico della qualita', McGraw-Hill, 2000<br />
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Recommended readings<br />
G. Mattana, Qualità, Affidabilità, Certificazione, Franco Angeli, 1988.<br />
J.C.Cluley, Electronic Equipment Reliability, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1981<br />
Mitra, Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1993<br />
E. Pollino (ed.), Microelectronic Reliability, Vol. II, Artech House, Norwood, 1989<br />
K. Ishikawa, Guida al Controllo Qualità, Franco Angeli, 1990.
