Reliability And Quality Management Of Microsystem

The ability to design and manufacture microsystems cost-effectively with high reliability and with short time-to-market is crucial for a company's competitiveness. To avoid delays in product release, it is necessary to focus on minimizing the risk for reliability problems by identifying reliability issues early in the design phase and designing-in features that assure reliability. This requires that failure modes that may be crucial for the reliability must be identified and that measures must be taken to mitigate associated failure mechanisms. Input required for identification of crucial failure mechanisms is data about product requirements, life-cycle conditions, architectures, and manufacturing processes. All involved in the product development process including the end customer must be involved in this work.When new technologies are implemented, it is the product architecture and processes rather than the end product that shall be qualified. Factors that may affect reliability during production must be identified, and process control must be implemented to assure low variance in the production process.