Parts Selection and Management Course Overview Course Outline Past Customers Related Links and Texts Instructors Contact

Course Overview

This course presents an "eyes-on, hands-off" approach to parts selection and management, which enables companies to:

• employ risk assessment and mitigation techniques to address technology insertion;
• organize and conduct the fact-finding processes necessary to improve part quality, integrity, application-specific reliability, and cost effectiveness;
• make an informed company wide decision about parts selection and management, based upon company resources, philosophy, goals, and customer demands;
• choose parts to fit the functionality of the product, to satisfy system and assembly and design level constraints, and to match subsequent manufacturing and handling requirements;
• understand and evaluate the part's actual "micro-environment" within a system, and then choose the correct technique to fit the part to its intended environmental requirements;
• maximize system supportability by preparing for and meeting the challenge of parts becoming obsolete during system life, and
• improve supply-chain interactions and communications with regulatory agencies in order to minimize time to profit.

 

Course Outline

1. Motivation for an overview of a new parts selection and management process

2. Initializing the parts selection and management process

• identification of application-level requirements and constraints
• technology sensing and cascading
• candidate part selection

3. Part manufacturer, part quality and integrity, and distributor assessment

• manufacturer quality assessment criteria
• part quality and integrity assessment criteria
• distributor quality assessment criteria

4. Determining the local environment

5. Performance assessment

• understanding part temperature ratings
• methods of using parts beyond the manufacturer-specified temperature ranges
• legal liabilities

6. Reliability assessment

• using manufacturer integrity to assess reliability
• virtual qualification
• accelerated testing

7. Life cycle obsolescence assessment

• life cycle phases and their characteristics
• technology trends driving obsolescence
• impacts of obsolescence
• device family trends
• obsolescence management strategies

8. Management activities

• risk cataloging
• resources required to manage risk
• impact of unmanaged risk

Past Customers

Related Links and Texts

• Parts selection and Management
• Life Cycle Forecasting, Mitigation Assessment and Obsolescence Strategies
• Plastic Encapsulated Microelectronics

Contact

Michael Pecht
301-405-5323
education@calce.umd.edu
Bldg. 89, Rm. 1103
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

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