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Engineers and managers involved with product development are constantly challenged to reduce time to market, minimize warranty costs, and increase product quality. With less and less time for testing, the need for effective accelerated test procedures has never been greater. This course covers the benefits, limitations, processes, and applications of several proven accelerated test methods including accelerated reliability, step stress, FSLT (full system life test), FMVT® (failure mode verification testing), HALT (highly accelerated life testing), and HASS (highly accelerated stress screening). A combination of hands-on exercises, team activities, discussion, and lecture are used throughout the course. Participants will also receive a copy of the instructor's eBook, Accelerated Testing and Validation Management.
Participants are requested to bring a calculator to the course.
- Choose the accelerated test method for a given application
- Analyze accelerated testing results
- Explain how to accelerate one's current test methods
- Explain how to accelerate one's validation program
- Adjust accelerated test programs for business situations
- Describe how product development cycles can be reduced from 18 to 6 months
This course is designed for anyone involved in product design, life testing, reliability testing and validation for passenger cars, light trucks, heavy duty, off-highway or aerospace vehicles, including reliability engineers, validation engineers, design engineers and their managers. Individuals who need to achieve shorter time to market or higher quality through custom test plans will find this course to be especially valuable. Purchasers or users of testing or engineering services will also find this course to be valuable. There are no prerequisites for this course although a technical background is helpful.
This course is instructed by Alexander Porter, Global Director of Engineering for Intertek, where he¿s been employed since 1992. Since 1996, Alex has been developing accelerated testing methods for mechanical components and systems. He has three patents relating to accelerated testing equipment and has authored more than 40 articles and technical papers on accelerated testing. His book, Accelerated Testing and Validation, was published by Elsevier in 2004. In the past, Alex¿s work has included FEA implementation in a laboratory setting and developing a thermal management system for an advanced data acquisition package by NASA's Drydon Flight Research Facility. He¿s a member of SAE and IEEE and holds a B.S. in aircraft engineering and an M.S. in mechanical engineering, both from Western Michigan University.
Jakin Wilson
Engineer
Toyota Technical Center
"This seminar was a very good overview on testing methods, their advantages, pitfalls and limitations."
Tim Gonzales
Design Engineer
Betts Spring Company
"I found this seminar comprehensive and useful. Many items unexpectedly helped me in other areas."
Steve Johns
Validation Engineer
PPG
"This is definitely the course to help you figure out what you want your reliability testing program to do."
James Sues
Test Engineer
Freedman Seating Company
"This program gave me ideas on how I can develop my own test facilities to a more efficient and cost driven unit."
Richard Stefansson
Manager, Testing and Laboratory
Volvo Penta
"Best testing course that I am actually going to go back to work and begin applying immediately."
Daryl Williams
Test Engineer
Charles Machine Works
"Very informative seminar that will help me understand accelerated test methods and utilize during my career."
Mark Work
Test Engineer
Panasonic
¿Insightful training, it covered multiple testing methods explaining the pros and cons of each technique. The instructor had real world examples of the various test strategies.¿
Donald Schaufus Jr
Test Engineer
L-3 Communications Telemetry