Study Guide

Objective

The objective of a Climatic and Reliability Testing course is to provide you an understanding of the principles, methods and techniques for testing the performance of products and systems under various environmental conditions and to assess their reliability under normal and extreme conditions. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to perform climatic and reliability testing, understand the results, and use that information to make informed decisions about product design and development. The goal is to provide you with an understanding of how to perform tests that mimic real-world conditions and to use that information to improve the reliability and performance of products in the field.

Content

Introduction to Climatic and Reliability Testing: Definition, importance, and applications of climatic and reliability testing.

Environmental Testing: Overview of environmental testing, including temperature, humidity, vibration, shock, and altitude testing.

Reliability Testing: Overview of reliability testing, including statistical methods, life testing, accelerated life testing, and stress testing.

Test Equipment and Methods: Overview of test equipment and methods, including test chambers, temperature and humidity controls, and data acquisition systems.

Test Planning and Design: Overview of test planning and design, including selection of test conditions, sample size, and test duration.

Data Analysis and Reporting: Overview of data analysis and reporting, including statistical methods, data presentation, and interpretation of results.

Environmental and Reliability Standards: Overview of environmental and reliability standards, including industry and international standards.

Case Studies: Overview of case studies of successful climatic and reliability testing, including lessons learned and best practices.

Future Trends and Challenges: Overview of future trends and challenges in climatic and reliability testing, including new technologies and emerging trends.

The course may include hands-on laboratory exercises and projects to give students practical experience in performing climatic and reliability tests

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Knows reasons to do climatic and reliability testing.
- Standards to consider
- General features of the typical climatic tests
- Simulation vs. field testing

Can demonstrate and understand the concepts of reliability engineering.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Is confident with:
- Reasons to do climatic and reliability testing
- Determine a life test, estimate reliability values from the test data, and set confidence limits on the results.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Is able to:
- Understand Climatic and Reliability Engineering in Business
- Manage Data to Business Case Justification
- Understands the Criticality and Risk
- Understands Life Cycle Considerations
- Can do Root Cause Analysis
- Manage a climatic and reliability testing project