Discussion Group Summary Report Designing in Reliability - Dir

Process Qualification without Product Qualification. The traditional method of qualifying a new process comes late in the development cycle. It is achieved by running qualification on a few lots of a product that exercises the main features of the process. If there are failures, much time and money is wasted in implementing process improvements and performing requalification. In the constant push to reduce development cycle times, methods must be implemented to start qualification of the process well in advance of any product. Identifying and fixing reliability problems early avoids the need for costly requalification and the unacceptable delays it incurs.