 What
you will learn:
With test costs increasing beyond 25% of
the manufacturing costs; with time-to-market requiring delivery as soon
as the design is completed; with quality control demands for six-sigma
and better; and with a need to quickly and effectively support complex
products in the field, test management can impact the bottom line
profits of any organization. You will learn the economic aspect of
testing and how it can benefit production, marketing, procurement,
quality, field support, cost analysis, and process control. You will
learn how to create test strategies and what automatic test equipment
(ATE) is best suited for your organization. You will learn to calculate
the return on investment for design for testability, for using the
boundary-scan (JTAG/IEEE 1149.1) and for built-in self test (BIST). By
the end of this course, you will fully understand the test issues that
impact bottom line profits, and recognize that the test investment is
far greater than simply the purchase price of an ATE. You will also
recognize that the difference between a good and faulty test strategy
can make millions of dollars difference in the organization's
bottom-line profits.
Abstract:
The course will cover test related
management issues, introducing students to this important cost center.
It will look at the economic impact of automatic testing, test program
set (TPS) development, test requirements analysis (TRA) and test
requirements documentation (TRD). It will introduce Design for
Testability, Boundary-Scan and Built-In Test from an investment
perspective. It will provide specific guidelines for selecting and
procuring ATE.
Who should Attend:
If you are serious about your test and
repair investments, this course is for you. It is aimed at managers from
various disciplines who are concerned with the economic impact of test
on the profitability of the entire organization. Though the course
discusses highly technical issues, you don't need to be technical to
keep up with the course. The aim of this class is to bring test related
technical issues into an economic forum, where common
return-on-investment analyses can be performed to evaluate their
profitability.
Course Content:
How does test benefit Manufacturing, Quality and Support?
- What is quality and what does
it have to do with test?
- Time-to-market
- Process control through test
- Customer support
Different types of tests and how to specify the ones you need.
- Capabilities Tests
- Limitation Tests
- Reliability Tests
Economics of Component Test and Burn-in
- Impact of bad components
- Is incoming inspection
needed?
- Stress testing of components
Economics of Board Test
- What are the origins of board
level faults?
- Impact of fault distribution
- Process or Performance
Testing?
Economics of Field Support
- MTBF vs. MTTR
- Availability and Operational
Readiness
- Tear down test strategies
Managing Test Development
- Stuck-at fault test
programming
- Evaluating test program sets
(TPSs)
- Cost-estimation techniques
for test program development
- TPS procurement and
acceptance
Design for Testability and its economic impact on overall costs
- Why is design for testability
(DFT) an economic issue?
- What is too little and too
much (DFT)?
- Managing DFT within
concurrent and non-concurrent engineering
Boundary-scan and Built-In Self Test (BIST) Strategy Development
and Evaluation
- Is JTAG/IEEE-1149 test
feasible today?
- Does BIST reduce test costs
sufficiently to justify itself?
- Hierarchical BIST and its
economic impact
How to select ATE
- Technical evaluation of ATE
using a test requirement analysis (TRA)
- Economic evaluation of ATE
- Vendor evaluation
Financial assessment and reporting
- Return on investment
methods, including ARR, NPV and IRR
- Presentation techniques
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