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John Kreucher — Active contributor

Author of the Product Validation article series.

This author's archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.

About John Kreucher

John has a passion for coaching, consulting, and training individuals and teams on product reliability engineering topics.  He specializes in reliability sciences, validation test development and planning, reliability demonstration, accelerated life testing, ALT, Proportional Step Stress testing (MEOST), field-to-test correlation, warranty analysis, and validation engineering leadership.

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What is the job of a Validation Engineer?

What is the job of a Validation Engineer?

Once upon a time in my former life, I served as the Quality Manager for a $300M tier-one automotive manufacturing plant that provided components and assemblies to OEM vehicle assembly plants.  You would recognize our customers – most of the big names.  This assignment was a departure from my previous roles in product development and testing.  To say that the job was eye-opening is an understatement.  Years later, I described this three-year experience to friends as my “tour of duty on the front lines.”  Anyone who has spent any time in manufacturing can certainly relate!  

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Warranty – The Bad Old Days and What Came After

Warranty – The Bad Old Days and What Came After

If I must date myself, I cut my teeth as a product development engineer in the automotive industry in the bad old days when warranty terms were shockingly poor.  Let’s examine this through the lens of my first new car which I purchased in 1984.  Why was my warranty coverage so bad, what drove the significant improvements seen in the industry since that time, and how do we now validate our products to keep it that way?

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ALT Design using Damage Bins

ALT Design using Damage Bins

The Arrhenius Equation is widely used and accepted by reliability and validation engineers from many industries to develop accelerated life tests (ALT) for thermal aging environments.  

The general form of the equation describes the reaction rate of a process as a function of temperature (K), the Boltzmann constant (8.617E-5 eV/K) and two empirical factors.  It can be written as:

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Test Reliability Targets and Expected Field Reliability

Test Reliability Targets and Expected Field Reliability

An example of an automotive validation test reliability target is R97C50.  In this case, the objective of the validation effort would be to demonstrate at one life on test, with 50% confidence, that the product has a reliability of 97% or better.  

Does this mean that a field failure rate of 3% can be expected?  

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Validation Testing – Right Parts on the Right Tests

Validation Testing – Right Parts on the Right Tests

As you begin design validation (DV) and product validation (PV) testing you are entering the more formal phase of a test program.  Usually, you are working to internal and/or customer test specs with timelines that are critical and little margin for error.  If you’ve conducted adequate design verification testing and given your parts a chance to fail on test exposures that are similar to those your product will see in the field, you have reason to expect to be successful in validation [see previous article outlining accelerated test methods: Expect to Pass Validation].

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Expect to Pass Validation using Accelerated Tests

Expect to Pass Validation using Accelerated Tests

Product Validation Testing is a critical and expensive endeavor.  The part build process must align with the latest prototype process (for Design Validation (DV)) or production process (for Product Validation (PV)) and be fully documented for posterity.  Depending on the product and application, the validation test plan consists of a battery of tests, some of which are lengthy – often six months or more.  Because of this, DV and PV test plans are invariably on the critical path for a customer program.  Test failures that require fixing the design and repeating DV or PV jeopardize project timing and company profits.  Further, they jeopardize the customer program along with your company’s reputation.

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