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Kirk Gray — Active Contributor

Author of Accelerated Reliability articles and Next Generation HALT and HASS, plus, co-host on Speaking of Reliability.


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

About Kirk Gray

My Passion for developing reliable products

Why did it fail?

This is the fundamental question that drove my career from first repairing electronics in the 1970’s to today. It was from this perspective that my passion for reliability engineering grew from investigating, discovering and understanding of why products fail. By starting with how electronics systems actually fail (empirical not theoretical) gave me a frame of reference to understand ways to rapidly discover failure mechanisms.

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SOR 1053 A Good Reliability Engineer

SOR 1053 A Good Reliability Engineer

A Good Reliability Engineer

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss a simple question of what being a practical and sound reliability engineer means.
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SOR 1052 Confidence Reliability

SOR 1052 Confidence Reliability

Confidence Reliability

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the term “confidence” and its use in reliability engineering
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SOR 1043 Value of Failures

SOR 1043 Value of Failures

Value of Failures

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss how many companies discard or never get back failed parts or subsystems even though they are high-value gold in the quest to make a more reliable product.
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SOR 1042 Reliability Tradeoffs

SOR 1042 Reliability Tradeoffs

Reliability Tradeoffs

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the tradeoffs involved in developing a reliable product.
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SOR 1036 Defined Environment

SOR 1036 Defined Environment

Defined Environment

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss that customers may use their products, such as washing machines, in more stressful environments than the design specifies or recommends.

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SOR 1035 Lasting Just Long Enough

SOR 1035 Lasting Just Long Enough

Lasting Just Long Enough

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the subject of reliability and how appliance manufacturing companies may design for a limited life in order to sell new models.
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SOR 1029 Thermal HALT

SOR 1029 Thermal HALT

Thermal HALT

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss a paper Kirk wrote about how thermal HALT can be a tool for finding marginal signal integrity issues.

Key Points

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss Kirk’s paper on the use of thermal HALT, initially posted on Kirk’s website, acceleratedreliabilitysolutions.com, in 2018, and a re-edited version that Fred recently posted on Accendo Reliability’s website. You can find a link to the article in the show notes below.

Topics include:

  • Kirk found little when he researched for information and data about how the physical electronics, especially the PWBA (printed wiring board assemblies) in high-speed digital systems, the variations in the board layers, and the surface roughness of the wiring traces affect the quality of the signal integrity (SI).  
  • As data bus speeds increase, effects causing errors in data transmission that were not significant at the time (when bus frequencies were in the megahertz range) became dominant at the gigahertz frequencies of today’s digital systems. Interconnect resistance, capacitance, and inductance are frequency-dependent, and as bus speeds increase and geometries continue to shrink, these variables may prove difficult– if not impossible– to model accurately.  
  • Thermal HALT and varying voltage and  clock margins may simulate the lot-to-lot parametric variations in semiconductors and PWBA’s, resulting in SI errors, but since few companies disclose their most useful methodologies, published data remains scarce

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SOR 1028 Dealing with Ongoing Changes

SOR 1028 Dealing with Ongoing Changes

Dealing with Ongoing Changes

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the challenge of adding changes to a product during the development process so that they can design and build the prototypes.
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Thermal HALT

Thermal HALT

A Tool for the Discovery of Signal Integrity and Software Reliability Issues

Abstract—Failures in the execution of software can have many different causes. Errors in coding, incorrect sequence of software execution, and other factors result in software “bugs” that, when discovered, must be corrected for reliable system operation. However, this paper focuses on another cause of software failures: those that come from variations in the many tiers of component manufacturing and system assembly. This paper shows how applying thermal HALT on electronic circuits, and systems helps skew parametric performance at the circuit board and system levels and increase the probability of discovering marginal signal quality and integrity, which can lead to software operational failures.

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Filed Under: Accelerated Reliability, Articles, on Product Reliability

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SOR 1016 Do it Right the First Time

SOR 1016 Do it Right the First Time

Do it Right the First Time

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the risks to reliability of having to rework or human handling of circuit boards and rework in general.
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SOR 1015 Moisture Failure Mechanisms

SOR 1015 Moisture Failure Mechanisms

Moisture Failure Mechanisms

Abstract

Join Kirk and Fred  discuss failure mechanisms caused by or accelerated by moisture.

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SOR 1005 Tech Obsolescence

SOR 1005 Tech Obsolescence

Tech Obsolescence

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss long-term reliability and the speed of technological obsolescence.
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SOR 1004 Confirmation Bias with HALT

SOR 1004 Confirmation Bias with HALT

Confirmation Bias with HALT

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the problem or benefits of having confirmation bias, where we accept or reject test results based on expectations.
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SOR 1000 The 1,000th Episode

SOR 1000 The 1,000th Episode

The 1,000th Episode

Abstract

Kirk and Fred and a long-time listener, Nik Sharpe, discuss the long history of doing this podcast from the first Speaking of Reliability podcast SOR #1, “Can you pass HALT?” recorded June 20th, 2015, to this 1000th episode.
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SOR 990 Impact of IoT on Maintenance

SOR 990 Impact of IoT on Maintenance

Impact of IoT on Maintenance

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discuss the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on maintenance and the data feedback to the manufacturer on usage and failure data.
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