Kirk Gray, Consultant

Tim Rodgers interviews Kirk Gray concerning his observations and advice concerning accelerated testing best practices.

Kirk Gray is the principal consultant with Accelerated Reliability Solutions and an instructor on HALT and HASS methods.

He has almost 30 years of experience in reliability testing, engineering, and management positions.

He was a senior reliability test engineer at Dell’s desktop PC organization where he developed highly accelerated stress audit procedures for power supplies.

Kirk also co-authored an IEEE paper that describes the opportunities to improve reliability and reduce cost by performing accelerated testing at temperatures higher than what is in the design specifications.

He’s a senior member of IEEE and contributes regularly to conferences all over North America.

In this episode, Kirk Gray discusses:

• Problems with traditional reliability training
• Accelerated and stress testing to evaluate new designs and prevent reliability failures
• The lack of correlation between test results and field performance

Recorded September 2014.

DTK Kirk Gray ConsultantTim Rodgers

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Show Notes

Links:

• Accelerated Reliability Solutions
• 2011 Workshop on Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability presentation “The Electronics Industry Needs a new Fram of Reference for Qualifying the Reliability of Products — Moving from Time Metrics to Stress-Limit Metrics”

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