Today, it is well understood that the right mix of technology insertion is key to successful electronic product design, manufacture, and marketing. There are no insurmountable barriers that prevent a company from gaining a significant share of the electronics market. While technology will continue to fuel new product development, management decisions on when and how to use technology and what to use it for will differentiate winners from losers. Few companies have failed because the right technology was not available. Far more have failed when effective management was not available. This course presents an "eyes-on, hands-off" approach to parts selection and management, which enables companies to:

• employ risk assessment and mitigation techniques to address technology insertion;
• organize and conduct the fact-finding processes necessary to improve part quality, integrity, application-specific reliability, and cost effectiveness;
• make an informed company wide decision about parts selection and management, based upon company resources, philosophy, goals, and customer demands;
• choose parts to fit the functionality of the product, to satisfy system and assembly and design level constraints, and to match subsequent manufacturing and handling requirements;
• understand and evaluate the part's actual "micro-environment" within a system, and then choose the correct technique to fit the part to its intended environmental requirements;
• maximize system supportability by preparing for and meeting the challenge of parts becoming obsolete during system life, and
• improve supply-chain interactions and communications with regulatory agencies in order to minimize time to profit.

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1. Motivation for an overview of a new parts selection and management process
2. Initializing the parts selection and management process
• identification of application-level requirements and constraints
• technology sensing and cascading
• candidate part selection
3. Part manufacturer, part quality and integrity, and distributor assessment
• manufacturer quality assessment criteria
• part quality and integrity assessment criteria
• distributor quality assessment criteria
4. Determining the local environment
5. Performance assessment
• understanding part temperature ratings
• methods of using parts beyond the manufacturer-specified temperature ranges
• legal liabilities
6. Reliability assessment
• using manufacturer integrity to assess reliability
• virtual qualification
• accelerated testing
7. Life cycle obsolescence assessment
• life cycle phases and their characteristics
• technology trends driving obsolescence
• impacts of obsolescence
• device family trends
• obsolescence management strategies
8. Management activities
• risk cataloging
• resources required to manage risk
• impact of unmanaged risk

Books

• Parts selection and Management
• Life Cycle Forecasting, Mitigation Assessment and Obsolescence Strategies
• Plastic Encapsulated Microelectronics