Friends and Colleagues, Please join us Tuesday, May 27 for a presentation that has great significance for all those doing type testing! Dr. Arthur Zhinger and Mike Silverman of Ops al la Carte will show us new ways to deal with not enough time and not enough samples to do our testing. Our speakers will show us how to use 'leading indicators' to overcome these obstacles.
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter Failures are expensive, failures irritate customers, and failures can KILL you??? How can you anticipate dangerous field failures with only a few units to test? Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 Dinner: 5:45 – 7:00 p.m. Socialize with your colleagues and tonight's speakers at: El Torito Mexican Restaurant, 2950 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (408-727-4426) -- just two blocks north of the meeting site. No RSVP required. Program: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. No admission charge. Open to the public. Topic: "Leading Indicators" for More Effective Life Testing The recent grounding of flights by American Airlines shows that operational maintenance and potential equipment failures are a serious "real-world" safety concern. Safety standards for power tools also look at failure modes. One way to anticipate field failures is to run life tests. This presentation describes a new approach to life testing, using "Leading Indicators", that can help overcome common challenges and constraints, such as: - Too few specimens and too little time available for life testing. - Life testing results too late to improve product development - Maintenance based on the average status of a population of similar units in similar operation, instead of the real-time status of each specific unit. Speakers: Arthur Zingher and Mike Silverman Arthur Zingher, Senior Reliability Consultant at Ops a la Carte, has over 25 years experience in physics and reliability. Arthur holds 33 issued patents with 19 more pending. Arthur was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, focused on HW Research. He was also a Staff Member at IBM Research, Yorktown NY, focused mainly on HW. Arthur holds a Ph.D. in Physics from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in Physics & Math from Columbia. Mike Silverman, Managing Partner at Ops a la Carte, has over 20 years experience in reliability engineering, management, training and improvement. Mike has tested over 300 products and consulted for over 200 companies in a variety of industries, including medical, telecommunications, networking, semiconductor equipment and consumer electronics. He has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a Certified Reliability Engineer through ASQ. Mike is a member of many professional societies and currently the IEEE Reliability Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter Chair. Meeting Site: Applied Materials, Bowers Café, 3090 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (map: http://www.scvemc.org/scv2003meetmap.gif ) Chair: Steve Baldwin, [email protected] Vice-Chair: Roberto Pasos, [email protected] Treasurer: Mark Montrose, [email protected] Secretary: Gary Eldridge, [email protected] Visit our chapter website: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pses/index.html - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
