Environmental Stress Screening: Its Quantification, Optimization and Management

This book presents comprehensive coverage of Environmental Stress Screening from basic concepts and the historical evolution of ESS, to the statistical and physical quantification of ESS. Covers the design-of-experiments approach to multiple-stress screening evaluation; ESS planning, tailoring, monitoring, control and evaluation; and ESS case histories.

Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) has become one of the primary approaches in modern electronic industry to precipitate and eliminate latent or hidden defects in electronic products which are introduced mainly during the manufacturing, assembling, and packaging processes. Temperature cycling, plus random vibration (shaking and baking), are the primary processes of ESS. This book presents comprehensive coverage of the subject from basic concepts and the historical evolution of ESS, to the statistical and physical quantification of ESS.