Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 98-105Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2008.2011672
Keywords
Burn-in; MEMS reliability; preventive replacement; quality and reliability optimization; specification limits; wear degradation
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Funding
- Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR) Program at the University of Houston
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Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) represent an exciting new technology, but to achieve more widespread usage and wider adoption within more industrial applications, they must be highly reliable, and manufactured to stringent quality standards. Many challenging manufacturing issues are of concern during the fabrication of MEMS, such as precise dimensional inspection, reliability modeling, burn-in scheduling, avoiding stiction, and maintenance strategies. However, only limited mathematical tools for improving MEMS reliability, quality, and productivity are currently available. This paper proposes a mathematical model to jointly determine inspection & preventive replacement policies for surface-micromachined microengines subject to wear degradation, which is a major failure mechanism for certain MEMS devices. The optimal specification limits for inspection, and the replacement interval are determined by simultaneously optimizing MEMS quality and reliability. The proposed model can be used as a tool for decision-makers in MEMS manufacturing to make sound economical and operational decisions on reliability, quality, and productivity. While illustrated considering one specific microengine design, the proposed model can be applied to a broader range of MEMS devices that experience wear degradation between rubbing surfaces.
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