We often want to know if our product will work as expected in our customers environment. Creating an environmental test plan that clearly shows weaknesses and strengths should be part of your program for each product. Let’s explore the steps and resources you should consider when creating an environmental test plan for each product. We will discuss why using standards or even the plan from the last program may not provide you meaningful information. Understanding how your product responds to your customer’s environment provides the information for your team to make improvements and improve product reliability. More a discussion than a lecture, let’s talk about the challenges and benefits to creating a unique environmental test plan for each product under development. This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 11 November 2014.

1. Environmental
Testing
Fred Schenkelberg

3. Common
Approaches
Just use the same plan as the last
project.

4. Suite of fixed tests

5. Replicate expected range

6. Standards based

7. DO CUSTOMERS APPLY SINGLE
STRESSES WITHIN STANDARD
RANGES DURING USE?
How’s that working for you?

8. HOW DO YOU USE
ENVIRONMENTAL TEST
RESULTS?
Do the results make a difference?

9. Benefits?
Where is the value?

10. Quick and Easy

11. Inexpensive

12. Meaningful

13. HOW DO YOU AVOID TEST
RESULTS BEING IGNORED?
Do the results make a difference?

14. Meaningful
Results
Let’s get value from each test.

15. Connect to Decisions

16. Connect to Areas of Risk

17. Provide
Actionable
Feedback

18. SOMETIMES ITS JUST THE
CHANGE THAT IS DIFFICULT?
When was the last time your environmental testing program
changed?

19. Failure
Mechanisms
Understand how environmental
stresses lead to failures

20. Time

21. Customer
Expectatio
ns

22. Weather, Use, Transport &
Storage

23. HOW WELL DO YOU
UNDERSTAND THE RANGE OF
CONDITIONS?
Are all your customer operating at the limits?

24. Environment
Characterization
Not just specs anymore

25. Weather Data

26. Usage Data

27. Button Pushing

28. Waterfall
Sequencing
Make the most of each sample

29. Identify Risks & Failure
Mechanisms & Stress Conditions

30. Sequence
testing to
accumulate
damage &
minimize test
time &
minimize
samples
required

31. Margin Detection
Find the boundaries

32. Test to Failure

33. Focus on Risk Areas

34. Look for Interactions

35. Create Meaningful Tests
1. Recognize the risks
1. Identify select tests
1. Estimate Value
1. Determine Conditions
1. Document Success

36. Reliability Value
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37. What are your
Questions?
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