Design FMEA Training Applied to Semiconductors
Design FMEA Training Applied to Semiconductors is a 2-day training workshop that will help engineers and designer to apply D-FMEAs to semiconductors stages of development including Silicon IP, processor/SoC architecture, package and platform (firmware, memory, power, mechanical, peripheral interfaces).
Learning Objectives
- What Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) is
- Benefits of Design FMEA and the management of quality and reliability in semiconductor product design
- FMEA to semiconductor design and manufacturing processes
- How Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) is related to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) in semiconductor manufacturing
- Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) process and tools
- Learn about Design FMEA input and output including RPN, severity, occurrence, and detection rankings
- Learn about Requirements, Potential Failure Modes, Effects of Failure and Severity Ranking, Causes, Prevention Controls, Occurrence and Class Column, Detection Controls, calculating the Risk Priority Number (RPN) and more
- Select an Effective DFMEA Cross Functional Teams (CFTs) in your organization
- Analyze your process and plan Cross Functional Teams (CFTs) activities and control
- Plan Design Verification Plan & Report (DVP&R)
- Map design reviews to FMEA Outputs
Audience
The DFMEA training is a 2-day course designed for:
- Engineers, scientists, and managers involved with semiconductors design and manufacturing who need system level D-FMEA
- Anyone new to FMEAs or P-FMEAs with no experience
- Product design personnel
- Reliability, testing, and quality team members
- R&D personnel
- Product and process assurance people
- Assembly personnel
Design FMEA Training Hands-on and In-Class Activities
- 3 Labs
- 2 Workshops
- 1 Group Activity
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this seminar, the attendees are able to:
- Explain the concept and the purpose of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Discuss the benefits, requirements, and goals of FMEA in semiconductors design and manufacturing processes
- Decide when to use Design FMEA and when Process-FMEA
- Discuss the steps and process of the FMEA
- Define the Design FMEA scope
- Conduct all the steps of Design FMEA
- Conduct the ranking scales for Severity, Occurrence, and Detection
- Choose the appropriate technology methods to use as supplement to their DFMEA action plan
- Make the Design FMEA into an active document
- Develop a Control plan based on Design FMEA
- Determine corrective actions in order to develop a more correct FMEA
Course Outline
Overview of FMEA and DFMEA/Design FMEA
- Introduction to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Definition of FMEA
- How FMEA works
- Why and where using FMEA
- System/Subsystem/component Design FMEA
- Manufacturing and Assembly Process FMEA
- Machinery and Equipment FMEA (Logistics Support)
- Purpose of an FMEA
- Identifying potential risks
- Prioritizing the risks
- Developing an action plan to reduce the risks
Design-FMEA vs. Process-FMEA
- What is DFMEA?
- What is PFMEA?
- Difference between DFMEA and PFMEA?
- When to use which?
- Special features (critical and significant)
- Cooperation on special features
- Characteristics as inputs to PFMEA
- Procedure
- Step-by-step directions of a PFMEA
- How to use the FMEA Analysis Worksheet
- How to customize the Severity, Occurrence, and Detection Ranking Scales
- Control Plan
- Tips on Combo DFMEA and PFMEA
Principal Complementary Tools for DFMEA
- Boundary Diagrams
- Parameter Diagram (P-Diagram)
- Interface Diagram
- Ishikawa “Fishbone” Diagram
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Characteristic Matrix C
- Brainstorming
Principles of DFMEA/Design-FMEA applied in Semiconductors Industry
- D-FMEAs to semiconductors
- Stages of development including Silicon IP, processor/SoC architecture, package and platform (firmware, memory, power, mechanical, peripheral interfaces)
- Identifying potential or known failure modes
- Corrective and preventive actions
- Disciplined analysis of the product/system design
- Design-based failure modes
- Design FMEA steps and flow
- Examples
- How to use the DFMEA Scope Worksheet
- Step-by-step directions of a Design FMEA
- Failure Mode Avoidance FMA /FPA Failure Prevention Analysis
- Team structure and rules for efficiency – cross functional teams
- Control Plan
- Tips on DFMEA applied to stages of semiconductors development
Design FMEA for Semiconductor Activity Workshop: FMEA methodology and implementation
- Greater complexity and greater costs for semiconductor design and manufacturing
- Semiconductors product design problem
- Improving reliability engineering in product development based on design theory
- Analysis of critical semiconductor manufacturing steps: deposition, photoresist, lithography, etch, ionization and packaging
- Tools to extract product functions
- FMEA production and creation
Case study: Using C-K design theory to improve the FMEA process
- Systematic approaches to the development of FMEA
- The 7-step FMEA approach (AIAG and VDA 2019)
- Improving FMEA based on design theory
- Limits of failure-effect-cause identification using brainstorming methodology
- Combining creativity and robust analysis through design theory
- Data collection process and data analysis
- Brainstorming and identifying potential Failure Effects
- Disusing and determining the Severity of the Effect
- Analyzing and identifying Potential Cause(s) of the Failure Mode
- Determining the Probability of Occurrence of the Failure Mode
- Identifying Design Verifications techniques for the Causes
- Determining the Probability of Non-Detection of the Failure Mode
- Prioritizing risks based on Risk Priority Number (RPN)
- Corrective and Preventive Actions
- Techniques to prioritizing Actions Based on the RPN