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Your thoughts on Burn-in and Vibration Testing

47 1 Sep 05.2019, 17:43:04

Hi All,
I have some products that I'm trying to improve the reliability. The products range from assemblies with 1 PCB 40mm*40mm to assemblies with three 100mm*250mm boards stacked together.
I'm thinking of doing some burn-in and vibration of these PCA's and assemblies to remove the infant-mortality components and interconnect assemblies.
So my thoughts were:
Step 1. Burn-in stressing of the PCA's after receipting into the store. 
Step 2. Vibration stressing of the PCA's. 
Step 3. Makeup the PCA assemblies ie the three stack of boards. (Significant labor assembly content at this stage)
Step 4. Burn-in stressing of the Assemblies. 
Step 5. Vibration stressing of the Assemblies.
All of the PCB have some kind of integrated circuits. Ranging from a single sensor interface to a 676 pin FPGA (BGA)'s.
Some PCA's can be powered up as individual PCA's, others required the assembly of the three stack PCA before power can be applied.
So what are your thoughts on:
1. Temperature to use?
2. Constant elevated temperature for 1 week (duration as an example only)?
3. Cycle temperature between ambient and Max Temp, say every 4hrs for a 24hr period ie 8 cycles? 
4. What about vibration stressing.1 Axis or 2 or 3 axis? G Force level.
At the moment, I only have a large industrial oven. No environmental chamber (Big). So I can only heat.
I could get a freezer to put the PCA's into?
Recommendations on a vibrating table? for PCA's etc.
Thanks,

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A****min

Sep 11.2019, 09:26:41

Everyone is suffering from reliability problems caused by the ever-denser boards, fine pitch & leadless components, and RoHS solder.
Vibration is great at discovering intermittent solder joints that very likely could fail in the future.  
Having said that..........The key to effective vibration stressing is that your circuit must be electrically monitored during the test. It could be as simple as a power-up and the monitoring of its current consumption, to elaborate software that  feeds all sorts of stimulus and reads back the responses.

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