Hi all,

I can't find any information regarding to this topic. Actually, my company is trying to implement the MPE and PAT by following the JDEC standard. Can anybody share with me how to implement MPE program in the Assembly area (die, wire and moulding proces)?

Check out the AEC website. - Automotive Electronics Council.

It's JEDEC standard and not JDEC. Attached is a copy of this standard which can be downloaded free at JEDEC's web site (http://www.jedec.org/).

Regards.

Thanks for the standard, harry.

Anyone have any 'practical' (real life) thoughts?

NOTE: JEDEC is the leading developer of standards for the solid-state industry. Almost 2700 participants, appointed by some 270 companies work together in 50 JEDEC committees to meet the needs of every segment of the industry, manufacturers and consumers alike. The publications and standards that they generate are accepted throughout the world. All JEDEC standards are available online, at no charge.

Maverick Product Elimination is a way to protect customers from receiving anomalous or abnormal products. Commonly known methods to implement this are: use of Yield cut limits, statistical bin limits or Part Average Test.The PAT is beginning to gain more popularity now as it is endorsed by the AEC as a good way to detect early life failures in the manufacturing facility. The whole idea is to reject any outlier by estalishing "PAT limit" in your tests. This is very similar to "guardband" where outliers even are considered as rejects even if it is within specs.

Anyone have any 'practical' (real life) thoughts?

I found this interesting (from page ii of the document):
The component quality and reliability performance currently being achieved by the electronic component industry has improved to a level where product anomalies have become a major impact to the end user.
This seems to be saying, "We have improved our quality levels to the point where things now blow up in users' faces." Who writes this stuff?

If I'm reading the whole thing correctly, it seems to represent an attempt to blame manufacturers for being unable to predict the unpredictable. If that's not the case, how is "Maverick Product" any different from your garden variety "nonconforming" product?

As a case in point, consider the recent Sony laptop battery debacle. Those batteries blowing up (thanks to improved quality levels, apparently) seem to be the sort of thing this standard is trying to address, but is this trip necessary? Do we really need a "new" method for being prudent and careful? How does this standard help anything?