QUALITY ASSURANCE IN ELECTRONICS PRODUCTI ON

Increasing quality requirements on electronic products and the for suc cessful competition necessary minimizing of costs in subassemblies man ufacturing mean a challenge for quality assurance and it's concepts. W hile in today's electronics production the quality of the final produc t is stil assured by costly 100%-tests of the finished subassemblies t his function must be taken over by process control and process coordin ation already in the near future. The collection of all quality and re liability relevant object- and process parameters, their evaluation an d feed-back in process internal and process covering control levels is the base for the realisation of this concept. Essential components of a comprehensive quality assurance system in electronics production ar e a combined process- and test data network, an intelligent failure di agnosis system as well as intelligent test systems as shown in this pa per.