CEEES Publication No 3 Synthesis of an ESS Survey at the European Level ISSN 1104-6341
This publication was generated by the CEEES Reliability and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) working Group (now the Technical Advisory Board for Reliability and ESS) in 1998. It is soft backed publication of 30 pages.
The reliability and ESS group of the CEEES started its activities in 1995 with a survey covering the ESS practice ins the European electronic industry. The aim of this exercise, which covered a period of 3 years, was to determine the level of application of screening procedures in the fabrication of electronic products and to obtain experience concerning the effects of the screening procedures used on the quality of these products.
A comprehensive questionnaire containing 67 multiple choice questions with up to 10 possible responses per question was distributed to firms in several European Countries. The yield of replies varied considerably from country to country. Finally, a total of 136 usable responses were received according to the following distribution.
France
Germany
United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark
Switzerland
Total
74
13
21
28
136
The treatise provided in the publication contains the evaluation of those answers which provides a representative cross section of the screening methods utilised in 1998 within the named European countries. The publication reviews the reason for their utilization and the results and aims for adopting ESS.
Contents
Introduction
Survey Results
- General Remarks
- Evaluation of the Answers.
- Individual evaluation of each of the 67 Questions.