The webinar presentation “How to identify and mitigate reliability
risks in product development” is based on the book “Improving Product
Reliability and Software Quality – Strategies, Tools, Process and Implementation by Mark A. Levin, Ted T. Kalal and Jonathan Rodin 2019”. It walks through the reliability risk mitigation process for each of the five phases of product development: Concept Phase, Product Planning, Design & Development, Test & Validation and Product release & ramp. At each phase of product development, the activities for risk identification and mitigation are discussed along with the deliverables for success.
Mark Levin is the Corporate Reliability Manager for Product Development at Teradyne, Inc. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, a Master of Science degree in Technology Management from Pepperdine University, a Master of Science in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland and completed all but his dissertation for a PhD in Reliability Engineering from the University of Maryland. He has more than 40 years of engineering experience spanning industrial electronics, aerospace, defense, consumer electronics, and medical electronics industries. He has held several management and research positions at Hughes Aircraft’s Missiles Systems Group and Microwave Products Divisions, General Medical Company and Medical Data Electronics (MDE) before joining Teradyne. His experience is diverse, having worked in manufacturing, design, and research and development. He has developed manufacturing and reliability design guidelines, reliability training classes, workmanship standards, quality programs and JIT manufacturing. He is the co-author of the book “Improving Product Reliability” and “Improving Product Reliability and Software Quality” 2 nd edition by Mark Levin, Ted Kalal and Jonathan Rodin. He holds one patent.
