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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
May. 08, 1997
Glenn F Urbish, Coral Springs, FL (US);
William Boone Mullen, III, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Scott G Potter, Coconut Creek, FL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
An automated method of predicting the number of defects that will occur during the manufacturing of a new electronic assembly design on a specific assembly line. Defective components are counted (214) as they are manufactured on an assembly line (210). The counted defects are stored in a historical database (220) and the defect rate is calculated. A bill of material for the new electronic design (230) is enumerated and information associated with each component is extracted from a library database (240) into a quality forecasting engine (250). The quality forecasting engine imports the enumerated bill of material and imports the stored defect rate from the historical database to perform a calculation of a predicted number of defects (260) for said new electronic assembly using the extracted library information.