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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2004
William Macdonald, Mansfield, TX (US);
George Logsdon, Arlington, TX (US);
Darren Lee Rust, Arlington, TX (US);
William MacDonald, Mansfield, TX (US);
George Logsdon, Arlington, TX (US);
Darren Lee Rust, Arlington, TX (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
This invention introduces systems and methods that control production process quality, wherein the production process has a plurality of durable items, each durable item is associated with a re-qualification process initiated as a function of a life expectancy associated therewith. The life expectancy associated with each durable item is reset upon completion of the associated re-qualification process. An exemplary method comprises (I) monitoring re-qualification indicia associated with each associated re-qualification process, and (ii) controlling availability of re-qualified durable items of the production process as a function of the re-qualification indicia to thereby control production process quality.