Cost
Analysis and Sustainment of Electronic Systems Blog
Of
all the inhibitors to
achieving a market for new technologies, the demonstration of cost savings is
paramount.
In today’s world,
every engineer in the design process for an electronic product is tasked with
understanding the economic tradeoffs associated with their decisions.
The
Electronics Systems Cost Modeling Laboratory (ESCML) at the University of
Maryland develops modeling methodologies and tools that address all aspects of
the life cycle cost of electronic systems from hardware fabrication and
software development through sustainment and end of life. The ESCML
currently has programs that address:
- Electronic part obsolescence
driven design refresh planning
- Part obsolescence mitigation
approach optimization and lifetime buy quantity prediction
- Human skills obsolescence
- Prognostic Health Management
(PHM) driven maintenance planning and ROI
- Availability modeling for
systems (and design for availability)
- Warranty analysis and
linkages between warranty and reliability
- Economic tradeoffs associated
with hardware/software partitioning for systems on a chip
- Test and rework economics
models for use in manufacturing cost modeling
- Size/cost tradeoff analysis
for embedded and integrated passives in printed circuit boards
- Application of yielded cost
to electronics assembly
- Cost of ownership modeling
for packaging and interconnect technologies, and MEMS
- Web-based courseware
development for electronic products and systems cost modeling
ESCML Electronic Part Obsolescence web
site detailing research in obsolescence forecasting, design refresh
planning, viability and lifetime buy forecasting.
Sustainment/Sustainability
Definition
ESCML
NEWS
- P.
Sandborn, Cost Analysis of Electronic Systems, 2nd, P. Sandborn, World Scientific, Singapore, 2017.
- Maira
Bruck wins student paper competition at 2016
ASME Power & Energy Conference. Announcement
- 2016 Life-Cycle Cost for
Offshore Wind Workshop, October 5, 2016. Proceedings
- International Workshop on
Life-Cycle Costing of Offshore Wind Turbines and Farms, October 1,
2015. Proceedings
- Peter Sandborn elected Fellow
of the IEEE, December 2013. 2014 Fellow
List
- Peter Sandborn presented a
conference keynote address entitled “Design for Obsolescence Risk
Management,” 2nd International Conference on Through-Life
Engineering, Cranfield UK, November 2013.
- Electronic Systems Cost
Modeling Course to be offered on web in Fall 2013 - Course Announcement
- Peter Sandborn elected Fellow
of the ASME, July 2013. Citation
- Peter Sandborn named Director
of the Maryland Technology
Enterprise Institute (Mtech), December 2012.
- Amir
Krishani-Pour (Ph.D. Student) selected for the
Donald J. Bowersox Doctoral Symposium at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals 2012 Supply Chain
Management Educators’ Conference, September 2012
- Amir Krishani-Pour
(Ph.D. Student) selected for PHM Society Doctoral Consortium, “A Formal
Method for Using PHM to Satisfy Performance-Based
Logistics/Availability-Based Contract Requirements,” October 2012
- Peter Sandborn quoted in J. Shotter, “Burden of Obsolescence Becomes More Acute,”
Financial Times (London), May 7, 2012.
- Cost Analysis of Electronic Systems, P. Sandborn, World Scientific, Singapore, 2013. (1st
edition Errata)
- Peter Sandborn presented a
keynote address entitled “The Cost and Availability Impacts of the
Incorporation of Prognostics and Health Management into Systems,"
Vehicle Health and Prognostic Management Symposium, UK Defense Academy
(February 2012)
- Peter Sandborn presented the
conference keynote address at the 7th Component Obsolescence Group (COG)
International Conference in York England on June 29, 2011. The title of
the presentation was “Making Business Cases to Support Obsolescence Management”. White Paper
- CALCE (Peter Sandborn PI)
awarded 3-year NSF grant for "Design for Availability" (July
2011)
- Peter Sandborn and Ph.D.
student Gilbert Haddad were awarded best paper at the 2011 IEEE
International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management in Denver,
CO in June 2011. The paper entitled “Using Real Options to Manage Condition-Based Maintenance
Enabled by PHM,”
describes the use of real options to determine the optimal
maintenance actions to take for systems after a prognostic indication.
- Peter Sandborn presented a
keynote address entitled “PHM Enabled Logistics - Return on Investment and
Availability Management”
at the 2011 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference in
Shenzhen China on May 24, 2011.
- Peter Sandborn elected to the
Board of Directors of the PHM Society (October 2010)
- Peter Sandborn becomes
Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (August 2010)
- SiliconExpert
releases electronic part obsolescence forecasting based on University of
Maryland work, Press Release (November 18, 2008)
- Interview with Peter Sandborn
about technology obsolescence featured in August 4, 2008 ComputerWorld, Link.
- Interview with Peter Sandborn
about technology obsolescence featured in April 29, 2008 Wall Street
Journal, Link.
- A feature article entitled
“Trapped on Technology’s Trailing Edge,” discussing the technical and logistical challenges
posed by obsolete electronic parts appeared in the April 2008 issue of IEEE
Spectrum (http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr08/6095)
- "Obsolescence Driven
Design Refresh Planning for Sustainment-Dominated Systems” wins the Eugene
L. Grant Award for the best paper published during 2006 in the Engineering
Economist, Link
to Paper
- Call for Papers: IEEE
Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies Special Issue on
Electronic Part Obsolescence, Details
- Design refresh planning
featured in Industrial Engineer, June 2006
- Motorola Adopts CALCE MOCA
Design Refresh Plan for GTR8000 Hardware Platform (May 2006), Details
- First release of the lifetime
buy quantity optimization tool (February 2006), Details
- New book: Course Notes on
Manufacturing and Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Electronic Systems, by
Sandborn published (August 2005), Details
- "Forecasting Technology
Insertion Concurrent with Design Refresh Planning for COTS-Based
Electronics Systems,”
by Sandborn and Singh was selected by the International Society of
Logistics for the 2004 SOLE Proceedings Paper Award (June 2005).
- PartMiner
licenses electronic part obsolescence forecasting algorithms from the
University of Maryland, Press
Release (October 16, 2003)
- MOCA (Mitigation of
Obsolescence Cost Analysis) software tool wins 2002 University of Maryland
Information Sciences Invention of the Year, Summary (April
28, 2003)
- Electronic part obsolescence
forecasting, mitigation and management short course offered, Summary (February 2003)
- Embedded passives size/cost
tradeoff analysis tool featured in Maryland Research magazine, Link to the article (Fall 2002)
The
ESCML is part of the CALCE
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Maryland.
Last
updated: December 21,
2016