Bringing Digital Transformation

• From component failure analysis to failure mechanism understanding

• From constant failure rate to failure level with time thinking in terms of PPM failure rates
• From reliability prediction to robustness validation

AS-IS TO-BE
Digital Twin
MBUS
Data-driven Digital Twins
• Site-centric • User-centric
• Fragmented • Closed-loop
• Reactive Smart and Closed-loop • Proactive, Predictive
Robust
• Skill-dependent Adaptive, I-V Curve • AI/Automation

Ai-powered Proactive
Programmability Maintenance

Intelligent

Fault Tolerance Design  Fault Isolation  Fault Detection Methods  Warnings  Predictions  Self Healing
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Reducing Costs by Improving Reliability Upfront
Reduce Unscheduled Maintenance Events and Corresponding Costs - upfront

• > ~3 Million Inverters Working on Field

Huawei Inverter Reliability Architecture
• All Categories Components And Manufacture Useful Life Weibull simulation
Material’s Design, Component Level > 25 Years
Reliability Estimation And Tests Bathtub Curve Field failure rate data

• > ~ 5000 Hours Accelerating Lifetime Test Data MTBF

Useful life evaluation
To evaluate inverter service life
And Report, And Huawei Inverter Useful Life To evaluate failure rate
Model And Results. of bathtub bottom curve
Top Down
Bottom Up
Inverter Accelerating Test
Component useful life
• World Class Manufacturing FMEA HALT
Telcordia SR-332 model
Opto-coupler THB (Temperature Humidity Bias)
• Excellent Field Performance IGBT
HTOL (High Temperature Operation Life)
Crystal Oscillator
PTC (Power and Temperature Cycling Test)
Capacitor
………… Salt Atmosphere and SO2 Test
Field Accelerated Test
Solder Joint
Rain Test in High Temperature
Design for Reliability & Robustness
PCB
Low Atmospheric Pressure Test
Higher Reliability -> Better Maintenance -> Lower Coating

downtime -> Lower OPEX -> Lower LCOE Thermal Grease

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