Problems and defects are expensive. Customers understandably place high expectations on manufacturers and service providers ...

FMEA is one of the most powerful approaches to safeguarding your projects from failures and defects. It isn’t a cakewalk to ...

In recent years, the subset of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) has become a valuable tool in corporate settings, helping engineers spot potential risks in product design before significant ...

This asynchronous course presents an overview of the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) approach to calculate risk and proactively avoid potential failures in a process or service. Participants ...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a well‐established systematic approach that has evolved to address the complexities inherent in both healthcare and manufacturing sectors. In these ...

This article provides insights into the importance of an IC’s pin failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to comply with functional-safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO... 1. FMEA and its ...

Functional safety has been a long-standing requirement for many electronics applications, including implanted medical devices, space-borne systems, and nuclear power plants. The widespread use of ...

When a chip malfunctions it’s the job of the failure analysis engineer to determine how it failed or significantly deviated from its key performance metrics. The cost of failure in the field can be ...

Neutron diffraction and small-angle neutron scattering techniques can assess residual stress in and the microstructure of hydrocarbon pipelines. Neutron diffraction and small-angle neutron scattering ...

Failure rate or base failure rate refers to the number of failures per unit of time, typically in terms of failures in time (FITs) equivalent to one failure in a billion hours, which can be expected ...