Green Reliability discussion

September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I am giving a presentation tonight (Sept 30) at the IEEE Reliability Society meeting at the HP Oak Room in Cupertino, CA. Email me if you want details on the event or need directions. It is a FREE event. I started a linked-in discussion on this same topic and I posted a blog on our [...]

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Setting Reliability Goals using Benchmarking

September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

One of our readers, John Hurtley from Tolomatic, wrote the following: We have been doing design reliability testing for sometime now. We’re using a software tool from ReliaSoft that works well in designing the test and analyzing the results. A major problem within our wall is selecting a reliability level to be achieved and the [...]

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FMECA or FTA?

September 1, 2009 | 1 Comment

There are two ways to approach fault analysis — Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), which is currently the most common approach, and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Both look at the effects of component failures on a system, but come at it from different ways. FMECA starts from the lowest levels of the system [...]