In the Twilight Zone of Humidity Testing

February 25, 2010 | 2 Comments

After 25 years in the reliability field I am still a bit mystified by the humidity testing. Generally the environmental tests can be divided into two major categories: Durability tests, where some form of wear-out mechanism causes products to fail. The most common examples of durability tests are vibration and thermal cycling. The second group [...]

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Design News: Toyota Problem “Unforeseeable”?

February 15, 2010 | 4 Comments

Design News, January 28, 2010: ”Toyota’s sticking gas pedal was an almost-unforeseeable problem, experts say, and the best course of action now is for engineers to ensure that drivers can handle the failure if it happens again.” Q. I would like to hear how the Reliability Engineering community feels about this. Was it unforeseeable? How can [...]

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Free Design for Reliability Seminar in L.A.

February 4, 2010 | 1 Comment

We are providing a FREE 1/2 Day Design for Reliability seminar on Thursday, February 11th at Wyle Labs in El Segundo, California. If you are interested in attending, please let us know and we can provide you more info.

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Reliability Conferences – RAMS, MD&M, and CMSE

February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Last week was the annual Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) conference. We presented 5 papers/tutorials. If you were not able to attend, let us know and we can get you copies of our presentations. Next week is the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) show in Anaheim California. We will be presenting a paper on [...]