Design for Excellence Symposium

April 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Our first of three DfX Symposia was a big success here in San Jose California. We even had a number of folks dial in for the webinar version. Our next DfX Symposium will be in Huntsville Alabama the week of May 17-21. Check out our website at www.opsalacarte.com for more details.

Feb

15

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 [...]

Feb

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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.

Nov

22

Design for Reliability Seminar Dec 2 in Taiwan and Dec 7 in Shenzhen China

November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I am heading to Taiwan and China right after Thanksgiving to teach my Design for Reliability class. I would appreciate very much if you could pass these fliers to all your Asian clients in Taiwan and Shenzhen. Below are details and attached is class info for each in Mandarin. And if you have any clients [...]

Sep

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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 [...]

Aug

10

Reliability vs. Durability

August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I was recently contacted by one of my validation engineers in Asia, who asked me to help him understand the reliability requirements, submitted by one of the Asian automotive OEM for a passenger compartment electronic module. The requirement specified a B1 life as the warranty period for the module (3 yrs) and also specified the [...]

Mar

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Reliability – Best Practices

March 1, 2009 | 5 Comments

At one time or another all of us have been the “new” reliability engineer on the block. You have been given a set of expectations from your boss to either ensure that your product is 1)”good enough” and ready for production or 2) will meet the expected “reliability”. So as the “newly” minted reliability engineer [...]

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