Problems and defects are expensive. Customers understandably place high expectations on manufacturers and service providers to deliver quality and reliability. Often, faults in products and services ...

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1. FMEA and its variations. When an FMEA has its failure modes prioritized according to their importance, the process is called failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA). When an FMEA ...

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 ...

Failure identification and management is a key aspect of keeping an operation running smoothly and safely. Being proactive in addressing failure can save money, time and even lives. Failure mode and ...

Due to the increased complexity in safety-critical system hardware, software, and mechatronics, the functional safety development process must address systematic and random hardware failures. Numerous ...

What's needed to fill in the gaps in understanding GaN HEMTs and their catastrophic failures. Degradation mechanisms that plague GaN HEMTs. Why overvoltage ruggedness and surge-energy withstand go ...