At Reliability Solutions, we are pleased to announce our new partnership with TANGENT Engineering. Tangent Design Engineering is a Calgary, Alberta based product design development and engineering services team. Tangent has a diverse multidisciplinary team of mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, simulation engineers, industrial designers, and firmware engineers. Tangent Design Engineering has been in business for… Continue Reading
Hi Folks, Just a quick note to let you know I’m presenting at the 2017 ASTR Conference in Texas next week and it’s going to be on the following topic: Holistic Reliability – The Modern Day Solution to achieving Wold Class Reliability You can click that link to visit the info page to get more… Continue Reading
It has been an incredible summer for Reliability Solutions, most recently with 3 memorable events in Asia, which kicked off with Shenzhen China on the 24,25 July. On July 27-28 we were in Johor Bahru Malaysia and we rounded things off at the end of July/beginning of August with our Flexetronics seminar back in China. As always,… Continue Reading
To enable me to continually improve the service that I provide, I’m always looking to get feedback from clients and seminar attendees which I use to enhance the training and solutions that I provide. Recently, we had a well attended Seminar in Penang entitled Managing & Improving Reliability Within Electronics Product Design and the feedback… Continue Reading
Holistic ‘is a belief that the parts of something are intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole’ The meaning of the term ‘Holistic’ is very appropriate in today’s complex Electronic and Electro Mechanical products as we cannot assume a one off Accelerated Life Test, a small sample HALT test or a suite of… Continue Reading
Understanding what Reliability really is has become very important for manufacturers and designers. Too often, products go to manufacturing when the Reliability Team has missed something rather major. Reliability Prediction may be complex and it’s necessary for more than just evaluation and testing. The reliability engineers must know more about the product than anybody else,… Continue Reading
In today’s complex product environment becoming more and more electronic, do the designers and manufacturers really understand what IS Reliability ?? It is NOT simply following standards to test in RD to focus only on Design Robustness as there is too much risk in prediction confidence, it only deals with the ‘intrinsic’ failure period and… Continue Reading
The Coffin-Manson model was originally developed to model thermally induced metal fatigue failures. This of course has since been used to effectively model thermal induced stress failures in electronic packaged devices and complex electronic PCBA’s. It is well established that repeated Thermal Cycling stresses PCBA’s and enables quick stimulation of latent defects. The number of… Continue Reading
Reliability Engineers are always expected to know everything about a product’s expected failure rate before any field data available. If failure rate turns out to be much higher than expected or required, the reliability engineers become the focus for attention and often are made the scapegoat. Other engineers and management simply assume a small sample… Continue Reading
The application of Mil-Std-217 and other associated standards is now very outdated. These standards were developed for very old technology when failures were easy to ‘stimulate’ and simple high temperature testing was considered suitable as an Accelerated Life Test. Nowadays stimulating defects in complex consumer products is a significant challenge. HALT chamber makers will tell… Continue Reading