Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is a systematic way of mapping your product’s early-warning system. It’s a process where design engineers make sure products not only do what they’re supposed ...

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 ...

In order to proactively handle potential process or product errors before they occur in manufacturing or on a customer’s production line, many organizations implement a Failure Mode and Effects ...

Failure Mode, Mechanism and Effect Analysis (FMMEA) is a reliability analysis method which is used to study possible failure modes, failure mechanisms of each component, and to identify the effects of ...

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 ...

A Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a “bottom-up” type of system analysis that is required for the standards certification of functional safety: IEC 61508 and all the standards deriving from ...

NXP Semiconductors’ HEF4000 series is one of the of the oldest CMOS logic families but are still widely used in many new designs because of its wide operating voltage, low power consumption, and ...

Those of us who work with medical device software are well aware of the radiation therapy software disaster in the mid-1980s, in which patients received 100 times the intended dose of radiation due to ...