Many electronic products today must operate under significant environmental stress for countless hours. Printed circuit board (PCB) designers now realise the importance of capturing the physical ...

M.S. Kennedy Corporation has been using a method called Reliability Prediction to evaluate design concepts, compare design alternative, and other studies. This application note further discusses how ...

For decades, the electronics industry has been stuck using the obsolete and inaccurate MIL-HDBK-217 to make reliability predictions that are required by the top of the supply chain (Department of ...

Version 4.0 of Sherlock Automated Design Analysis software—DfR Solutions’ platform for analyzing, grading, and certifying the expected reliability of products at the circuit-card assembly level—offers ...

An industry expert discusses use of the Weibull distribution for life testing electromechanical relays. Life tests for electro-mechanical relays can be set up using relatively small sample sizes, ...

We come from a time when mobility and fossil fuels have been indistinguishably linked with electric vehicles being successful only in a few niche markets. The past decade has been different. It has ...

Prediction promises control. Simulation embraces uncertainty. When business strategy is rooted in historical data alone, it assumes the world will repeat itself. Today’s leaders need more than ...