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FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis): A Quick Guide to Minimizing Defects and Faults in Your Projects

Problems and defects are expensive. Customers understandably place high expectations on manufacturers and service providers ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Prepare For Success With A Failure Mode And Effects Analysis And Control Plan

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Failure mode and effects analysis applied to the maintenance and repair of anesthetic equipment in an austere medical environment

MICHAEL A. ROSEN, BENJAMIN H. LEE, JOHN B. SAMPSON, RAHUL KOKA, ADAORA M. CHIMA, ONYEBUCHI U. OGBUAGU, MEGAN K. MARX, THAIM B. KAMARA, MICHAEL KOROMA and ERIC V ...
Electronic Design

Know Your Safety Application Notes (Part 2): Failure Mode Distribution

This article discusses the three most common reliability prediction techniques for the failure rates of ICs and how safety application notes provide such failure-rate information... 1. FMEA and its ...
JSTOR Daily

Use of Fault Tree Analysis for Automotive Reliability and Safety Analysis

Fault tree analysis (FTA) evolved from the aerospace industry in the 1960's. A fault tree is deductive logic model that is generated with a top undesired event in mind. FTA answers the question, "how ...