Design reliability

In most cases, a VDC output power supply is a simple AC-to-DC converter that has a power supply voltage of 110 or 220 VAC, which it converts into VDC.

The use of FMEA and FTA analyses benefit a company throughout the design process, manufacturing process, and in-field use of their products.

Is physical testing for reliability really necessary? In this blog, we show how to use failure oriented accelerated testing (FOAT) and save unnecessary time and costs.

The Department of Defense is one of the biggest technology customers in the world. Landing a contract can make a company. It can also be a yoke around their neck.

At one time or another, we’ve all shuffled across a rug and touched a door handle or other metal object only to feel the zap of static electricity.

Have you ever dropped your phone? Of course, that is a rhetorical question. How many screens have I cracked (?) would be a better one. It is pretty amazing that the devices continued to work.

Doing special things with a circuit pattern is a hallmark of analog design. All of the important signals on the board added together are equal in importance to one net; that net is the ground net.

As PCB design increases in complexity, it is more important than ever that designers use ECAD-MCAD co-design of multi-board PCBs to shorten design schedules.

Component tolerance modeling is an invaluable design insight tool that reduces cost as well as build times. All the while improving overall circuit design.

Environmental quality function deployment can be achieved with diligence and attention through PCB design and manufacturing.

SPICE simulation works to make circuits more efficient and hit target goals.

The physics of failure is an invaluable analysis tool for perfecting designs and improving upon them.

Conducting an FMEA risk assessment of the components used on your PCB design will help to assure quality and availability before you begin circuit simulation.

You can drastically cut your design time down while at the same time reduce the chance for errors by utilizing engineering productivity and design reuse tools.

FMEA lean manufacturing provides invaluable design insight and reduces cost as well as build times. It also reduces cost, failures and increases production.

PCBs that are not designed to good DFM rules are prone to unexpected manufacturing costs. Conducting a cost effectiveness analysis during layout will help.

Knowing the applications and industries of your electronic devices, helps an FMEA chart or failure mode effects analysis chart can yield more consistent production.

Circuit board failures can often be attributed to vibration fatigue. Here is some data that will help you to design for reliability on your next PCB design.