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 ...

It's not news that components eventually fail even in normal use; engineers are used to that. We also understand the likely failure modes: filaments burn out, film capacitors dry out, and batteries ...

Polyethylene (PE) has revolutionized low-pressure pipe system design on a global basis and is testimony to PE's unique combination of properties, which have driven the replacement of traditional pipe ...

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 ...

Failure rate or base failure rate refers to the number of failures per unit of time, typically in terms of failures in time (FITs) equivalent to one failure in a billion hours, which can be expected ...