All product development includes an assessment of performance, quality and reliability before a product reaches market. This is especially true in the automotive industry, where manufacturers offer ...

Google “FMEA” and you’re likely to find a variety of definitions. Risk assessment tool. Process methodology. Predictive failure analysis. It’s used as a noun, a verb and an adjective. So, what is it ...

What are the most common mistakes you can make with FMEA? As a framework, FMEA is aimed at creating lasting solutions to potential problems before they even arise. However, that doesn't mean it's ...

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 ...

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 ...

During product development, design engineers make a wide variety of choices. It is motivating to chase options that might produce a high level of performance. However, what is the likelihood of those ...

This paper describes the methodology employed during the development of a System on Chip (SoC) platform developed for automotive applications. The methodology is based on the following major aspects.