VDA-German Automotive Industry Society describes process of system FMEA building. I would like to highlight 3 key areas of VDA approach: Functional analysis Failure analysis The process consists from following steps: Product breakdown to system levels Functional description of system Failure Analysis Risks Evaluation Risk Optimization First step is about definition of system. Team breakdown system into several level which depend on scope of analysis eg. sensor-sensing element-sensing element characteristics. Output of this step is system structure net. In second step team define requirements, functions and characteristics into each element of product structure. Logic behind is describe how requirements should be ensured by functions and characteristics/parameters. Objective …
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May Consultations Lead to New Framework of Services
Mike Silverman visited a dozen companies on the east coast of the US in May to provide consulting and to listen to what clients are doing and what their needs are. Mike visited companies from Rhode Island to Toronto and provided hour long consultations. Being always interested in how to better serve our customers, Mike listened closely to what everyone had to say about what their needs are. Based on these visits, we will be coming out with a new framework of services to better serve our clients long-term goals. Stay-tuned for more about this. …
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November is Medical Month
We have 3 great medical events in the month of November 1) On November 1st, we will host a free webinar entitled "Best Reliability Practices for Medical Devices. 2) On November 10-11th, we will be exhibiting and speaking at the San Jose BIOMEDevice Show. Our presentation will be on "Outsourcing product development to a multidiscipline team of specialists: A success story" at BIOMEDevice's Innovation Briefsfrom 12:45 pm – 1:15 pm on Thursday, November 11, 2010. We will be in booth #1210. 3) On November 12th, we will be having a Medical Device Open House at Ops A La Carte's headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. This will be a great mix between service providers in the medical market along with customers showing off new products - a great networking event for folks in the medical …
What is HALT and what is not HALT?
When we think of HALT, we think of HALT Chambers and the stresses they provide - cold temperature, hot temperature, rapid thermal transitions, vibration stress, and combined thermal and vibration environments. We need to expand our thinking of HALT into meaning any stress that can accelerate finding defects (in other words, to find design weaknesses before your customers find them). Many other stresses can be used for HALT including: ESD, drop testing, bend testing, water ingress testing, and more. In this presentation, we will explore some of the HALT stresses we can apply in addition to temperature and vibration. We will also explore some misuses of typical HALT chambers and how HALT practitioners believe just because they are using HALT chambers, they think they are performing …
Design for Reliability Seminar Dec 2 in Taiwan and Dec 7 in Shenzhen China
I am heading to Taiwan and China right after Thanksgiving to teach my Design for Reliability class. I would appreciate very much if you could pass these fliers to all your Asian clients in Taiwan and Shenzhen. Below are details and attached is class info for each in Mandarin. And if you have any clients in either area that would like for me to stop by, please let them know that my available dates are Dec 1 and 3 for visits in Taiwan, Dec 4 for visits in Hong Kong, and Dec 5 in Shenzhen (most companies do work Saturdays there so I guess I will be too). Possibly the afternoon of Dec 8 in Shenzhen or Hong Kong on my way to the airport but that will be tighter). The cost is $30 USD so it is very very inexpensive – just trying to get exposure out there. And I am offering all attendees …
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