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 ...

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 ...

While Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a very effective method for driving reliability and quality improvements, when used improperly, this tool can also result in unidentified root causes, ...

This article is authored by Naveen Huilgol, global quality leader, Philips.

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.