Measuring and Improving Reliability in Today’s Consumer Electronics Industry

Understanding and predicting Reliability in the fast moving consumer electronics industry is becoming more and more difficult, while pressure is increasing to maintain low warranty failure costs while developing new products in very short design cycles. The old approach of concentrating purely on Parts Count / Stress, Design Reliability and Design Margin simply do not protect the manufacturer from possible excessive warranty costs. Increased focus on Early Life Reliability testing and assessment is now more critical than ever