Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) has become a critical non-destructive testing method for confirming high reliability in ...

The field of reliability demonstration testing has evolved to address the challenges inherent in validating the performance of complex systems under practical constraints. Traditional methods, often ...

The study of lifetime distribution and reliability testing seeks to characterise the statistical behaviour of time-to-failure data for components and systems across a range of applications, from ...

Environmentally friendly is a term rapidly invading the electronics industry. The electronic industry will be facing great challenges over the next few years as the solder used in electronic products ...

Proper selection and effective testing can increase contact reliability in the end product while reducing the overall cost of using relays. Who said relays are pass�? While electromechanical relays ...

iNEMI (International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative) has begun driving two collaborative efforts that will focus on reliability and testing issues for MEMS technologies. Using information ...

To address pad cratering, a vexing problem in lead-freeassemblies largely attributable to problems with the resin used to make aprinted-circuit board, IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries ...

Although genetic methods of species identification, especially DNA barcoding, are strongly debated, tests of these methods have been restricted to a few empirical cases for pragmatic reasons. Here we ...

The feasibility, validity and reliability of the Time Trade-Off (TTO) and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) methods in obtaining preference values for health states were compared in a random sample of the ...