Electronics Articles

Global component shortage – how to consider reliability when replacing components

This year we have discussed with almost every customer about the difficulty of getting components and the extremely long delivery times they have due to global component shortage. The lack of semiconductors has been a problem for a long time, but lately it seems that...

Why is it important to measure how corrosive is your use or storage environment?

Corrosion is one of the most common reason for failures, and the additional expenses due to it are counted in billions. Especially, in electrical applications corrosion can very quickly destroy the functionality of devices and in worst case be a major safety risk....

Intermittent Failures – User’s and Failure Analysist’s Nightmare

A few years ago, we were buying a new mobile router for my family. After the purchase, we quite soon realised that the router had some reliability problems, and it stopped working properly, when we had used it only for a very short time. The router worked okay after...

Comparison between mixed flowing gas and flowers of sulphur corrosion testing

Corrosion is a major cause for failures in electronics and its importance is increasing. Therefore, corrosion testing is also getting more and more attention these days. Choosing the most suitable test method is, however, complicated because corrosion processes are...