Failure Analysis Articles

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...

Several factors affect the reliability of a product or the reasons for its failures searched. In this post we go through some of these factors. 1. Poor design Sometimes the cause for failure may be due to poor design. The error may have occurred for example due to too...

Thermal cycling testing is a very widely used especially in electronics. It exposes devices and components to fluctuating temperature, which causes fatigue in the components and especially in their interconnections. For example, cracking due to fatigue is one of the...

One particular figure is very commonly used when reliability is discussed: a bathtub curve. The bathtub curve shows the failure rate of a product as a function of time. Thus, it is a description of various failure rates for products over their lifetime. An example of...