Reliability Articles

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....

If you are considering how to test your product, a combined high humidity and high temperature test is probably one of the tests on your list. It is one of the most common accelerated reliability test methods, especially in electronics. 85/85 test is most likely the...

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...

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...