Problems and defects are expensive. Customers understandably place high expectations on manufacturers and service providers to deliver quality and reliability. Often, faults in products and services ...

How can you use FMEA in product development? I've talked at length about using FMEA as a means of rectifying problems in production. However, you can apply the methodology to the design process of any ...

A Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a “bottom-up” type of system analysis that is required for the standards certification of functional safety: IEC 61508 and all the standards deriving from ...

Effective occupational health and safety management requires a structured approach to hazard identification and risk assessment, which is best achieved by a management system. The implementation of an ...

Part 3 is the last part in this article series discussing how Analog Devices’ safety application notes provide critical information needed for technical safety analysis by system integrators designing ...