Standards and Regulations
Abstract
Kirk and Fred discussing the role and relationship of meeting standards and making a reliable product.
Key Points
Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss how passing standard test requirements doesn’t mean you have made a reliable product.
Topics include:
- Standards are very critical to have useful interfaces such as IEEE 802.11 standard for Wi-fi so that we have easy interoperability between devices.
- Standards committees take years to complete them and many times they are technologically obsolete by the time they are finished. This is especially true with electronics technology.
- Standards have been driving safety improvements in cars with requiring air bags, back up cameras, and other systems as the new technologies come to market.
- Many of the safety standards for cars will not be necessary when we have 100% autonomous cars on the roadways.
- The market drives innovations and most safety systems in vehicles became available many years before the systems became required standards.
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Show Notes
Click on this link to access the article from the US ARMY and CALCE titled “Reliability Prediction – A Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”
For more information on the newest discovery testing methodology here is a link to the book “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust design of Electronics and Systems” written by Kirk Gray and John Paschkewitz.
I agree that too many companies rely on compliance standards to “shwo” their products are robust, not having performed FMEA, HALT or any other reliability, test to failure test.