The cost of reliability - Just ask Toyota
In the automotive industry we have always talked about the cost of reliability in terms of the warantee expense that they incur when they have a problem. You can justify a lot of tool and designer expense based on the cost of one failure that requires a warantee fix. Turns out warantee costs are a drop in the bucket compared to the cost in sales and credibility being experienced by Toyota.
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Tags: HALT, HyperLynx, Expedition Enterrpise, Reliability, Thermal Analysis, Mechanical Analysis, PCB Design
I’m just back from the Solutions Expos in Grenoble and Eindhoven. It’s the first time the Mechanical Analysis Division has attended Mentor’s Solutions Expos so I wasn’t sure what to expect.
The Grenoble event was preceded by a Networking Dinner & Cocktail Party “From the Earth to the Stars” held at La Bastille – Grenoble’s fortress and cable-car.
WOW! What a party. After a champagne reception cable … 
A variant on the original G. E. Box quote is: “Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful”. For electronics cooling simulation that really depends on what your expectations are of the simulation. Many use CFD to provide an insight or understanding of the thermal behaviour of the system. Others expect a 99.5% accurate simulation of reality. … 
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