In honor of the upcoming “Talk Like a Pirate” Day on September 19, I offer this lighthearted look at PIU assessment.
Captain (C)
“Ahoy me bucko! We be attemptin’ to get our transmitter design certified. It’s been shippin’ fer a few years now. We don’t got a…
Have a formal process for tracking, recording, and classifying field shipments and failure returns.
If your product was designed well in the first place, even if strict adherence to IEC 61508 was not followed, your field failure rate should be pretty low.
Using Proven-In-Use (PIU) methodology will…
If you’ve got lots of proven field history for a product, you should be able to claim that good work and get your product certified for use in functional safety applications. It is certainly still a challenge, but it is easier than certifying a new product. The…