We will head back to the basics and break down everything there is to know about failure rates. We will learn:
- What a failure rate is
- How the standards define them
- Their unit of measurement
- Types of failure rates and failure modes
- Where do you get failure rates from
- How did a failure rate for a product get determined
- How you know if the failure rate is appropriate for your application
- What to do if it’s not
And of course, take time at the end to answer any question you may have about failure rates!
Loren Stewart graduated from Virginia Tech with a BSME. She has over 10 years of professional experience. She currently works for exida consulting as a safety engineer, focusing on the mechanical aspects of their customers. Along with assessing the safety of products and creating FMEDAs and reports, she researches stiction and is creating a database for the 2H initiative according to IEC 61508.