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Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Tools and Techniques (Pt. 2)
Failure Analysis

Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Tools and Techniques (Pt. 2)

In part 1 of our failure analysis series, we shared the best ways to find the sources of failure modes ...

Instrumental January 25, 2021

Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Finding Sources of Error (Pt. 1)
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Failure Analysis Methods for Product Design Engineers: Finding Sources of Error (Pt. 1)

Instrumental December 21, 2020

Launching Instrumental Data Streams
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Launching Instrumental Data Streams

Instrumental November 19, 2020

Glue and coating failure modes in electronics manufacturing
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Glue and coating failure modes in electronics manufacturing

Leslie Williams August 4, 2020

The data that takes the luck out of EVT, DVT, & PVT
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The data that takes the luck out of EVT, DVT, & PVT

Leslie Williams March 5, 2020

Listen to your customers: leverage TWR data to build better products
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Listen to your customers: leverage TWR data to build better products

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky November 19, 2019

Case Study: Motorola Accelerates Product Maturity During Development
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Case Study: Motorola Accelerates Product Maturity During Development

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky June 3, 2019

How to Detect Defects Using AI (from Nanalyze)
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How to Detect Defects Using AI (from Nanalyze)

Nanalyze, a leading investment information website profiled Instrumental this week in their latest installment of articles on Artificial Intelligenc ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky May 22, 2019

Instrumental Hardware Omnibus 2017
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Instrumental Hardware Omnibus 2017

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky December 26, 2017

Beyond the Teardown: How we think about failure analysis, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 edition
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Beyond the Teardown: How we think about failure analysis, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 edition

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky October 22, 2017

Glitter iPhone case leaks caused by glue process issues
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Glitter iPhone case leaks caused by glue process issues

At the beginning of August, Mixbin recalled over 275,000 liquid glitter iPhone cases after two dozen reported incidents of chemical burns. ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky August 8, 2017

Out of control! Nintendo Switch controller suffers from manufacturing variation
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Out of control! Nintendo Switch controller suffers from manufacturing variation

Even before Nintendo Switch started shipping at the beginning of March, the left Joy-con was experiencing intermittent connectivity issues. Antenna ...

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky April 14, 2017

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