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Electronic equipment failure

Nature

Although amounts spent by manufacturers on production testing are increasing rapidly, a rising percentage of faulty equipment is being delivered to customers. Every step in the manufacture of an electronic product, for example, produces defects of which a certain number inevitably remain undetected. There is a direct relationship between the percentage of undiscovered defects and the cost of the final product, since some defects must be accepted if costs are to be kept down. Such difficulties are likely to get worse rather than better with the introduction of more sophisticated techniques, such as integrated circuit technology, and with the increasing complexity of equipment which such techniques make possible.

Incidence

Electronic equipment failure most often occurs in complicated radio-electronic equipment, such as computers and automatic control devices. The principle causes are imperfect soldering, poor contact in plug and socket connectors and internal defects in the elements.

Claim

A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first (Klipstein's fifth law of production).

Broader

Mechanical failure
Unpresentable

Aggravated by

Static electricity
Unpresentable
Humidity
Unpresentable

Strategy

Value

Failure
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Amenities » Equipment
  • Societal problems » Failure
  • Technology » Electronics
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    D1475
    DOCID
    11414750
    D7NID
    138255
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020