This note will give you a quick overview on the basics of failure analysis. It will cover insights on how investigation and analysis of failed products help to determine the failure mode and the root ...

Ensuring parts meet specification is crucial and so it helps to have confidence in your measurement system. Parts that don’t meet specification, whether gauging composition or measuring thickness, ...

A typical journal article contains the results of only one analysis pipeline, by one set of analysts. Even in the best of circumstances, there is reason to think that judicious alternative analyses ...

Traditional standard cost variance analysis procedures are examined as motivational devices in a principal-agent model. The reexpressing of a cost realization into components (such as individual ...

Author’s note: This article shows how to derive circuit gain equations via a signal flow graph. With practice you may be able to write a gain equation by locating signal paths and loops in the ...