Reliability of Electronics Handbook

Reliability problems can occur at all stages in the design, production and use phases of electronic equipment or the component parts.

This handbook is designed as a practical guide to the problems that users of electronic components and systems are likely to encounter and how to avoid them.

This guide shows that the causes of failure can be located and diagnosed by careful analysis.

This is crucial to avoiding repetition and ensuring the right corrective action is taken, to allow production to restart or to give the right information for legal or insurance claims.

The approach used here is entirely practical and based largely on ERA's experience of actual problems that have occurred while assisting the electronics industry over 3 decades.

All the problems that are discussed have been examined at ERA and most of them have occurred over the last 10 years.

The pictures have been selected to show faults that are commonly found in electrical equipment. This essential handbook, with over 100 illustrations, is designed to be of practical use to electronics designers, component engineers, purchasing managers, production specialists, test engineers, quality control and quality assurance departments, field service engineers, returns departments, installation and maintenance engineers, and loss adjusters.