UI component vendor Infragistics last month released an updated version of its TestAdvantage functional testing product built upon Hewlett-Packard Development Co.'s test platform, and says it expects ...

Counterfeit electronic components are an increasing threat to the supply chain for consumer, industrial and, more importantly, military parts. Some counterfeit parts are like counterfeit money, ...

Any programmable instrument can be used in a system. But what makes one system-ready and another just a programmable instrument? When developing a functional test system from scratch, you have many ...

A Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a “bottom-up” type of system analysis that is required for the standards certification of functional safety: IEC 61508 and all the standards deriving from ...

As we kickstart 2024, the focus is on several new trends and advancements while also evaluating the processes of the previous year. We tend to gauge what worked and what went wrong while focusing on ...

Analog techniques require a certain precision of components' electrical properties and a good prognosis of the changes that can occur during an application. This paper introduces a method for the ...

Originally embedded in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, today the Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants standard for inservice testing ...