Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventually
Product failure is deceptively difficult to understand. It depends not just on how customers use a product but on the intrinsic properties of each part—what it’s made of and how those materials respond to wildly varying conditions. Estimating a product’s lifespan is an art that even the most sophisticated manufacturers still struggle with. And it’s getting harder. In our Moore’s law-driven age, we expect devices … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Robert Capps | Source: Wired | Subject: Operations