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The continuous further development of products and solutions in automation requires standardised and flexibly adaptable industrial services that are oriented to the entire life cycle of an…

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Driven by ever shorter product launch times, the chemical/pharmaceutical industry, in particular, is developing modularization concepts for its process plants.In 2013, the “Modular Automation”…

Robustness Validation is a valuable failure-mechanism-driven approach to product reliability and qualification, which relates real application conditions to test conditions. This brochure is…

​Early integration of the Robustness Validation [RV] approach in the development phase is a key factor for successful qualification. This Manual supports the application of RV as described in the…

With this 3rd publication the focus is drawn to the validation of robustness of a group of two or more interacting Electronic Control Units respectively Electrical/Electronic Modules. This brochure…

The manual of the AK Field failure analysis is to help the electronics supply chain – conformal the VDA recommendation – to reduce the inspection expenditure for well-known failure causes and to…

The progress report 2013/14 of the Application Group (APG) Automotive in the ZVEI provides a comprehensive overview of the main automotive-specific activities of the Electronic Components and…

Robustness validation of stand-alone Electronic Control Units. More than 140 pages documented the practical application, methods of extrinsic reliability detection and prevention of failures. It…

A key point of Robustness Validation is the statistical interpretation of failures generated in accelerated Stress Tests. This brochure gives a clear and easy understandable introduction to the…