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> What really drives quality up is a big, hardass customer. What drives up quality is cost of defects to the manufacturer. Cost battlegrounds change over time.
by otter-rock 4y ago
> What really drives quality up is a big, hardass customer.
What drives up quality is cost of defects to the manufacturer. Cost battlegrounds change over time. Currently, some of the big ones are in electronic parts elimination and reliability.
> It's rare to see a transistor opened up today to see what went wrong.
Literally everyone cuts open their electronics nowadays. You don't see it because there's no longer any need to complain about it.
- orangepurple 4y agoDefine "everyone"
- londons_explore 4y agoEvery big electronics shop will have a failure team with an electron microscope able to decap any faulty chip and figure out which mosfet has blown up. It's time consuming expensive work though, so smaller places just replace the faulty parts or revise the design and hope.
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- otter-rock 4y agoThe categories mentioned in the quoted comments - semiconductor, defense, and car companies. Also others too, like industrial and certain consumer appliances and electronics. Search job listings for electronics failure analysis to get an idea. Their job is to find the failure mechanism so the design team knows what to change.