Written by Duncan Nicol, Market Segment Manager- Device Connections
Imagine a food processing production line where freshly prepared ingredients are rushing down the line being prepared for tomorrow’s ready meal. This is a time critical process where a line failure can result in the loss of valuable produce and a missed delivery deadline. A stopped production line costs money, simple as that, and so when designing the electronics used to run production lines, reliability is a key requirement.
Of course, these days with automated assembly and test, electronic devices are significantly more reliable than they were a few years ago but despite this, things occasionally do still go wrong.