BMW wants its EV owners to forget about battery issues. For the high-voltage batteries in the upcoming Neue Klasse EVs, BMW is sticking to a zero-defect approach. Every cell that comes into the ...

My aha! moment about the zero-defect concept happened in 2009. We were discussing with a customer how to document all data created during the production process in order to enable a traceability ...

Here is a probable scene and a not-so-simple question about our future with autonomous vehicles: An automated delivery truck driving its route makes a turn where it ...

Benjamin Franklin was an inventor, a journalist, a philosopher and a statesman, but he did not work in the apparel and footwear industries. However, one of the many quotes he’s so famous for applies ...

Ford opened order books for the new 2023 F-Series Super Duty trucks last October, piling up 150,000 pre-orders in five weeks. After expecting to get trucks into customer hands earlier this year, the ...

When discussing product quality in integrated circuits (ICs), two key aspects are essential: time zero defects and reliability. These concepts help distinguish between issues that appear immediately ...

Semiconductors may be small, but the impacts they have are significant. Semiconductors used in life-dependent applications, such as pacemakers, defibrillators, life support systems, automotive safety ...

India's manufacturing sector faces a critical juncture. Global buyers demand zero defects and reliability, moving beyond ...

ATPG targets faults at IC-gate boundaries, but 50% of defects are located within cells. Learn how cell-aware ATPG and user-defined fault models help to ferret out these hard-to-squash bugs.