Design for Excellence in Electronics Manufacturing

Series Editor's Foreword by Dr. Andre Kleyner

The Wiley Series in Quality & Reliability Engineering was launched 25 years ago. Since then, it has grown into a valuable source of theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of quality and reliability engineering, continuously evolving and expanding to include the latest developments in these disciplines.

Each year, engineering systems are becoming more complex, with new functions and capabilities and longer expected service lives; however, the reliability requirements remain the same or become more stringent due to the increasing expectations of product end users. With the rapid development of autonomous vehicles and growing attention to functional safety, these expectations have grown even further. It will require the utmost reliability to convince people to entrust their lives to an “inhuman machine”; only by using new visions, methods, and approaches to develop engineering systems – and electronic systems in particular – will this become a reality.

The book you are about to read was written by experts in the field of electronics design and manufacturing. Cheryl Tulkoff and Greg Caswell, whom I have the privilege to know personally, have a depth and variety of experiences covering virtually every aspect of design for reliability and quality manufacturing of electronics. This book presents an easy‐to‐read, step‐by‐step guide to designing, testing, validating, and building highly reliable electronic systems. It also addresses ...