Category Archives: robust design

The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has given permission to pilots on some airlines to use iPads in the cockpit in place of paper charts and manuals. In order to gain this permission, those airlines had to demonstrate that the tablet … Continue reading →

On many of the projects I worked on it made a lot of sense to implement BISTs (built-in self tests) because the systems either had some safety requirements or the cost of executing a test run of a prototype system … Continue reading →

I have witnessed many conversations where someone accuses a vendor of forcing customers to use only their own accessories, parts, or consumables as a way to extract the largest amount of revenue out of the customer base. A non-exhaustive list … Continue reading →