“Speed is the new currency of business,” said Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. In my experience, however, speed without quality is nothing but a fast track to failure. This delicate balance between ...

The prevention of data errors in a hard disk by invalidating bad sectors. Built into the drive itself, defect tables are used to identify the bad sectors that are encountered when the drive is first ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. This article dives into the happens-before ...

(1) The elimination of bugs in software and flaws in hardware. Defect management is part of a software or hardware development project. (2) The prevention of data errors in a storage medium by ...

Explore how Venkata Sesha Sai Praveen Tunikuntla advanced Android prototype testing at LG, ensuring global carrier ...

Today's systematic and more subtle random defects are not only decreasing yields, but are also increasing the number of test escapes, or defective parts per million (DPPM) shipped out. One of the ...

Magnetic flux leakage (MFL) testing is a widely established non‐destructive evaluation technique used to assess the integrity of ferromagnetic materials in applications such as pipeline inspection and ...

Detecting macro-defects early in the wafer processing flow is vital for yield and process improvement, and it is driving innovations in both inspection techniques and wafer test map analysis. At the ...

A modified Ln-Sec equation should replace the original Ln-Sec equation for all grades of pipe through X80 with full-size Charpy energies of 15 ft-lb and higher. This first part of two articles reviews ...