What about validation? If debugging techniques adopted into R&D process are not enough to cover all the possible fault scenarios?
Talk with the owner Dr. Ing. Christian Carrieri, CEO President:
“Project validation is a must: it’s the moment you buy your life insurance. Do your customers want your products faster? Hurry up! All should have been done before yesterday!
Hurry? No, life teaches me that hurry means errors. You’ll only have one chance to fit the market with perfectly working products, or you’ll get banned. Or even worse, you’ll create thousands of defective objects that will be claimed back.
Either way, take the correct time and do the right validation or you will fail.
Validation means time and expenses, I know. But it’s the only investment that guarantees your success.
Engineers use systematic approaches like RAMS and DFT, moving to FMEA or FMEDA while development is running, to create new reliability features, so that the project can explore all possible high-risk faulty scenarios, to generate a fruitful validation plan.
But it’s also important to point that it’s a must to implement a clear and managed V model products definition-development and validation process, using all the appropriate tools to track chances, and validate. Emails get lost and calls simply blow away in the wind months or years later. We use Redmine, for example, it’s super!
In Novasom Industries, after 25 years of experience developing – with proud success – complex projects, we are convinced that a high complexity validation plan could require thousands of electrical tests, in thousands of different HW and SW fault scenarios. This will generate millions of permutations to be tested in an ISO 26262 A functional safety vision, for example.
That’s why we created a Hardware tool that can inject HW faults on your specific products, and allows you to read the results: a real test, real measurement for your HW and SW testing team. No more theoretical-statistical data, but real measurement to assure your real success.”
Explore our unique patented In-circuit Fault injection HIL for your HW and SW validation