When a global medical device company needed help setting up a reliability program, Marie Getsug was up for the task. As a program manager of strategic consulting for asset management at Jacobs ...

The use of design-based care areas on inspection tools [1, 2] to characterize defects has been well established in recent years. However, the implementation has generally been limited to specific ...

Section 22(b)(1) of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (NCVIA) provides that [n]o vaccine manufacturer shall be liable in a civil action for damages arising from a vaccine-related ...

In the world of materials, the phrase “too big to fail” does not apply. According to the well known “size effect,” defects tend to arise in materials as they are synthesized in the lab. As the defects ...