When applying the precepts of Six Sigma, identifying the defects per million opportunities, or DPMO, of any operational process is crucial. The sigma level that a company operates at, which indicates ...

Faced with market challenges, Fannie Mae reintroduces a Notice of Potential Defect, allowing lenders a grace period to rectify significant loan issues before repurchase requests, amid calls for ...

Relying solely on end-of-line testing isn't enough when security, traceability, and mission reliability are vital.

In the world of plastic injection molding, scrap can cripple a company’s ability to turn a profit. Part defects can be caused by a multitude of molding factors, but speed and time settings associated ...

A new approach has been uncovered to detail the formation of material defects at the atomic scale and in near-real time, an important step that could assist in engineering better and stronger new ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In the past, random defects caused by particle contamination were the dominant reason for yield loss in the semiconductor industry - defects occur in the patterning process ...

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 ...

Optimizing speed and time are not only the ingredients to fulfill gold medal aspirations on the Olympic track, but the prerequisites to a robust surface mount (SMT) process of memory to bottom (logic) ...