Throughout the school years, Scientists and Engineers are taught how and why things work. People learn by making mistakes and taking corrective actions so that the same mistakes will not be made again. We say that people mature.
Manufacturing processes can mature in a similar manner.
The result was miraculous increases in product reliability. The achievements of the microelectronics industry were admired by other electronics-related companies and, to some extent, duplicated. The Electronic Failure Analysis Handbook is an attempt to address this deficiency. Background on system and component reliability is presented, as well as an entire chapter on the use of EFA in product liability. Efforts are made to present information to allow optimization of these techniques for specific technologies.