This presentation highlights significant reliability challenges across R&D and manufacturing as application markets emerge and grow to scale; necessitating to find a good enough balance between reliability performance, variable material cost and fixed capital cost for various materials, processes and components. Although reliability performance benchmarks vary depending on industry and applications, about 90% all failures result from functional reliability which can be broken down into appropriate testing with various mechanical motions, data & image measurement and climate or motion environments. We will demonstrate that for each major mechanical motions of elongation, bending and torsion, we present a non-technical in-depth look at the theory of each motion, show several different implementation of testing assessments and offer observations of each approach in a non-technical format. Something simple can be quite complicated with different terminology and approaches but is the foundation for accurate repeatability, precise control and the ability to take measurements to improve reliability. With a rich reliability data set in R&D, this supporting foundation can be extended in both manufacturing and field deployment; enabling increased productivity through education, performance benchmarks and technical standards to meet the needs of delivering products while maintaining flexibility and scale. Furthermore, such a consistent approach can be used to expand sustainable practices to re-use and replace components and materials.
