Gorilla Reliability

摘要

Remember the American Tourister commercial with the suitcase in a cage with a gorilla? We were meant to believe that if the suitcase could survive the (quite excited) gorilla for some period of time, it would last a lifetime enduring the baggage handlers, belts, and carts at the airport. Unfortunately, many people approach reliability testing of PCBs with the same gorilla mentality and believe that the more punishment the PCB can be subjected to the better.