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DRIVING THE TRANSITION TO REAL-WORLD TESTING


On the road to reliability: Ahmed Abou Gharam, Design For Reliability Director at Molex, explains how Test-to-Failure is ensuring long-term performance


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n a world of increasingly complex vehicles, testing components to generic  


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32 March 2025 | Automation


DRIVING THE TRANSITION TO REAL-WORLD TESTING


 


         In the recent Molex Reliability and Hardware Design Survey of more than 750 design engineers and system architects, 86% of respondents revealed that they design    


Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) is a     shortened period, and then determining                methodologies, designers can optimise   


       prototype – we’re predicting the reliability  Predictive engineering and digital twins          withstanding the demanding conditions –    and even more experimental, enabling           range of interdisciplinary engineering expertise, from design to prototyping and 


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