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Quantifying the use environment remains a key step for ensuring
product reliability. Design engineers must examine all the possible
use scenarios and environmental stressors the product will likely
encounter, including thermal and mechanical conditions, such as
temperature and humidity, as well as shock and vibration, drops
and mechanical bending and product storage and housing.
For example, if a manufacturer develops a smartphone, they must
take into account that the product will likely experience greatly
varying temperatures, suffer a number of drop shocks throughout
its lifecycle and endure rugged environmental conditions, including
submersion. Quantifying these potential scenarios and use
environments will be essential to develop a reliable product and
effectively evaluate a product design.
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Quantify the Use Environment
