The development of complex products with high quality in dynamic markets requires appropriate robust design and tolerancing workflows supporting the entire product process. Despite large number methods tools available for designers tolerance engineers, there are hardly any consistent approaches that applicable throughout all stages. This is mainly due to break between primarily qualitative conc...

As part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Low-Cost Solar Array Project, a program of module and array circuit-design studies has been carried out to improve the reliability of modules and to develop strategies for improving array system fault tolerance. Analyses to determine optimum element configuration and circuit design strategies, made with the use of a computer model that uses the measura...

Fault detection and diagnosis techniques that are essential for defect tolerance, fault tolerance and self-repair of molecular computing systems are discussed. These techniques enable robust molecular computing system design protected from manufacturing defects and run-time errors in the underlying hardware.