Help! I'm Shrinking?

Test and inspection have to identify ever smaller differences between passing and failing products. Although self-evident in electronic circuits, this trend also dramatically limits the acceptable level of contaminants or pollutants in any environment, impurities in materials, sensitivity to changes in temperature and other environmental conditions, and so on. How will test techniques keep pace with greater demands from products today and on the drawing board? Can existing tools continue to provide solutions? Will we need refinements of existing techniques? Entirely new methods that we currently can't even envision? A return to W. Edwards Deming's original goal of controlling at the process level? How is your company facing this inevitable challenge?

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