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Failure-mode Analysis leads to Automatic Window Shade Capable of 200,000 Cycles

March 11, 2014
Sponsored by MICROMO
With the high reliability required for the commercial aviation application, MSA Aircraft Products Inc. needed good consistency from motor to motor — and they got it.

The motor performance actually saved them time and testing costs in the product acceptance process.

“The rejection rate is such that we’re comfortable using the products that we receive without putting them through a test platform,” says Program Manager Joe Pedrotti.

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