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Aug. 29, 2002, in Japan, the first corp member, Advantest, joins ASF
On Aug. 29, Advantest Corporation (http://www.advantest.co.jp/en-index.shtml) joined
NPO Association for the Study of Failure (ASF) as the first corporate member.
Advantest Corporation's mission is to "provide "technology support on the leading edge, and is
"helping push the technological envelop through test and measurement.
It is one of the world's leading companies that provides "measurements and tests". They contributes to the development of electronics, information communication, and semiconductor manufacturing industories by providing the latest measuring technologies in 5 fields: optical/electronic mesuring instruments, semiconductor testing equipment, test/handler, device interface, and nano-technology.
Advantest Corporation's expectation to ASF
| "Our products test and measure our customers products and guarantee their quality as well as providing the end users the assuarance of the quality. Therefore, our products must be high quality. Now, due to higher performances and more complex functions, maintaining high quality is becoming more difficult than ever. At the same time, high speed decision making is demanded in various areas such as shorter TAT process for product development and improvement of performance by estimating future demands. We are planing to apply the study of failure as one of the methods to meet the demands and to respond to the changes."
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Trials and errors always exist at the leading edge of the latest technology. Efforts to create the product of development, knowledge, for the future is the beginning of the Study of Failures (Refer to the figure on page 173 of "Learning from Failure"). They are applying the study of failure to take aggressive actions for maintaining high quiality and responding to changes flexibly and quickly.
[Original written by Kenji iino, translated by T. Hamadani]
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