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Yizhak Bot

Mr. Bot is a Certified Reliability Engineer from American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) 1982 and Electronic Engineering from Tel-Aviv University (1977-1981).
Mr. Bot has more than 25 years of experience in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) and Integrated Logistic Support (ILS). He was the RAMS/ILS manager of many defense and commercial projects of more than US$25 Billions. He has written articles for leading magazines, conducting seminars and gives lectures worldwide. He is also the inventor of fiXtress, CARE and apmOptimizer technologies for the EDA market.
From 1989 he is the president of BQR, a leading software developing firm in Israel. Previous employment as a Reliability and ILS Engineer, freelance adviser (1984-1989), Tadiran Telecommunication (1980-1984) and Israel Defense Force (IDF) (1970-1980).

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41:17 Parts Stress and Derating: Thermal Analysis & Electrical Stress Derating Integrated in Altium Designer Imagine that you are at a ski site and you sit on a ski lift, which can carry a max of 60kg according to the manufacturer's specification while your weight is 66kg. That is only 10% above the maximum allowed weight. Will you worry? Of course. A good ski lift designer will use a safety factor and will design it several times stronger which can hold, for example, 300Kg taking into account the possible weight of the skiers. In electronics, it is the Watch Video