Market Research & Analysis of failures due to environmental gases in Automotive Electronics and integration of learnings in development testing

Automotive industry is growing rapidly with innovations leading to increase in new features and improving the Quality of vehicles. These new components are developed with the available design standards across global OEMs. This Quality research paper aims to address the need of revision of design standards due to environmental factors prevailing in India. With the increase towards autonomous mobility, the number of electronics is also increasing, and this involves hardware & software evaluation. The hardware testing is a point of concern due to increase in the failure rate from the markets. Environment changes are very much evident with the growing economies and OEMs are developing the components with innovation, but if the basic design standards are not revised in parallel with the changing environment, the issues will continue to trouble the end customers. The failed cases data received from across the country was analyzed and observed that the cases are majorly reported from urban localities established near to the city drains. The lab report of failed components shows a chemical reaction with environment gases leading to conductivity issue. Based on the study, Quality research was done around the localities to understand the gaseous concentration. The data shows 50X high gaseous concentration compared to the development standard and the same was then simulated. This data gave us a new perspective to revise the development testing standards & can also enable OEMs to better understand the market problems & take action for environment factors. With the ever-changing environmental conditions & expansion of automotive market, the possibilities of such impacts are limitless & this approach can be used to further study the automotive issues due to other factors like Dust, Water, Temperature, Humidity, Snow, Insects etc.