It comes up periodically...how to protect electronic circuits in the automotive environment. This a 3 day, 45 minute/day webinar: **broken link removed**
It's by Littlefuse, but I hope there is enough general info to make it worth attending.
We do have, automotive qualified and space qualified devices. It seems that medically qualified is yet another hurdle.
it's not like a water heater warranty, where price determines the warranty. I heard that in a lot of cases the water heaters are made on the same assembly line. Just the warranty for 5 yr, 10 yr and 15 yr's cost more.
For the space, military and automotive qualifications, more individual testing is done on each device and through design, the