What are the best practices for maintaining electronic devices after manufacturing?

Implement Preventive Maintenance Schedules: Establishing preventive maintenance schedules is crucial for ensuring the longevity of electronic devices. This involves conducting routine inspections, cleaning, and calibration procedures based on predefined timelines or usage thresholds. By addressing potential issues before they escalate, preventive maintenance helps minimise downtime, extend the lifespan of components, and reduce the overall cost of ownership.

1 ) Keep Your Electronics devices Clean. Our electronic devices frequently become covered in dust, dirt, and grime. 2 ) Avoid High Temperature. 3 ) Use Surge Protectors. 4 ) Update Your Software Regularly. 5 ) Handle Your Device with Care.

The first step is good design or purchasing, all of the maintenance in the world won’t help a device that’s poorly engineered or not fit for purpose. Look for designs that are more efficient and better suited to your needs. Devices that run cooler generally last longer and don’t need as much maintenance. Devices without fans and airflow for cooling won’t need to be cleaned or maintained for this reason. Avoid devices that need a cloud connection to work properly as many of these may be subject to failure if the supplier closes their servers or goes out of business. If it’s something that you use a lot, try to keep communication with the manufacturer so that you can keep your devices up to date and find out about any known problems. Cha

- When possible, optimize software to maintain peak performance with as little power as possible. This will help reduce excess heat and allow your hardware to last longer. - Keep your space clean, both during production and deployment. Air filters are very useful for enclosed spaces. Dust can short or block circuits, increase temperatures, and accelerate degradation. - Perform consistent maintenance. Ensure necessary repairs are made as soon as you notice them.

Need proactive maintenance and operation within the device's working limit in power, operating hours, and rest time. However, falling in abrupt heavy pressure or drop is also a concerning issue.

In addition to the above mentioned factors , ESD susceptibility is something that plays a humungous role during storage and transport. The devices should be kept in ESD safe covers and while taking the devices out, wrist-straps must be used by the handling personnel.

- I know the article was generalized but this is something I think should be mentioned; many electronic devices now are shrinking in size and that makes them more susceptible to Electrostatic Discharge, and during transportation standard packaging could potentially build up such a charge which can cause a damaging high voltage discharge that will brick the device. An IC chip, for example. To fend against this, devices should be packaged with both a shield and a static dissipative layer. Typically when receiving electronic parts from a supplier, I get it in two materials at once, a shielded bag and some polyethylene bubble wrap. I’d say this is not only best practice but standard practice for the industry.

Testing and thorough preventive maintenance is recommended to keep your devices running in peak operation. It also gives you the opportunity to solve any issues that may arise.

One of the benefits of updating and upgrading is that it helps unlock more features that will not be compatible or accessible prior to the upgrade. Although, to do this update and upgrade there are manufacturer guides and steps to complete them successfully without damaging or corrupting the component or device.

Read the user manuals, learn the operating limits, know at all times at what operating point you are setting the device. Normal operation always degrades the components, but operation outside of these limits will degrade them further.