Halt Hass Testing
Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)
HALT is a process used during the product’s design phase that provides environments which force design issues to manifest. This type of testing bring out the weakest areas in a design and give an indication if the components used in the product are suitable for their desired purpose. The HALT is used to establish the absolute working limits of the product under test
Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)
HASS is a process that can be used through out the manufacturing life cycle of a product which determines if process changes or component changes have any detrimental effect on the working and reliability of the product. The HASS process uses the working limits that were established during HALT
Benefits
Evaluate & Improve Design Margins
Quickly Discover Design & Process Limitations
Rapid Design & Process Maturation
Greatly Increased Product Reliability (MTBF)
Reduced Total Development Time & Cost
Reduced Production & Warranty Cost
Sustaining Engineering Tool to Assess changes in Product & Process.
Finding design weaknesses as early in the product design cycle as possible, can add substantially to the bottom line as can be seen in the example below
€50 At design phase
€200 Before procurement
€400 Before production
€20,000 Before shipment
€700,000 At customer site
Some of the sectors using the HALT & HASS service:
Communication, Medical, Industrial, Consumer, Scientific and Information Technology
