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Quality Testing Service (QTS), formally QualMark's Huntington Beach Test Center, is now the premier HALT/HASS lab in Southern California.

The HALT and HASS techniques performed at QTS, get mature product to market much sooner, which translates into greater revenues and a major competitive advantage

By subjecting products to stresses exceeding those found in the field or performed on traditional test equipment, QTS can essentially accelerate time, saving weeks and months normally spent testing product in real-time. Our team of experienced test personnel assists customers in conducting the best possible test.


 

QTS Services available:

  • HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test)
    • HALT training/execution
    • HALT Fixturing
  • HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screen)
    • HASS Development
    • HASS Proof of Screen
    • Advanced HASS Fixtures
  • HASA (Highly Accelerated Stress Audit)
  • Customer Directed Testing
  • Chamber Operations/Calibration
  • Process Validation
  • On-site Consulting
  • Program Management

 

 

Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)

HALT is a design verification tool for testing electronic and electro-mechanical products. HALT employs thermal and vibration stresses that quickly uncover design flaws and precipitates latent defects that might otherwise be exhibited as field failures and warranty problems.

A product under test is powered-up and monitored throughout the testing process. A determination of the root cause of any failures found is made during testing (if possible). Repairs are performed “on the fly” and testing continues to widen the operating margins of the product until the fundamental limit of the technology is reached.

HALT pushes a product to its true operating limits and beyond. Whereas traditional methods simulate field environments and test products within their specifications, HALT stimulates products beyond their specifications, significantly compressing the time needed for testing. HALT testing usually takes 3-5 days compared with weeks or months for traditional reliability assessments. HALT, therefore, is a very significant and cost effective process in bringing the highest quality product to market in the shortest period of time.

 

 

HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screen)

Our qualified engineers can help develop a custom production screen that identifies process and vendor defects. Defects that can compromise product reliability.

The goal in HASS is to develop a screen that will verify that the production process or purchasing substitutions do not impact the reliability gained through the HALT process.

HASS is intended to be a final screen in the manufacturing process. It detects defects that traditional inspection and testing will not. HASS causes latent failures to become actual failures without removing a significant amount of the product’s life.

By its definition, all products produced are run through the HASS. Those that fail have RCCA performed while the good units are shipped. This process eliminated defects from reaching the customer. As a result, DOA are non-existent, early warranty failures disappear and products work even beyond their warranty period leaving the customer delighted and the bottom line increased due to the reduced overhead of field support.

HASS consists of HASS development and Proof of Screen.

 

HASA (Highly Accelerated Stress Audit)


Same as a HASS but instead of testing all products coming off the manufacturing line you now run only a sample. Generally this is done once you have all issues resolved in HASS.

 

Customer Defined Test Services


This testing may not strictly follow the HALT and HASS services offered by QTS; instead, it takes a more traditional and selective approach to environmental testing. Customers define and direct the testing process, using the temperature and/or vibration stresses available in a HALT chamber. These stresses include 6 degree of freedom vibration to 60 Grms and Thermal conditions from -100 degrees C to 200 degrees C. We can achieve a thermal ramp rate of 60 degrees C on the product, not just the surrounding air.

Types of customer defined testing available:

  • Production Screening
  • Vibration or Thermal Only Testing
  • Thermal Cycling

 

 

On-site Services

If the customer cannot come to QTS we can come to the customer site. Our testing experts will provide specialized HALT/HASS testing and training on customer equipment at their site. We will provide this training on any QualMark as well as on any non-QualMark test equipment.

 

Consulting Services


Our staff of experienced engineers will work with customers to conduct the type of tests needed. QTS can help maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of existing protocols and procedures, whatever the customer goals may be. We also offer free educational seminars on HALT and HASS at your site or ours. 

 


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Eric Gerlach

15661 Producer Ln., Unit H

Huntington Beach,CA 92649

714-903-1155