Manufacturers have been struggling for years with the necessity to produce high quality products that do not fail once they have been delivered to the customer. Auditing for stated reliability expectations can create a good product – but exceeding these standards will create a superior product. HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test), HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screen), and HASA (Highly Accelerated Stress Audit) are intensive methods used by the world’s top manufacturers to expose products to extreme environmental conditions, improve design and process weaknesses, and improve product quality – all before the product is introduced to the market. HALT, HASS & HASA Explained was written to aid organizations in this quest to implement these methods and produce highly reliable products without getting bogged-down in equations.
Written by a renowned teacher and practitioner of these techniques, this resource book is all that is required to implement a successful accelerated reliability program for your organization. Use it to help your company dramatically reduce failure rates in the field, assure a mature product at introduction, add to profitability, and greatly increase customer satisfaction.
HALT, HASS & HASA Explained is the perfect resource for developing an accelerated reliability program for your company. With an actual example of a company that transitioned from a traditional reliability program to a HALT and HASA program, the author guides you through instituting and equipping the proper accelerated reliability program for your company’s products to selling these concepts to top management.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 : The Importance of High Reliability Products at Market Introduction-How & Why to do a Halt
Chapter 2 : Highly Accelerated Stress Screen-Hass
Chapter 3 : Beyond The Paradigm of Environmental Stress Screening Using Hasa
Chapter 4 : Refinements on Highly Accelerated Stress Audit (HASA)
Chapter 5 : The Equipment Required to Perform Efficient Accelerated Reliability Testing
Chapter 6 : How to Sell New Concepts to Management
Chapter 7 : Some Commonly Asked Questions and Observations?
Appendix A : The Derivation of Equations 3.1
Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
References
Additional References
Trademarks and Service Marks
About the Author
Index
