[1] Manufacturing and research and development organizations in the electronics, computer, medical, and military industries use HALT to improve product reliability.
By finding weaknesses and making changes early, HALT can lower product development costs and compress time to market.
Highly accelerated life testing (HALT) techniques are important in uncovering many of the weak links of a new product.
As stress-induced failures occur, the cause should be determined, and if possible, the problem should be repaired so that the test can continue to find other weaknesses.
The HALT chamber should be capable of applying random vibration energy from 2 to 10,000 Hz in 6 degrees of freedom and temperatures from -100 to +200°C.
Failures to individual components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, printed circuit boards occur because of these issues.
By catching failures early, flaws are found earlier in the acceptance process, eliminating repetitive later-stage reviews.