MC2 HALT Chamber.

The Halt Chamber is our newest piece of test equipment located in the back of the production area. HALT stands for Highly Accelerated Life Testing and it is a design verification tool for testing electronic and electromechanical devices. HALT employs extreme thermal rate changes 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 undergoing HALT is powered-up, monitored and diagnosed throughout the testing process. A determination of the root cause of any failures is made during testing, if possible. Many of these failures are repaired "on-the-fly" and the HALT continues to widen the operating margins of the product until the destruct limit of the technology is reached.

HALT pushes a product to its true operating limits and beyond. Whereas traditional testing methods simulate field environments and test products, within their specifications, HALT stimulates products beyond their specifications, significantly compressing the time needed for testing. HALT usually takes between 3-5 days to complete versus weeks or even months with traditional testing methods.

Benefits of The Halt Chamber:

Reduces product development and R&D costs.
Increases product quality and reliability.
Reduces time to market.
Helps find and allows correction of defects before product release.
Lowers field failures, in-warranty problems and associated costs.