Quality and Reliability Laboratory
About QRL
Quality and Reliability Laboratory (QRL) mainly offers highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) for test services. Our HALT & HASS testing lab provides services to help shorten new product development time, decrease warranty costs and significantly improve product reliability. This is accomplished through stepped temperature & vibration tests to establish product limits and then with rapid thermal cycling and vibration. We work collaboratively with our customers to provide assistance for their HALT and HASS test project. Through careful implementation of each test protocol and industry-leading reporting, our team provides the data necessary to accurately identify design weaknesses or other points of failure.
Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) – an effective tool using cold temperature, hot temperature, thermal transitions, and random vibration to expose latent defects and weak links during a product’s design phase. By eliminating failure mechanisms found during the HALT process, product reliability is improved in a short period of time. Using high levels of stress, in just a few days HALT exposes the same failure modes that are likely to occur under normal stress conditions over an extended period of time.
Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) / Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) – a screening process utilizing rapid thermal transitions and random vibration to expose process variations in manufacturing. HASS is used to monitor outgoing quality and improve product reliability.
For other test service inquires, please contact the Director of CCMSA.
QRL Resources
Qualmark HawQ Chamber
HawQ is a Portable Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) System. This chamber features an introductory level rapid testing system combined with environment accelerated testing. It offers rapid thermal changes from +200° C to -100° C with six degree of freedom repetitive shock vibration. Download HawQ spec sheet here.
Test Chamber Specification
| WORK SPACE | 19.0”w x 16.0”d x 10.5”h |
| OUTER DIMENSIONS | 32.7”w x 43.8”d x 56.1”h |
| TEMPERATURE RANGE | +200 °C to -100 °C |
| TABLE SIZE | 16.0”w x 12.0”d |
| ACCELERATION | 4 – 40 gRMS |
| TABLE CAPACITY | 50 lb (23 kg) |
| POWER REQUIREMENTS | 208VAC / 40A / 1 50/60Hz, 240VAC / 40A / 1 50/60Hz, 208VAC / 30A / 3 50/60Hz, 400VAC / 20A / 3 50/60Hz |
| ACTUATORS | 2 Lubricant-free Actuators |
| IR REQUIREMENTS | 20 scfm at 80 psi |
| THERMAL RAMP RATE | Heating: 35°C or 95°F /min average |
Hirox RH-2000 3D Digital Microscope
Hirox’s CMOS camera to capture up to 50 fps with the continuous high-quality resolution of 1920x1200 pixel. This provides a great on-screen performance and live image operation is as smooth as the naked eye and frame rate can be increased up to 100 fps in the Binning mode. Download the spec sheet here.
Digital Microscope Specification
Camera | Image sensor | 1/1.9-inch, 2.38 Mega-pixel CMOS Sensor |
|---|---|---|
Scanning Mode | Progressive Scan | |
Total Pixels | 1952 (H) x 1241 (V) | |
Effective Pixels | 1945 (H) x 1225 (V) | |
Visual Pixels | 1920 (H) x 1200 (V) | |
Frame Rate | 50 Frame/sec. at 1920 x 1200 Pixel Resolution | |
Electronic Shutter | AUTO (1/24 ~1/100000) | |
Supercharge Shutter | Preference Setup (17 ~ 1/100000) | |
Gain | Auto / Manual (0dB ~ 12dB) | |
White balance | Auto (One Push), Manual (R, B) | |
Camera Cable Length | 2 Meter (Option: up to 10 meter extensio |
| Ligth Source | Lamp | High Intensity LED |
|---|---|---|
| Lamp Life | 30,000 hours (Average) | |
| Color Temperature | 5700K (Typical) | |
| Output | Camera | USB 3.0 Series B |
| MyCom Contoller | ACS, Rotary, External Devices, Others USB 2.0 Series B | |
| Pixel Pitch | 0.01" (H) x 0.01" (V) - 0.248 (H) x 0.248 (V) mm | |
| Input | Motorized Z-Axis | 5 Phase Step Motor Driver Integrated |
| External | Foot Switch (Capture / Capture Image) | |
| USB Ports | USB 2.0 Series A / 2Types | |
| Interface | Through PC | LAN, USB 3.0 / 2.0, HDMI, Others |