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Why Design Defects Are Behind Many Quality/Safety Issues

July 15, 2019

Why Design Defects Are Behind Many Quality/Safety Issues

There is a tendency for inexperienced importers to blame their suppliers for all quality and safety issues that come up. However, in the situation where the buyer works with an OEM or a contract manufacturer, they share some (and usually all) of the responsibility when something goes wrong. It may well be that manufacturing or design defects are the cause. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Supplier Management Tagged With: contract manufacturer, contract manufacturers, design defects, HALT, HASS, manufacturing defects, OEM, process control

How HALT and HASS Can Help your Product Development Efforts

November 3, 2015

Typical HALT process

HALT and HASS are accelerated product reliability testing methods focused on finding potential defects in products. These acronyms stand for: HALT – Highly Accelerated Life Test HASS – Highly Accelerated Stress Screen If you are developing a new product ready for manufacturing and you want to know if it will keep working as planned after a few years of use, you can send a few samples to a testing laboratory and ask them to perform HALT and/or HASS. These types of tests are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Quality Control Tips Tagged With: defects, HALT, HASS, product testing, reliability testing


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