Reliability Services
Product reliability is a fantastic goal, if you achieve greatness here you are on your way to a sustainable future. Whether you choose HALT to improve your product by increasing robustness, ALT to quantify or RDT to demonstrate product life we have the ability and desire to help. If you’d like to qualify your product will work in its intended end-use environment then we can help with recommending & performing environmental test standards that will see you get the results you are looking for.
Thermal shock testing is conducted to determine the products ability to function either in it’s intended use, or in extreme environments. These tests are performed to determine the products ability to survive constant or fast rate temperature cycling. We conduct thermal shock testing in New Zealand for a range... More »
Water Ingress Testing is conducted to ensure the product is able to operate safely in it’s intended end-use. Depending on the intended use the test may involve dripping, spraying, or submerging the product under water. Depending on the water ingress code one of the following tests may be conducted. For further information... More »
Dust Ingress Testing exposes your product to airbourne circulating dust over time. These tests are performed to determine the products ability to withstand exposure to dust in their end-use environment. Depending on the dust code either of the following tests may be conducted. Dust Ingress Testing :: IP5X... More »
Vibration testing is conducted to assess the products resilience to forces it’s likely to encounter in either the transport environment, or in it’s end-use. We have experience designing, running and analysing vibration tests and can help make sure your product is rugged, before release. Whether you’re looking for... More »
We’re available to help you plan, setup, and run Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) on your products. We get involved early in the concept and design process to ensure adequate testability is designed into the product, prior to HALT being conducted. We’ll provide a comprehensive test report, including... More »
Our experts are available to help you plan, setup, and run Highly Accelerated Stress Screening on your products. We understand that HASS is typically a big step for an organization and adapt our HASS plans to suit both the newcomer and experienced HASS user. We operate a Qualmark Typhoon... More »
Before jumping in at the deep end it pays to take an holistic view of your product life-cycle. What exactly are your goals for this product, architecture or system? Reliability Test Planning, and reliability planning in general are conducted to formalise design, production, and field reliability requirements to... More »
MTBF Predictions, or MTTF Predictions are conducted to determine the probability of survival and failure rate of your product during early development. MTBF is the abbreviated term for Mean Time Between Failures. It is the average time (in hours) expected between failures of a repairable component. MTTF on the... More »
Shock testing is conducted to accurately measure the fragility of products and to evaluate protective packaging; the data attained during these tests is the key to understanding whether your product is capable of with standing its “real world” environment. We use a Lansmont Model 23 shock tester in our... More »
Tumble testing exposes your product to repetitive random free-fall drops in a controlled repeatable manner. These tests are performed to determine the products ability to survive the many bumps and scrapes it will experience in it’s life with an end-user. The height of the tumble tester drum sets... More »
Handheld and mobile products including smart phones, mobile phones, radios, remotes and other gadgets are becoming increasingly complex yet are being subjected to more abuse than they have ever before. Drop testing is used to assess the fragility of these products by subjecting them to repeatable impacts similar to... More »
Quantify your product’s life characteristics using Accelerated Life Testing. When we conduct ALT we’re quantifying the effect of stress(es) on product life, by realising this effect we can then determine the products life characteristics under different field conditions. Acceleration Models There are a wide range of accelerated life... More »
With Life Data Analysis we’re able to crunch your returns data and provide information that will help you determine failure modes that require your urgent attention along with those that you can expect to continue at low occurrence, and cost. Life Data Analysis provides a means to gauge... More »
There are times when it’s not possible to test to failure under accelerated test conditions, instead it might be that testing to almost failure is enough, Reliability Degradation Analysis (DA) gives us the possibility to measure and quantify key life parameters. Degradation analysis can be directly related to... More »
Reliability Demonstration testing (RDT) is an efficient way to test whether the product will attain a specified reliability for a given life. This life is typically the products required useful life, it’s MTBF, or even warranty length. Reliability Demonstration Tests can utilize HALT & ALT data to provide... More »
Temperature and humidity testing is conducted to determine the products ability to function either in it’s intended use, or in extreme environments. These tests are performed to determine the products ability to survive cold and hot temperature extremes coupled with extreme humidity. Testing can either be performed using... More »
Salt spray testing is conducted to determine the products resistance to corrosion, it is often conducted at the product level to provide quick feedback to the development team on coatings, enclosures and connectors. Sometimes referred to as salt fog, or corrosive atmosphere testing salt spray testing encompasses a... More »
We operate two QUV UV testers here in New Zealand, both capable of performing combined UV and condensation cycles with three different bulb types and the QUV/Spray can also conduct cold water spray to product thermal shock on the products under test. UVA340 simulates outdoor light well and has... More »
Our paint testing equipment is designed to thrash your paint using accelerated weathering techniques before you release it to market. We employ a combination UV, temperature and condensing humidity to accelerate failure modes thereby providing sound benchmarking information for use in either new product development, or quality control.... More »
Package testing is an essential requirement for any product being shipped either domestically, or internationally. The hazards a packaged product is exposed to during transport are well documented, and there are numerous international test standards that provide options for testing. At our lab in Christchurch we have Electrodynamic... More »