HALT & HASS Training Course + Workshop

• Return on investment of 50:1 in the first year!
• Dramatically increased field reliability, 838 times improvement in one case!
• Greatly reduced warranty and field retrofitting costs!

About this course.

Unlike many equipment manufacturers' seminars that simply expound success stories and testimonials, this HALT and HASS training course actually teaches the latest techniques. We begin with the science behind it, provide the hard engineering, and explain why the failures accelerated through higher stress levels are essential to developing reliable products. The course offers step-by-step instruction on why, how, and when to perform HALT (environmental and other stress stimulation methods applied in the design phase), how to correctly set-up and tune HASS profiles on production units, and how to prove that the HASS profiles leave enough life left, so the products can be confidently sold to customers. Learn how to vastly improve design margins and eliminate process problems using the highly accelerated techniques taught by their originator.
The latest techniques are taught and published only in this seminar.

Course Content

This seminar will cover the latest methods for finding weak links in designs and processes that cause field failures in products.
Emphasis is placed on environmental and electrical stimulation applied in the design phase (HALT) in order to force accelerated design and process maturity. This technique allows earlier (mature) product introduction and obtains robust design margins. Emphasis is also given to the use of the methods in the production phase (HASS) to assure process and design control. Either application results in cost savings and reliability improvements that are orders of magnitude better than those attained using the traditional approaches.
Many leaders in reliability throughout the world are using the methods.
Every aspect of the HALT & HASS processes is covered, including step stress testing, burn-in, voltage cycling, vibration, thermal cycling, other stresses as appropriate and cumulative fatigue damage as well as screens for parts, assemblies and systems. Physics of failure, test coverage and resolution, equipment required and management issues will also be discussed. The extreme non-linearities found in vibration of electronics and fixturing for both vibration and thermal cycling are covered. Several case studies are discussed and critiqued in class

In the advanced hands-on workshop, participants learn techniques and methods that allow them to further refine and improve their existing methodologies. Upon completion, participants should be able to use these techniques without any additional assistance. Many of the subtle details required for successful use of the techniques are presented in this seminar and are not published elsewhere.
During the workshop, a HyperHALT™ is performed by the attendees on a commercial electronic product using six axis vibration and high rate temperature cycling equipment. This session is hands-on with participant involvement in running of the tests and in the operation of the equipment used for stressing.

Who should attend

HALT & HASS + Workshop is appropriate for managers, executive officers, design engineers, quality & reliability engineers, and production staff involved in Highly Accelerated Stress Screening including failure analysis. HyperHALT™, as demonstrated in the workshop, is appropriate for any staff involved in actually performing or evaluating the HALT & HASS activities.
Some high level managers will want to attend only the first few hours which is a Management Overview.

Benefits of Attending

• Participants have reported substantial benefits:
• Return on investment of 50:1 in the first year!
• Dramatically increased field reliability, 838 times improvement in one case!
• Greatly reduced warranty and field retrofitting costs!
• Reduction of product development time!
• Reduced time to market!
• Virtual elimination of field failures!
• One company reported a savings of $30 million in one year!
• Another company reported savings of over $200 million in three years!
• Reduction in REL-DEMO costs by orders of magnitude!
• Substantial savings in manufacturing costs! Almost no scrap and rework!
• Vast reduction in screening and test equipment costs!
• Elimination of "No Defects Found" in field returns!

About the Lecturer

Gregg K. Hobbs, Ph.D. - "THE INVENTOR OF HALT AND HASS"
Gregg, a Registered Professional Engineer in California in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Control System Engineering, is the originator of and world leader in the principles of HALT and HASS. He has been a consulting engineer since 1978, specializing in the fields of stress screening, robust and flaw tolerant design, dynamic analysis, and testing. He has been employed as a consultant by many leading companies in the aerospace, commercial, military, and industrial fields and has taught at two major universities as Adjunct Professor (Visiting Full Professor). He has taught courses on these subjects in the USA, Asia, Canada, Europe, the UK, Africa, the South Pacific, Middle-East and Mexico.
He has introduced, and continues to introduce, many new concepts, techniques, and equipment that have been proven by 36 years extensive use on many products, resulting in the savings of several billions of dollars. He has acted as "facilitator" for companies beginning to use these methods and has led teams that enhanced designs using the techniques, selected equipment, and then developed production screens.
Currently the inventor of 14 patents on accelerated testing equipment (several more pending), Dr. Hobbs has written many important papers on accelerated techniques and has introduced a number of new concepts in various other technical fields. His book, HALT & HASS, Accelerated Reliability Engineering, is now in its second edition and is available from Hobbs Engineering.
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Hobbs has shown thousands of engineers throughout the world how to improve the quality of their products through the application of his HALT and HASS accelerated reliability techniques. RapidHALT™, introduced in 2003, has reduced the time in HALT substantially. Other significant improvements in the HALT and HASS methodologies were made by Dr. Hobbs in 2004. HyperHALT™ was introduced in 2007.

Further Information

• Duration: Two days made up of - One and a half day course plus a half day hands-on Rapid HALT Workshop.
• Assessment: This course is a non-assessed short course.
• Dates + Venues: The next Public presentations are:
  • 20-21 October, 2008 - New York, USA
  • 3-4 November, 2008 - Germany
  • 11-12 November, 2008 - Birmingham, UK
• Price : £680 + VAT (where applicable) per delegate. Fees include course materials, tuition, refreshments and lunches. The price does not include accommodation.
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