Effective Testing Strategies Balance Quality with Costs
Test Engineering
Test and evaluation is one of the most challenging services we offer our customers. Testing incorporates every discipline of engineering including: hardware, software, packaging, and integration. Our seasoned test development team consistently delivers product and market appropriate test plans, strategies, and services that ensure your product will perform in the field defect-free.
Production test-sets are developed in parallel with products. Testing bridges the gap between inspection and process control by ensuring product will operate under all conditions. Test is an essential aspect of ensuring product integrity and spans the entire product life cycle.
We protect you by testing early and often.
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Testing Services: Qualification
- Verification
- Validation
- Certification Production Board Level Test End-of-line Functional Test
Design Services
Products
Testing
Description
Usage
Design
Production
Board Level
Assembly
In-Circuit Testing
Sometimes Called "Bed-of-Nails Testing", requires custom fixture, tests components and "shorts & opens" after placement on a printed circuit board.
Flying Probe Testing
Tests components and "shorts & opens" after placement on a printed circuit board.
AOI Testing
Automated Optical Inspection. Optically inspects printed circuit boards for proper placement of components.
X-Ray Testing
X-Rays Ball Grid Array components for proper solder joints after placement.
Functional Testing
Custom assembly specific test fixtures, used to confirm assembly functionality.
End-of-Line Testing
Functional testing. Custom assembly specific test fixtures, used to confirm assembly functionality.
Validation
Qualification testing that confirms production functionality
Verification
Qualification testing that confirms the product meets the product specification.
HASS Testing
Highly Accelerated Stress Screening
HALT Testing
Highly Accelerated Life Testing
Leak Seal Testing
Pressure and Vacuum tests assembly housings.
Hi-Pot Testing
Tests voltage protection and nonconductivity.
Thermal Soak
Heating assemblies to a specific temperature, usally the high end of the product specification, for a set time period and then performing a functional test at that temperature.
Thermal Cycling
Cycling an assembly through the full range of the product's temperature specifications at a set speed for a specified time and functionally testing the assembly at specific intervals.
Burn in
Term is often misused. The practice of powering-up an assembly and running the product for a set time period to identify infant mortality failures. Burn-in is often used to decribe a thermal soak.
Conductivity Testing
Cable testing used to check the integrity of individual wires within a cable subassembly.