RELIABILITY ENGINEERING PROGRAM NTS offers a Reliability Engineering Program as part of its Engineering Services which focuses on design for reliability, “One Life” reliability and HALT testing, fault analysis, identification and corrective action. NTS has consulted clients in industries including aerospace, military, medical device, consumer products, manufacturing, oil production and others. No matter what step in the lifecycle the product is in, NTS has a reliability solution to improve product performance. ONE-LIFE TESTING One-Life testing relies on producing a use life profile. Once the profile is identified (which includes thermal, dynamic, vibration and other stress producing environments), our reliability group will develop an “accelerated profile”. This addresses all of the damage elements of “One-Life”, while reducing the test time to substantially smaller intervals and determine the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) or Mean Time To Failure (MTTF). HALT TESTING The practice of accelerated aging or HALT testing allows product designs and manufacturing technologies to be validated for both robustness of design concurrent with the integrity of the parts, circuits, boards, enclosures and manufacturing. HALT TESTING CONTINUED Warranty durations can be determined through accelerated life testing. NTS is also well versed in classical HALT testing and has capabilities to develop classical HALT test procedures. NTS has several HALT chambers throughout the country. FAULT ANALYSIS Fault analysis and identification is completed using Fault Tree methodology and root cause analysis with the application of testing and proof of concept. Corrective action recommendations can be made for reliability improvement and additional testing can be completed to ensure reliability issues have been mitigated. RELIABILITY FORENSIC SERVICES NTS has also been a valuable partner to its customers in providing reliability forensic services in areas associated with product liability science, and associated expert witness requirements. Our reliability engineering is a full product life cycle service, spanning across designs in reliability assurance at the front end of a product development From a forensic determination of product flaws and their corrective actions. NTS provides this level of competent engineering coupled to a 50 year heritage of expert testing, all in one package. HALT testing High reliability Designing and improving reliability www.nts.com | 800.270.2516 NTS SERVICE SPOTLIGHT RELIABILITY ENGINEERING