ACCELERATED RELIABILITY TRAINING

The famous How-To Seminars on Accelerated Reliability that teachers, engineers, and managers have been speaking about.

Hobbs Engineering was established in 1978 by Dr. Gregg K. Hobbs, who held 14 patents for various inventions that test the durability of product design. Over the past 30 years, he gathered a select group of specialists in the various aspects of Accelerated Reliability, who provide training seminars for companies as varied as Boeing, Johnson & Johnson, Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, John Deere, Airbus, Otis Elevator, Cadillac, and all branches of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Dr. Hobbs invented enhanced HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Tests) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screens). These techniques use severe conditions (including vibration, freezing and extreme heating) to test for weaknesses in design. The breakdowns and parts failures that will occur after several years in average conditions, happen in a matter of minutes or even seconds using HALT and HASS, so designers and manufacturers can find problems and fix them quickly.

What's the difference between HALT and HASS?

HALT are run during the design phase of a program to find design weaknesses and eliminate them. Any stress that exposes design weaknesses that would show up in the normal environments is suitable even if these stresses do not occur in the normal environments to which the product will be exposed. This is due to the crossover effect.

HASS are run during production in order to find process problems such as poor solder joints. Again, time compression techniques and the cross over effect are employed to speed the process and to reduce costs. Tests called Safety of Screen are run to prove that the HASS profiles leave enough life in the product.

WEBINARS

These Accelerated Reliability Webinars are taught live by our highly knowledgeable instructors.

Hobbs Engineering is pleased to be now offering webinars in addition to our regular seminars. You can contact us to get a link to past webinars that have been recorded or watch this website for future ones. The cost of these webinars very, please contact Hobbs Engineering for specific pricing. 

We also present corporate webinars for only $2,000 with no limit to the number of attendees. This allows the opportunity to discuss key issues with the instructor in confidence. You can also select the date and time. 

Contact us if you would like to participate in these webinars.

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