Automotive

Qualmark technology has never been more strategically applicable in the automotive industry than in today’s turbulent environment to produce a more reliable product with less budget in a shorter amount of time. The automotive design effort is compounded by consumer demand for more complex features – GPS, entertainment systems, parking assistants – and OEM reliability expectations for critical operation and safety features.

According to Automotive News, electronics will compromise up to 40% of a car’s cost by 2010. Yet, in 2008 ADAC (Germany and Europe’s largest automobile club) determined that the primary cause of automotive breakdown (40%) was directly due to electronics. In an expanding market where competitors enjoy little advantage in reliability, any technology that can help bring more mature and reliable products to market faster for less cost should be given serious consideration. Qualmark technology is specifically engineered to fortify design and sustain manufacture integrity of electronic and electromechanical components.

Accelerate Time to Market with Qualmark

Automotive suppliers can gain both time-to-market and reliability competitive advantages utilizing Qualmark’s HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screen) technology. Qualmark’s systems are designed to expose electronics to rugged stress extremes far beyond what is anticipated in normal use so that ultimate destruct limits are revealed – in hours or days, but certainly not the weeks or months required by traditional tests. Engineers are able to utilize the resulting data and adjust product specifications to deliver a more robust design with extended stress tolerances – fast.

Verify Quality Process with Qualmark

Qualmark’s technology is also used to verify quality in manufacturing - and is especially critical where the process is performed off-site .