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Cascade TEK’s Colorado Testing Lab Now Offering HALT/HASS Testing

Cascade TEK has announced its Colorado Lab now offers HALT/HASS testing. The HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screen) testing methods are an excellent tool to quickly uncover latent weaknesses in a product, by putting products through random vibration combined with very rapid temperature transitions – subjecting the product to increasing amounts of stress and fatigue.

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Independent Labs Provide Value-Added Services

Manufacturers and distributors of electronic and electrical devices are required to meet various Product Safety standards established by the United States, Canada, European Union, and various global agencies. Today manufacturers have multiple options for testing their product to various North American Standards through Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTLs), as well as independent value added laboratories that have approvals for NRTL testing under a variety of programs. Good independent labs must be assessed to ISO 17025 for testing laboratories, similar to those requirements found under ISO 9000 requirements for manufacturers.