ENVIRONMENTAL QUALIFICATION - FACILITIES AND CASE STUDIES

The term environmental qualification is used for assurance or guarantee for satisfactory performance of hardware under specified environmental conditions including normal, abnormal and accident conditions. To generate confidence about satisfactory performance in reasonable time, hardware must be tested under accelerated conditions. For testing and measuring performance parameters, it is essential to have adequate facilities and experienced & inquisitive staff so that qualified and reliable hardware can be manufactured by active participation of manufacturers, users and researchers. Top priority is given to the determination of characteristics, capabilities and limitations of hardware before really starting accelerated testing so that maximum information can be extracted before failure of hardware.