RELIABILITY SUPPORT
Aurasound Reliability
The most important issues regarding a product launch is to ensure that product reliability is already designed in to the product to guard against excessive warranty costs over the product life span, and to maintain a brand image of utmost quality. Aurasound knows this process and has the resources and tools necessary to provide the customer a trouble-free product - on the assembly line, and more importantly – for their end user experience.
One of the most tragic experiences a company can endure with one of their products is on-going reliability issues and re-calls.
Therefore as a pro-active measure in the design process, our team will assist your team in creating a custom-designed reliability plan at the early stages of development (Alpha Stage). This will ensure the product has designed-in reliability. One can have an extensive manufacturing line quality system, but our approach is to design in the quality, not inspect in the quality. Over the long term, product life cycle costs and reputation can be saved using this approach.
In the very early design phases our team and your team will go into detailed review as to the application of the product, and worst-case scenarios so we build in the necessary preventative design approaches. While experience in the design is important, validating those design approaches before extensive capital costs are invested are our pro-active ways to make a reliable, trouble-free product.
Our engineering and Quality assurance teams will work closely with the customer to document a reliability test protocol. The team will determine the warranty terms for the product, and completely review the end user applications for the product.
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Our extensive investment in reliability test equipment and facilities is a testament to this process. Our teams and equipment will allow the customer and Aurasound to have at their disposal some of the most advanced resources in the industry. Because the resources are property of Aurasound, this enables custom tests to be performed, and if necessary modified and repeated to achieve the most acceptable results.
Magnetic / Gauss Testing. Capabile of Hysteresis recording of speaker flux
Salt / Fog Testing - Standard 5% testing, or accelerated 20% testing
Sway Test: Capable of moving product to test electronic connections
Power Testing: Use standard IEC tests or the customer may create a WAV file or CD to run power test
InStrom / Dull Testing: Test equipment capable of pulling apart parts of connections in a controlled manner
Vibration Testing: Both sweep sine vibration, or Transit motion vibration testing
Drop Testing: Both in and out of box
Controlled listening rooms for acoustic listening evaluations
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At Aurasound we also have a team to help you with your regulatory testing to obtain Underwriters Laboratories and CE compliance. We can also help with FCC / EN61000 certifications to speed your product to the international marketplace.
Near our factory in the Guangzhou area we can work on your behalf with UL, and EU recognized laboratories to reach this important milestone in getting your quality product to market.
With your team and our team working closely together in the design phase of the project, we can design in the quality and reliability before costly mistakes are found in the production cycle. This saves design time, capital costs, and protects your brand recognition once the product is released to the market place.
Why not start your zero defects policy and reduce your warranty exposure now before production. We at Aurasound have the tools and experience to help you do this very important function.
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