ABSTRACT
In situations with long product lead times, manufacturers prefer reducing the test times of products by testing them under, say, abnormally high temperatures, which may lead to quicker product failures and, in turn, shorter product lead times. This is called accelerated life testing, and is especially useful when the relationship between the test temperature and product failure time is known. A relationship that is commonly used in the plastic and semiconductor industries is the Arrhenius relationship. The concepts of physics and chemistry, which are needed to understand the Arrhenius relationship, are beyond the scope of this book. Readers interested in those concepts and the respective mathematical formulas are encouraged to review the book listed in the Bibliography.
