Peek Inside the Microsoft Lab Where Devices Go Through Hell
Microsoft makes some smashing devices — the Surface Laptop, Surface Pro, and Surface Book being some of the prime examples of Microsoft'south hardware; and where there's hardware, there's hardware testing. Microsoft recently published a blog post showing off its testing centre, where the visitor tests its hardware in what can only be chosen a serial of torture tests that last anywhere from a couple of weeks to some months.
So what happens at the Microsoft Testing Lab located at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington? Here's a deep swoop into Microsoft's confidential building where (and I quote) "bad things happen to practiced devices."
Microsoft's reliability lab consists of multiple chambers, where engineers and technicians put the visitor'southward hardware through a series of tests that are meant to check their endurance over time to everyday usage. The hardware is stressed to an extent that within a few weeks, the facility is able to test the hardware for "3 years of life."
For instance, Surface Studios are put through testing for multiple things, including a exam for immovability under high temperatures. The machine is put into a chamber heated to 131 degrees Fahrenheit (that's 55 degrees Celsius), along with relative humidity fix to 85%. The poor machine has to endure this for hours at a time, afterward which engineers check it out for even the slightest of issues — bulging screens, hinges, difficult disks and everything else.
Co-ordinate to Krishna Darbha, Microsoft's Senior Director of Devices' Reliability, the tests' measurements are precise to a fault. "It's in microns," he says. A alter that's not even visible to the naked heart.
In other chambers in the aforementioned building, Surface Pros go through corrosion tests. They're put into a 'salt-fog machine', to emulate conditions aboard a send in the Pacific Ocean, and are then checked for corrosion in every nook and cranny — reliable devices, after all, are what the company tries to put out, and what makes them 1 of the most widely used tools for researchers.
The engineers also test devices for exposure to sunlight. To do this in a affair of weeks, they put the devices into a UV light chamber, where the devices are bathed in white light from Xenon bulbs.
Jonathan Lehl, a test engineer says, "We're taking sunlight and concentrating information technology, making it more than intense to shrink downwards the time for your material to see that cumulative exposure." The chambers are unsafe to enter into, so the team locks the doors. Co-ordinate to Lehl, if someone was to enter the room while the examination was going on they'd get a sunburn within a infinitesimal.
The company even buys dust, specifically for testing devices' durability over time to grit exposure in both homes and offices. The team checks devices for how the fans piece of work when there'southward dust inside the laptop, clogging up the motherboard, and whether or not the device can still be cooled past the fans once the dust has inevitably settled inside.
The company's engineers and technicians work everyday, putting devices they've helped create, through a series of torturous tests to ensure that they're 'human being proof' for being put into the market. Their philosophy, and rightly then, is that "the organisation is only as strong as its weakest link," and that'south what they ready out to notice, every day.
Source: https://beebom.com/peek-inside-microsoft-lab-where-devices-go-through-hell/
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