What is the purpose of an ESS program in manufacturing?

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Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) is used to reveal latent defects by exposing finished units to environmental stresses before shipment. By subjecting products to conditions like temperature cycling and vibration, hidden issues that don’t show up under normal use are more likely to become apparent. Detecting and fixing these defects in production reduces field failures and improves reliability for customers. The other options describe different goals (software reliability, energy efficiency, or packaging evaluation) that do not focus on uncovering hidden manufacturing defects through environmental stress.