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Ops A La Carte Provides Confidence in ReliabilityTM

We just launched our site Reliapedia. This is the most comprehensive source of reliability information in any one place. Over 200 technical articles and presentations as well as over 100 hours of video content, including 25 one hour webinars, our entire CRE and CQE course webinars, and our post popular seminars. This site is perfect for those that want to learn at your own pace. And rolled into this new site is the ability to ask us questions and even sign up for weekly/monthly mentoring if you need a little guidance. And we are committed to continue to update the site. We are working on interactive formulas, a 40-hour seminar series, and more.

Our Annual Reliability Symposium will be held May 6-10 and will feature 8 of our most popular classes. All will be offered via webinar:
Arrow Design for Reliability (DFR) - Learn the building block tools for reliability during the concept and design phase and learn how to integrate with the rest of your reliability program.
ArrowDesign for Six Sigma (DfSS) - Abstract: Powerful problem solving methodology aimed at tackling core product development issues.
Arrow Design for Mechanical Reliability (DfMR) - Learn about FEA, Tolerance/Worst Case Analysis, Probabilistic Design Systems, and Fatigue & Fracture.
Arrow Design for Warranty Cost Reduction (DfW) - Introduces a proven warranty even cost model that helps identify warranty cost reduction solutions and feed back into design process for cost savings.
Arrow Design for Software Reliability (DfS) - Highlights best practices in Software Reliability and explains their application and positive impact to each of
the development life cycle phases: Concept, Design, Implementation, and Testing.
Arrow Design of Experiments (DoE) - Learn the basic statistics behind a DOE as well as go through a hands-on workshop in which we perform a DOE on a specific product.
Arrow Best of Accelerated Reliability Test Methods (BART) - Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), Accelerated Life Testing (ALT), and Reliability Demonstration Testing (RDT) are the best reliability testing techniques. This seminar will explain each and identify when to use which technique.
Arrow Root Cause Analysis (RCA) - Looks at RCA from a system and component level, identifying best tools, 5 Whys approach, 8 Step process, and FRACAS.

Our next Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) Preparation Class starts April16th. This is the 8th year we have been teaching this class and we boast over a 75% pass rate with over 500 students going through our CQE class.

Last month we held our popular webinar "Accelerated Life Testing (Not HALT but ALT)". Slides and webcast can be found on our new Reliapedia site.

On March 13th we will hold our next free webinar entitled FMEA of FMEAs" where we will explore all the pitfalls in conducting an FMEA and give you helpful tips on how to make your next FMEA successful.

Last quarter we visited Chicago, England, Germany, Prague, Orlando, Miami, Denver, San Diego, Anaheim, and LA. This quarter, we will be visiting Dallas, Houston, Cleveland, Boston, and Las Vegas. Whenever OPS visits a city, we offer 1 hour of free consultation to help you with any aspect of your reliability program.

Refer to the EVENTS section for the exact dates. If you are interested in having us stop by when we are in town, please Contact Us Info. We will provide you 1 hour of Free Consultation with no strings attached. We will give you our expert advice on any issues you are having or trying to avoid.

Mike Silverman's book "How Reliable Is Your Product: 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability" is now in Mandarin. You can view the 1st 3 Chapters at 50 Ways to Improve Reliability - in Mandarin. See Reviews.

download: NEW VIDEO for 50Ways Book. You can also view the video on YouTube at on 50Ways-YouTube. Reliability Concept Introduction Reliability Design Introduction Reliability Prototype Introduction Reliability Manufacturing Introduction reliability integration, Reliability Introduction The book is available for purchase at SuperStar Press or Amazon.com. You can preview the First 3 Chapters at 50 Ways to Improve Your Product Reliability.

Reliability Concept Introduction Reliability Design Introduction Reliability Prototype Introduction Reliability Manufacturing Introduction reliability integration, Reliability Introduction Please watch our two minute Ops A La Carte company overview video (left). The video describes our company and our services.
Note that if the video loads slowly, you can try the YouTube version instead.

 

Here is one of my favorite quotes because it fits our company philosophy very well:

"Reliability cannot be achieved by adhering to detailed specifications. Reliability cannot be achieved by formula or by analysis. Some of these may help to some extent, but there is only one road to reliability. Build it, test it, and fix the things that go wrong. Repeat the process until the desired reliability is achieved. It is a feedback process and there is no other way."

- David Packard, 1972

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HALT AND HASS LABS

Arrow Our reliability lab specializes in all forms of accelerated life testing, including:

Arrow Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)
Arrow Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)
Arrow Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)
Arrow Reliability Demonstration Testing (RDT)
Arrow On-Going Reliability Testing (ORT)

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Map of Ops A La Carte/HALT and HASS Labs at
990 Richard Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95050-2828, US

Our Cloud-Based HALT Calculator has now been upgraded to include an ROI calculation, variable confidence, and an MTBF calculator. Try it out and see what you think.

Go to iHALT Calculator. Need a free demo pass? Contact Us Info

For more information about it, you can visit our site at HALT/AFR Calculator Information. Click below for either the white paper or the video from our recent webinar on the tool

downloadHALT/AFR Calculator (brochure)
downloadHALT/AFR Calculator (white paper)
downloadHALT/AFR Calculator (webinar video)

See our HALT Vibration Table Video where we have slowed down the time at a rate of about 100:1. For the first time, you can actually see all six axes of vibration!
downloadHALT Vibration Video Slow Motion

See the new video for Mike's new book at:
download50 Ways to Improve Reliability - The Video

or you can view on YouTube at: 50Ways-YouTube

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Ops A La Carte is a Professional Reliability Engineering firm focused on providing you confidence in reliability throughout your product life cycle. We offer a flexible method of engagement from end-to-end reliability solutions to solving specific problems to providing individual targeted reliability services. We do this through reliability assessment, consultation, testing, and training. We have our own Reliability Lab called HALT and HASS Labs where we have successfully helped customers improve the reliability on over 500 different products. So whether you are having field failures or developing your next product and cannot take any chances on reliability, we will develop a reliability solution that is right for you.

Red ArrowSpring 2013 Newsletter - Learn about new events, and our featured Article: FREE Webinar Series

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reliability integration, Reliability IntroductionReliability Manufacturing IntroductionReliability Prototype IntroductionReliability Design IntroductionReliability Concept Introduction RELIABILITY BLOG - Be sure to check out our Blog which contains great discussions in relevant topics in today's industry. You can find it at Reliabilty-Blog. We have created about 15 different categories and will be posting articles and topics periodically. You can go on the blog and look any time you'd like without registering, but if you'd like to respond to any blog articles or would like notification when new blog topics have been posted, just fill out the quick registration form.

If you have a question, send to askops@opsalacarte.com

This past quarter we had some excellent blog articles, including:

Arrow Mechanical Failure Mechanisms and Reliability by Mike Doty
Arrow Why Reliability by Les Warrington
Arrow Wind Turbine Reliability Improvement Trends by Kim Parnell
Arrow Business - Operational Assessment by Mike Gozzo
Arrow Reliability Acronyms by Mike Silverman

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NEWS FROM LAST QUARTER

Arrow February 20, 2013 Ops' launches its new Reliapedia website, the most complete library of reliability information. And as part of our partnership with ASQ Reliability Division, you can also find it linked from ASQ's Reliability Division site at asq.org/reliability

Arrow February 13, 2013Ops' Managing Partner Mike SIlverman just completed his 32 day 9 city 4 country tour around North America and Europe. Mike visited the following areas, giving presentations and visit clients in each.

Arrow Feb 12, 2013, MD&M West - Anaheim, CA.

Arrow Feb 7th, 2013,ASQ Quality Conference, Denver
 

Arrow January 28-31, 2013 Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability Symposium (RAMS), Orlando, FL

ArrowJanuary 24, 2013 Best of Accelerated Reliability Testing, Prague, Czech Republic

Arrow Dec 6, 2012 BIOMEDevice Show, San Jose, CA

For more info on our other events, go to our NEWS Page.

 

EVENTS THIS QUARTER

Ops Will Be In Your Area this Spring. Ops A La Carte's Managing Partner Mike Silverman will be traveling around the US this winter visiting with clients and giving presentations at conferences. Whenever OPS visits a city, we offer 1 hour of free consultation to help you with any aspect of your reliability program. If we are going to be in your city, please let us know if you would like for us to visit your company.

Arrow March 4-8 Ohio
ArrowApril 4-8 Boston
ArrowMay 20-24 Vegas
ArrowJune 5-7 Minneapolis

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And here are the top 10 reliability events this spring...

1) Mar 7, 2013: International Reliability Innovations Conference (IRIC), FREE, San Jose, CA & webinar.  We will be presenting a paper on “Influencing Project Genetics – Reliability Before Design”. More>>

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2) Mar 13, 2013:  FMEA of FMEA’s:  FREE Webinar, 11:30am PST.  This is part of our FREE Webinar Series. More>>

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3) Mar 21, 2013:  ASQ Rel Soc Webinar, 9am PST, Accelerated Rel Techniques in the 21st Century. We will be leading a webinar for ASQ Reliability Society  More>>

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4) Mar 26, 2013:  Bio2Device Group Talk on Reliability, 9am PST, Sunnyvale CA, on Medical Reliability Testing.  More>>

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5) Apr 4, 2013:  2013 Electronics Design and Manufacturing Technical Conference, Boston, MA.  We will be giving a seminar on Design for Reliability principles and will be exhibiting at the show. More>>

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6) Apr 16-May 28, 2013:  CQE Certification Class, 6-10pm every Tuesday, Webconference only.  More>>

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7) May 6-10, 2013:  Ops A La Carte Annual Reliability Symposium, San Jose, CA and via webinar.  We will be holding our top 10 seminars in this one week event.  Come to one or spend the whole week.  It is completely flexible.  More>>

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8) May 16 and May 23, 2013:  Design for Reliability Webtorial, Webtorial through SMTA. More>>

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9) May 20-23, 2013:  Electronic System Technologies Conference and Exhibition, Las Vegas, NV.  We will be giving a seminar on Design for Reliability and will be presenting a paper on FMEA and will also be exhibiting at the event. More>>

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10) June 5-7, 2013:  Applied Reliability Symposium, Minneapolis, MN.  We will be presenting a paper on “Influencing Project Genetics – Reliability Before Design”. We will also be exhibiting at the event. More>>

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And here is an event coming up this fall that you won't want to miss

Accelerated Stress Test and Reliability (ASTR) Workshop - Oct 9-11, 2013, San Diego

For more info on our other events, go to our EVENTS Page.

 

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