Confidence in Reliability^TM

Recently, we came across an old quote from HP's David Packard that 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 exten, 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

HALT AND HASS LABS

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

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

Bedford, MA

Map of HALT and HASS Labs East
6 Crosby Dr., Bedford, MA 01730, US

Our HALT Calculator is now available as a Cloud-Based application. To use it, go to iHALT Calculator.

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

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

See our new 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!
HALT Vibration Video Slow Motion

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

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

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.

Spring 2012 Newsletter - Learn about new events, and our featured Article: FREE Webinar Series

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.

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

Mahalanobis distance and reliability methods by Lou LaVallee
Zener Diode Failure in a Clipper Application by Harvey Altstadter
Gaining Control over Cost and Quality in Global Manufacturing by Camstar, Agilent, Harmonic, and Ops A La Carte
Reliability Acronyms by Mike Silverman