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MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER Welcome to our 30th quarterly newsletter. Our newsletter comes out the first week of March, June, September, and December. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. This month we are introducing a new program called our Ounce of Prevention Strategy (OPS) where we help you discover problems BEFORE they happen. There are many reliability companies that claim they have the secret technique for doing this - companies that tout Physics of Failure, Design for Six Sigma, HALT, and more. But in reality it will take a combination of a number of different methods for you to achieve your reliability goal. And with our OPS program, through our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis, we architect the proper reliability program to fit your specific needs. See our Featured Service section for more details as well as catch our upcoming OPS Webinar on Wednesday June 6 explaining the process in more detail. This is one you won't want to miss. We hope you find value in the following newsletter. Our next newsletter will come out the first week of September. Thank you for your continued support and interest. - Mike Silverman, Managing Partner/Founder
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About Event: Each month, we will bring you a free webinar topic. Below is our current line-up for this quarter. You can click on the registration page for each event.
This webinar discusses our “Ounce of Prevention Strategy (OPS)” to provide you insight for ensuring perfect execution toward a Reliable Product from launch through end-of-life and a Reliable Company that can deliver consistently Reliable Products. As one C-Level executive told us: "I want no surprises". The only way to accomplish this is to set a goal and then develop a plan to achieve this goal. That is what our OPS methodology is all about. The implementation process is a set of steps that include 1) Assessing, Seting a Goal, and Writing a Reliability Plan, 2) Discovering through Analysis and Testing, 3) Monitoring and Continual Improvement, and 4) Training and Coaching. Each one is integrated together perfectly to produce the most reliable product at the lowest possible cost in the least amount of time. This webinar will be led by James R. Johnson, Director of Client Performance, Reliability and Quality Assurance. In this webinar, Jim will explore what makes a Reliable Product and a Reliable Company and how you can utilize our Ounce of Prevention Strategy (OPS) to achieve both.
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Description: Becoming certified as a Reliability Engineer (CRE) can be valuable to your employer and your career. We are offering this Exam Preparation Course. Students have found it very valuable in preparing for the exam. Even if you are not planning on taking the exam but need a good, in-depth course in Reliability Engineering, this can benefit you substantially. Special new options: Course Webpage: CRE Course by Ops A La Carte. For more info or to register, please
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About Event: On June 7, 2:30-4:30pm, we will be touring Willow Garage in Menlo Park, CA. Willow Garage develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. They are pioneering Open Source Robotics with their open Robot Operating System (ROS). Willow Garage's vision is to see personal robots as the next paradigm-shifting personal productivity tool. Come join us for this fascinating tour and view into the robots of the future.
Ops A La Carte's Mike Silverman will be giving a presentation on "DFROI – Calculating ROI When Implementing a Design for Reliability Program".
Ops A La Carte's Mike Silverman will be giving a tutorial entitled "30 years of HALT - What Have We Learned?" |
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This quarter, we will be visiting even more areas, including Toronto, Maryland, and Turkey. Whenever OPS visits a city, we offer 1 hour of free consultation to help you with any aspect of your reliability program. Please refer to the News section for the exact dates. 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. In addition, we will offer you a free copy of Mike's book "How Reliable Is Your Product: 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability" just for giving us the opportunity to speak with you. Also, we have developed a new Self-Assessment tool. If you take it, we will also give you a free book. If interested, |
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All presentations that we gave can be found on the technical download section of our website at Technical Papers.
Jim has over 22 years of experience in quality and reliability. He has In-depth experience in Total Quality Management, Program Management, global contract manufacturing and supply chain to continually enhance quality, reliability, profitability, and productivity by ensuring incoming, in process, and outgoing material/products efficiently meet business objectives and customer satisfaction. Led, fostered, and motivated teamwork cohesion to sustain design improvement and process efficiency with cost reduction, high yield, and low return rates at highest Quality Level. Teamwork cohesion for continual enhancement in design improvement, detail oriented quality, reliability, profitability, productivity, vendor approval, and supply chain management Proficient in the use of FMEA, CAPA, FDA, Six-Sigma, SIPOC, GR&R, RoHS, Safety, EMI/EMC; implementation and certification of TQM/ISO9001: 2000/TL9000; ISO14000.
Yoram has 30 years of experience in reliability and RF design. Results-oriented leader with senior management experience in the Product and Test Engineering discipline within Operations. Demonstrated engineering, manufacturing and program management know how with proven track record of transferring and releasing new products from engineering to production and simultaneously increasing efficiency and yield of released products. Establish new products manufacturing process flow and introduce test infrastructure by second prototypes phase date to support engineering bring up. Able to quickly assess technical and yield challenges on complex products and develop a plan to resolve them while meeting committed customer ship dates. Experience in low volume/high mix system production testing as well as in high volume/low cost consumer products. Entrepreneurial management style, strong work ethic with positive can-do attitude. He has a BS and MS from USC and an MBA from Pepperdine.
Frank has over 30 years of experience in Reliability, Maintainability, and System Safety Program Plans and Prediction Analysis in Defense and Commercial Programs. In the early stages of his career he became a Process Trainer for TQMS implementation at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, CA, where he performed Stand up- training on Continuous Improvement Process involving, Standard Work techniques, Just- in-Time Manufacturing Techniques, Kan- Ban and Taguchi methodologies, as well a Statistical Process Control. Frank has extensive experience on the preparation and delivery of R & M Program Plans, System Safety and Fault Hazard Analysis, FMECA and Fault Tree development and analysis. In the last 10 years as an Independent Contractor, Frank has performed and delivered Hundred of DoD required documents for the Client in a short Turn-Around-Time.
Ops A La Carte's Mike Silverman gave a 3 hour class on "Medical Reliability Testing - Identifying Testing Requirements Early." Last year, Mike gave a similar talk at MD&M New York, MD&M Chicago, MD&M Minneapolis, and MD&M Anaheim.
Ops A La Carte's Peter Arrowsmith gave a presentation at this conference on "Improving Product Reliability Using Accelerated Stress Testing". The paper was co-authorized by our client Bojan Randjelovic at AB Sciex.
Overview: This panel of industry experts looks at how to identify all the risks in development, and shares their knowledge of the latest emerging risks. The panelists offer a variety of perspectives – ranging from Mechanical and Electrical Design, Product Reliability and Parts Fabrication. Practical issues of how upstream design decisions impact downstream performance, quality and costs will be explored.
In addition, the PRG recently released a white paper on NPI Seven Best Practices.
This is part of our monthly FREE Webinar series Robust Design (RD) Methodology is discussed for hardware development. Comparison is made with reliability engineering (RE) tools and practices. Differences and similarities are presented. Proximity to ideal function for robust design is presented and compared to physics of failure and other reliability modeling and prediction approaches. Measurement selection is shown to strongly differentiates RD and reliability engineering methods. When and how to get the most from each methodology is outlined. Pitfalls for each set of practices are also covered.
This is part of our monthly FREE Webinar series Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. In this seminar, we introduced the basics of Tribology, their impact on reliability and do so from the perspective of machine applications. Lubrication, film thickness, loads and Hertzian contact types effect the reliability of a design. Weibull is frequently used to model wear characteristics, but is this always the best distribution for characterizing the reliability of machine elements? All of these areas were explored.
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