Confidence in Reliability^TM

Our HALT Calculator is now available via the web - as a internet/Cloud-Based tool. To use it, go to iHALT Calculator. And it is now being sold as an option on Chart HALT Chambers. For more information about it, you can visit our site at HALT/AFR Calculator Information. Or download our HALT/AFR Calculator (white paper)

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. It will be available in ebook January, 2012. See Reviews.

: NEW VIDEO for 50Ways Book. You can also view the video on YouTube at on 50Ways-YouTube. 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.

Please watch our new two minute Ops A La Carte company overview video (above). The video describes our company and our services.
Note that if the video loads slowly, you can try the YouTube version instead.

HALT AND HASS LABS

In April, we moved our east coast lab from Cambridge to Bedford Massachusetts to be more strategically located to our clients.

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)

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.

Winter 2011 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:

Reliability of Repairable Systems vs. Non-Repairable Systems by Aron Rolnitzky
Multiple Control Accelerometer Data – what it is REALLY showing you by Steve Brenner
Continuation of Supplier Development by Mike Gozzo
A Novel FMECA Approach by Murray Shubaly
Mahalanobis distance and reliability methods by Lou LaVallee
Harry & Sally and the Bathtub by Edward Smith
Integrating Simulation into a Reliability Program by Kim Parnell
Reliability Specifications by Bob Bowman
Soft Errors and No Trouble Found by Charlie Slayman
The Case of the Malnourished Zener Diode by Harvey Altstadter
Reliability Acronyms by Mike Silverman