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Summer is almost here and that means it is time for summer break for many of you. HALT and HASS Labs is holding our own Summer Break special in which we have rolled back prices for all tests in our HALT Lab to 1995 prices. That's right! We have reduced our prices back to what we charged 15 years ago when we first opened our lab. See our latest Newsletter for more details on this special.

We will be hosting a Clean Tech event on June 8th. The theme of the event is Green Technology Reliability. See our News Events tab for more details.

My book "50 Ways to Improve Your Product Reliability" is in final editing and is due to be published within the next quarter. Check back for more details. For a sneak preview of the book, you can download the first two chapters at Reliability Book: 50 Ways - 1st_Two_Chapters.

We completed our west coast Design for Excellence (DfX) Symposium in San Jose in April. We will be holding it again October 11-15 in Austin, Texas.

Check out our new calendar of events at the bottom of this page. We wanted to make it easier for you to see what was going on in the world of reliability. All the events are shown in more detail within the website. The education courses are shown in more detail in our Education tab and our events are shown in more detail in our News Events tab.

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We are holding a Summer Break special in which we will all tests in which we have rolled back prices for all tests in our HALT Lab to 1995 prices. That's right! We have reduced our prices back to what we charged 15 years ago when we first opened our lab. See our latest Newsletter for more details on this special.

In March, we opened our newest HALT and HASS Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. All the great service you have been receiving on the west coast is now available on the east coast as well.

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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990 Richard Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95050-2828, US

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We have completed and released our new HALT/AFR Calculator. Click below for either the white paper or the video from our recent webinar on the tool
downloadNEW! HALT/AFR Calculator (white paper)
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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!
downloadNEW! HALT Vibration Video

 

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 ArrowSummer 2010 Newsletter - Learn about new events, and our featured Article: Soft Errors: The Key to Your NPFs? which discusses the significance of Soft Errors in modern electronics and why this may be the key to why No Problem Found (NPF) rates are increasing at many of our clients.

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RELIABILITY BLOG - Ops A La Carte has released our new Blog dedicated to the topic of Reliability. 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 entries, including:

Analyzing Data for Repairable Systems, by Greg Larsen
How to Avoid Being the Next Toyota, by Mike Silverman
Outsourcing Revisited – What have we learned?, by Mike Gozzo

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NEWS

Arrow Presentation on Impact and Mitigation of DRAM and SRAM Soft Errors. Download WEBCAST here. More>>

Arrow Presentation on ZIF Connector Failure Analysis at the annual SMTA symposium in Toronto. More>>

Arrow Presentation on Design for Reliability at the annual Del Mar Electronics Show in San Diego. More>>

Arrow Presentation on How to Avoid Being the Next Toyota at the monthly IEEE Reliability/Safety Society meeting in Santa Clara, CA. More>>

Arrow Ops adds two new reliability consultants. Charlie Slayman (San Jose, CA) is an expert on Soft Errors and their effects on electronics. Matt Lashinsky (San Diego) is an expert in fluid mechanics. See the Ops Team for more details. More>>

Arrow Ops teams up with DfR Solutions to provide a Design for Excellence Symposium in April. We will offering this symposium one more time the week of Oct 11-15 in Austin, TX. More>>

See Education Schedule for more details

 

EVENTS

ArrowTopic: Green Technology Reliability Seminar
Date: June 8, 2010, 1-6pm
Location: DLI Labs, Austin, TX and via webinar
About Event: Ops' Mike Silverman will be giving a presentation along with several industry speakers, including Paul Parker from Solar Bridge and Nathan Reddy from Polycom. This is a FREE event. Register for LIVE EVENT or WEBINAR.

Arrow Topic: Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS)
Date: June 15-18
Location: Reno, Nevada
About Event: We will be presenting "HALT Calculator - New Fast Method for Determining Product MTBF", by Mike Silverman and Harry McLean. More>>

ArrowPRG Summer Barbeque
Date: Friday, August 20
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
About Event: We will have several technical presentations followed by a fun barbeque. More>>

COURSES

Arrow Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) Preparation Course
Dates: August 17 - September 28, 2010
Time: 6pm-10pm one night a week, 7 weeks
Instructor: Doug Farel and John Cooper of Ops
Length: 7 weeks
Cost: $1295
Location: San Jose, CA

Also available via internet

For more info on our other courses, go to our Education Page at EDUCATION

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