Reliability Lab Testing, Consulting, Training.

Ops a la Carte

Call: (408) 654-0499, x204

Email: info@OPSaLaCarte.com

Engineering Success with Reliable Products.

Lab Testing + Reliability Consulting in

concept,
design,
prototype,
manufacturing.

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We are a leading reliability engineering consulting firm since 2001. We have helped many companies create robust products and elevate them to great success, even become the leader in their industry. We are known for providing the whole gamut of reliability lab testing, consulting, and training. With over 25 reliability engineer-experts around the world, with diverse backgrounds and experience, we serve both domestic and global businesses in all areas of reliability, in depth and width.

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Testing

We are a highly professional one-stop shop for reliability services, including Reliability Lab testing and other testing. All work is performed by certified reliability engineers. Our engineers, with an average of 20 years of experience, provide their expert recommendations and guidance. Our professional standard goes beyond mere “shake, rattle, and roll testing” or simply issuing standard certificates.

HALT and HASS Labs® & Testing

Our own HALT and HASS Labs® are co-located to San Jose Airport. Many companies have benefited through our highly professional lab testing, to uncover design weaknesses and improve the design margins for more reliable products. The operating and destruct limits discovered during HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test) can also be used to develop an effective HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screen) for manufacturing. HASS will quickly detect any process flaws or new weak links without taking significant life out of the product. The HASS process can ensure that the gains realized through reliability engineering from HALT will be maintained in future production.

Our in-house labs also support a number of environmental test conditions such as application of temperature, vibration and humidity.

Other Test Services

Together with our network of labs, we also provide additional environmental testing, solar, UV, SALT spray testings, ESD (electro-static discharge), EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) and safety certification, such as such as UL, CE, and failure analysis.

Consulting

Whether or not a company uses our lab testing, we consult on the whole gamut of reliability issues. We often advise in conjunction with testing and/or training.

We advise on every stage, from concept, design, prototype, and manufacturing, in such areas:

Concept:

Assessing reliability performance such as gap analysis, benchmarking, technology risk assessments, reliability program plans;

Design:

Application of appropriate reliability modeling methodologies such as FMEA, DfSS, DfR, DfM, reliability block diagramming, fault tree analysis, thermal analysis, reliability prediction, derating analysis, finite element analysis, material selection, sneak circuit analysis, warranty predictions;

Prototype:

Discovering design weaknesses with testing using reliability test plans, HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Test), HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screen), ALT (Accelerated Life Test), RDT (Reliability Demonstration Test), ORT (Ongoing Reliability Tests), Closed Loop Corrective Action, appropriate environmental testing (dust and moisture ingress, material degradation, salt spray and solar sensitivity);

Manufacturing:

Analyzing and improving manufactured products throughout their lifetime with vendor reliability program assessments, setting up field failure tracking systems and repair depots, performing root cause analysis, warranty performance analysis, end-of-life assessment.

BONUS: We educate, mentor and empower companies to achieve phenomenal reliability growth.

Training

We design and offer customized hands-on training and workshops based on a company’s particular needs and products, and we bring them to the companies at their own facilities.

We also offer some of the more popular courses to the public throughout the year via webinars.

We bring your team up to speed on any reliability processes and solutions.

Want “A La Carte”, or “OPS” (“Ounce of Prevention Strategy”) Full Course Package?

As a result of serving clients in many individual phases of Reliability, Ops A La Carte has developed a complete menu of Reliability Engineering Services. These services cover everything for your product's life cycle. You can pick either reliability services a la carte, provided that you clearly know what you need, or, in case you don’t know the whole 9 yards, and want to use our expertise in guiding and advising, you can pick the full course reliability package of consulting, training, and testing.

The Ounce of Prevention (OPS) approach is that proactive method for doing it. “OPS” means “Ounce of Prevention Strategy”, a a proactive reliability approach of setting a goal and writing a plan to achieve your reliability targets with no surprises. This package includes Identifying reliability deficiencies, solving, and getting your program on track to achieve your reliability targets. Our documented process will consistently allow you to achieve your reliability goals program after program. The process of using multiple reliability elements in conjunction to greatly increase the power and value of any Reliability Program.

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Address: 990 Richard Ave, Suite 101, Santa Clara, CA 95050

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OPS A La Carte, Engineering Success with Reliable Products. We are a leading reliability engineering consulting firm since 2001. We have helped many companies create robust products and elevate them to great success, even become the leader in their industry. We are known for providing the whole gamut of reliability lab testing, consulting, and training. With over 25 reliability engineer-experts around the world, with diverse backgrounds and experience, we serve both domestic and global businesses in all areas of reliability, in depth and width. Hi, my name is Jay Muns, owner and CEO. I have more than 30 years of experience in engineering and business operations.

OPS A La Carte have produced very high-quality results for us, with fast turnaround times. Their engineers are the best in their field, are a pleasure to work with, and their work is of the highest standards available. This has helped us obtain critical product approvals…” We help companies see from outside of their forest and understand what they didn’t know before. Companies come to us out of three scenarios: First, when their products fail. We help put out the fire by identifying problems and providing solutions. Second, after a product is designed, to check the box and move on with getting their product into the marketplace. The best is third: to get engaged early, by including reliability as a part of their initial product design goals. This will save time, money and energy. It is much better to have a worry-free product that addresses reliability issues upfront, than dealing with deficiencies after a product is developed, or worse, already manufactured and sold to the end users. Being proactive with reliability engineering will save a business tons of money and trouble. In all scenarios, you receive professional expertise with integrity and at a fair price. Many of our clients are repeat customers for years because of the value we consistently deliver.

Our ENGINEER-consultants each have over 20 years of experience and perform lab testing, consulting and training based on actual reliability science. They follow well established industry standards, such as “HALT” (highly accelerated life test,) and “HASS” (highly accelerated stress screen.) These engineers evaluate, make recommendations and validate results based on highly relevant lab data, co-relating to real world data. Whether your company has a reliability department or not, you can take advantage of our entire testing-consulting-training package, or any portion of it. We also offer Failure analysis and safety certification services such as UL, CE, and other environmental testing services, like solar, UV, SALT spray testing, ESD (electro-static discharge,) and EMC (electro-magnetic compatibility.)

“Ops A La Carte trained us to use HALT methodology as a proactive tool, to root out key failures in our early and advanced prototypes, and that made it possible for us to deliver dependability that our customers demand, in pilot and production units."“...OPS has played a key role in our evolution from a research company to a manufacturer of ‘mission-critical’ components.” A couple of companies describe our HALT/HASS training as “highly informative, engaging and exciting.” “The benefit far exceeds the price."

Our mission is to enable companies to create their happy customers, with a well-engineered product. By helping our clients understand the real problems and the real solutions, we help improve their careers and reputations. Achieving the win-win-win results for our clients and their customers is our ultimate satisfaction. We have a family-like company culture with positive energy and great teamwork. An improved and reliable product is our own small way to contribute to a better humanity and a slightly better world. Call us at (408) 654-0499, or email us at info@opsalacarte.com, or visit our website www.opsalacarte.com. Thank you!

A couple of our clients' testimonials:

"The expert team at OPS assisted us in evaluating the available reliability testing possibilities, and with their help, we crafted a customized test program precisely sized to meet the needs of our project. The resulting program proved to our team, our customers, and our regulatory auditors that our product was robust, met its reliability goals effectively, and satisfied all safety risk factors."

"...Ops A La Carte worked with us to develop a testing program based on HALT and HASS to effectively assess low-temperature operation capability and screen the boards for assembly and component defects. They then facilitated and supported the HALT and HASS testing effort. It was quicker and more efficient than we had expected. The boards for the first four strings have been delivered. We are looking forward to working with them through completion of the project."