Reliability Lab Testing, Consulting, Training.

Ops a la Carte

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Engineering Success with Reliable Products.

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Organizationally, to maximize reliability at the lowest possible cost, Reliability Assessment is a great start for determining priorities for improving the reliability program. It is a quick and thorough evaluation of most elements of the organization's approach and execution to achieving reliable products. The assessment reveals areas of strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, plus the organization's reliability maturity level.

Our unique and proprietary HALT / AFR Calculator is the first ever calculator that can predict field reliability from HALT Results.

We offer a wide range of consulting services across a Product's Life Cycle. Our expertise in selecting, applying, and integrating reliability tools and methodologies to match your product requirements, plus our skill in educating and mentoring your team, gives you the ability to achieve phenomenal reliability growth. Of course, if you already know what you need, you can choose from our List of Reliability Consulting Services "A La Carte."

Ops A La Carte tailors a program to fit your particular product, market and organization so that you get the optimal solution. We provide Educational Services for smooth transitions.

Implementing reliability in 4 stages of a
product’s development cycle

We provide consulting to companies of all sizes, at all stages of a product’s development cycle:

Concept

Reliability Goal Setting and establishing a plan to achieve the goals characterize this phase. Reliability goals are part business decision, part technology capability and part customer driven. Benchmarking provides an external view of industry reliability programs, processes and standards in use, plus a view of customer expectations. Gap Analysis highlights deficiencies between your current situation and goals. A Technology Risk Assessment examines the product concept to identify high reliability risk elements. Armed with this information you can then develop a realistic Reliability Program and Integration Plan. This plan is the critical roadmap to guide product development to meet reliability goals.

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Design

Key to a reliable product is the many design decisions, and for each decision, designers balance reliability with cost, time-to-market and performance objectives. Reliability Models and Predictions provide prioritization and feedback for each decision. Analysis of the system reliability or availability connections to key modules or components through Reliability Block Diagramming or Fault Tree Analysis help establish realistic sub-system goals and identify high risk areas in the design. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis provides a structured method to identify potential risks, their impact, and mitigation effectiveness.

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Prototype

Discovering design weaknesses and verifying achievement of reliability goals becomes possible with prototypes. The Reliability Test Plan tailors the suite of evaluations to each development project for an effective and efficient product assessment. A very rapid way to discover design weaknesses is with the Highly Accelerated Life Testing approach. The elimination of electrical and mechanical flaws pushes the design margins as wide as possible.

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Manufacturing

As the product transitions to manufacturing, the reliability goals, models and test results become the basis for refining reliability screening, monitoring and reporting. Establishing a Highly Accelerated Stress Screen identifies and eliminates infant mortalities. To protect from time dependant failure mechanism and to monitor the projected life estimates, conduct an Ongoing Reliability Test.

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Email Us: info@OPSaLaCarte.com

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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."