In today’s consulting market helping customers that have serious system reliability issues but low budgets to solve the problems can be challenging. Customers that are cash strapped are looking for the maximum bang for the buck and cannot afford to hire high paid consultants and make too many system changes in design. If they do, they may try to keep the work as brief as possible to cut down the time on the job. This is understandable and managerially it seems like the only option. When faced with this situation, even top of the line consultants may error in proposing a work package that is technically complete and has all of the bells and whistles needed to answer all technical questions with the concomitant costs to the customer. The proposals may be technically good in one way but may …
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Reliability Conferences – RAMS, MD&M, and CMSE
Last week was the annual Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) conference. We presented 5 papers/tutorials. If you were not able to attend, let us know and we can get you copies of our presentations. Next week is the Medical Design and Manufacturing (MD&M) show in Anaheim California. We will be presenting a paper on Monday entitled "Reliability Challenges in the Medical Industry". Hopefully you can join us. If not, let us know and we can get you a copy of that paper. Also next week is the Components for Military and Space Electronics CMSE Conference in Los Angeles. We will be presenting a paper on Wednesday entitled "New Fast Methods for Determining MTBF using HALT Results". Hopefully you can join us. If not, let us know and we can get you a copy of that …
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Free Webinar: A Faster, Cheaper Method for Determining Product MTBF – the HALT AFR Calculator – Friday, Nov 6, 9am PST
Free Webinar: A Faster, Cheaper Method for Determining Product MTBF - the HALT AFR Calculator - Friday, Nov 6, 9am PST Register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/523479043 Background: The Field Failure Rate Calculator is a patent pending mathematical model that, when provided with the appropriate HALT and product information, will accurately estimate the product’s field inherent AFR or Actual Failure Rate. Vocabulary: MTBF is Mean Time Between Failure, AFR is Actual Failure Rate, HALT is Highly Accelerated Life Testing used in design engineering to improve product robustness, HASS is Highly Accelerated Stress Screening using in manufacturing to reduce infant mortalities, HASA is Highly Accelerated Stress Auditing which is an audit form of HASS. Go to www.opsalacarte.com and …
