Reliability Lab Testing, Consulting, Training.

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Engineering Success with Reliable Products.

Design for Manufacturability

Design for Manufacturability (DfM) Seminar

OBJECTIVES

DfM can reduce many reliability costs, since products can be quickly assembled from fewer parts. Thus, products are easier to build and assemble, in less time, with better quality. Parts are designed for ease of fabrication and commonality with other designs. DFM encourages standardization of parts, maximum use of purchased parts, modular design, and standard design features. In this course, designers will learn how to save time and money by not having to “re-invent the wheel.” The result is a broader product line that is responsive to customer needs.

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OVERVIEW

Imagine if a company could discover that 60 percent manufacturing costs are unnecessary. If it could act on it, would there be any need to outsource the jobs? Imagine further that lean manufacturing does not have to be mean. This course is about becoming very lean without being mean.

The participants will learn:

  • How to recognize critical product features for ultrahigh quality
  • How to translate critical design features into manufacturing requirements
  • How to recognize wasteful practices
  • How to replace wasteful practices into high impact best practices
  • How to reduce wrong lean practices and do more of right practices

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for those involved in manufacturing, design, or test, who want a better understanding of how to design a product in less time with better quality.

OUTLINE

  • What is manufacturing reliability?
  • Goals of manufacturing reliability
  • New paradigms for manufacturing systems
  • Identifying product features for ultrahigh quality
  • Identifying key process characteristics to assure product features
  • Why inspection is rarely effective?
  • Process Failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA)
  • Developing sound manufacturing controls
  • Why maintainability is important for zero unscheduled down time?
  • Techniques for developing reliability centered maintenance
  • Reliability improvement techniques
  • Maintainability improvement techniques
  • Total predictive maintenance
  • Elegant problem solving techniques for high return on investment
  • Fault tree analysis for solving difficult problems
  • Change analysis for sudden problems
  • Principles of lean ultrahigh quality
  • How to be the best lean producer

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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."