Mike is Managing Partner of Ops A La Carte LLC, a Professional Consulting Firm focused on Reliability Engineering Services, Reliability Management, and Reliability Education to assist companies in developing and executing any and all elements of Reliability throughout an Organization and their Product's Life Cycle. Mike has over 20 years experience in reliability engineering, reliability management and reliability training. He is an experienced leader in reliability improvement through analysis and testing. Mike is also an expert in accelerated reliability techniques, including HALT and HASS. He set up and ran an accelerated reliability test lab for 5 years, testing over 300 products for 100 companies in 40 different industries. Through Ops A La Carte, Mike has had extensive experience as a consultant to high-tech companies, and has consulted for over 200 companies including Cisco, Ciena, Siemens, Intuitive Surgical, AeroGen, Abbott Labs,
Having well-defined goals with appropriate metrics is an important first step to achieve overall product reliability objectives. We must then choose a set of reliability tools and techniques to achieve our goals. Generally speaking, there are two approaches to achieving product reliability objectives: 1) Reliability Improvement Techniques, such as FMEA and HALT and 2) Reliability Measurement Techniques, such as Reliability Predictions and Reliability Verification Tests. A good reliability program requires a balance between the two approaches and a subset of reliability tools and techniques from each. Next, we must seamlessly and cohesively integrate the reliability tools and techniques that we have chosen to maximize reliability at the lowest possible cost. This presentation provides an outline of how to quickly assess your product's situation, define your reliability goals, narrow down the appropriate reliability tools and techniques, and then integrate these together in your reliability program.
