Mike Silverman

Managing Partner Ops A La Carte, Reliability Engineering Consultant
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Mike Silverman has a long history in the field of Reliability. Mike is founder and Managing Partner of Ops A La Carte, a Santa Clara, CA based Reliability Consulting firm. Through Ops A La Carte, Mike has provided reliability consulting services to over 500 clients. His clients span over 90 different industries, including medical, defense, aerospace, clean technology, oil and gas, consumer electronics, telecom, and many others.

Mike and his team at Ops have authored and published over 50 papers and 30 seminars on reliability techniques and have presented these around the world. Some of the papers Mike has authored are:

  • "Green Reliability: The Role of Reliability in the Cleantech World", 2010
  • "Reliability Challenges in the Medical Industry", 2009
  • "Developing a Better Reliability Test Program", 2009
  • "Field Failure Rate Estimate from HALT Results", 2009
  • "Managing Outsourcing Risks", 2008
  • "Timely Resolution to Parts Obsolescence", 2008
  • "Root Cause Analysis", 2008
  • "Quality Risks in Outsourcing", 2008
  • "How to Develop a Qualification Test Plan for RoHS Products", January, 2008
  • "Leading Indicators: A Better Method for Accelerated Life Testing", October, 2007
  • "Early Reliability Testing", June, 2007
  • "Risks During RoHS Transition", 2007
  • "Three Views on Consultant Marketing", 2007
  • "RoHS in a High Reliability Environment", 2007
  • "Software Design for Reliability", 2006
  • "To ALT or Not to ALT", 2006
  • "Competitive Analysis", 2006
  • "HALT vs. ALT: When to Use Which Technique?" October, 2006
  • "New Techniques for More Effective ESS", 2005
  • "Pre HALT Analysis" 2004
  • "Reliability Integration" October, 2002
  • "Thermal and Vibration Isolation Techniques for Hard Drives and PCI Cards," October, 1999
  • "Highly Accelerated Stress Screening Development/Proof-of-Screen Methodology: How to Develop a Screen, When to Change a Screen, and When to Re-Prove a Screen", July, 1999
  • "Why Highly Accelerated Life Tests Cannot Produce a Meaningful Mean Time Between Failure Number and Why This Should Not Be a Concern," May, 1999
  • "Accelerated Reliability Test Techniques Used to Find Defects within Printed Circuit Boards," September, 1997
  • "Summary of HALT & HASS Results at an Accelerated Reliability Test Center," April, 1996
  • "HALT and HASS on the VoiceMemo II," February, 1995

      For a complete list of presentations, please go to Reliability Tech Papers. For a complete list of courses, please go to Reliability Course List.

      Mike is a regular speaker and through his Ops A La Carte company has provided presentations to the following organizations and societies around the country and around the world. Below is a partial list of conferences and seminars where Mike has presented. The attached link is a gallery of gallery of photos where Mike has traveled offering these seminars.

      • American Society of Quality (ASQ)
      • IEEE Consulting Society
      • IEEE Reliability Society
      • Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA)
      • Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS)
      • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
      • Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
      • San Jose University
      • Stanford University Product Realization Network
      • Product Realization Group
      • Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability (ASTR) workshop
      • Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS)
      • Quality & Productivity Research Conference (QPRC)
      • Components for Military and Space Electronics (CMSE)
      • Del Mar Electronics Show (DMES)
      • Asian National Quality (ANQ) Conference

      Mike has also taught his Design for Reliability course all over the world, including China, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Germany, Canada, South Africa, England, Belgium, Ukraine, and more. Click for a gallery of photos of some places Mike has traveled both for business and pleasure.

      Mike Silverman is the founder of the HALT AND HASS LABS which recently celebrated its 15th birthday (May 2009) and is the 2nd oldest, and longest operating, HALT and HASS lab in the world.

      The HALT and HASS lab specializes in all forms of accelerated life testing, including:
      • Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)
      • Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)
      • Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)
      • Reliability Demonstration Testing (RDT)
      • Reliability Growth Testing (RGT)
      • On-Going Reliability Testing (ORT)

      Mike has a BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is both a Certified Reliability Engineer and a course instructor through the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and IEEE, Mike is a member of ASQ, IEEE, SME, ASME, PATCA, and IEEE Consulting Society and currently the Chair of the IEEE Reliability Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter.

      CONTACT INFO:
      Main:  (408) 654-0499
      Mobile: (408) 472-3889
      Skype:  mikesilverman
      Email:  mikes@opsalacarte.com
      URL:   www.opsalacarte.com
      Blog:  www.opsalacarte.com/reliability-blog
      Linked-In:  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-silverman/0/3a7/24b
      Twitter:  http://twitter.com/opsalacarte
      Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Santa-Clara-CA/Ops-A-La-Carte-LLC/155189552669


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