Mike Silverman 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 your company in developing and executing any and all elements of Reliability throughout your Organization and your Product's Life Cycle. Mike Silverman has over 20 years experience in reliability engineering, management and 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, and Applied Materials. He has consulted in a variety of different industries including telecommunications, networking, medical, semiconductor equipment, consumer electronics, power, and defense electronics. Mike has authored and published 7 papers on reliability techniques and has presented these around the world including China, Germany, and Canada. He has also developed and currently teaches 8 courses on reliability techniques. Mike has a BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is a Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) through American Society for Quality (ASQ). Mike is a member of ASQ, IEEE, SME, ASME, PATCA, ASPMFG, and IEEE Consulting Society.

Click for a summary of his course descriptions: Essential Reliability Tools;
Accelerated and Classical Reliability Methods Integrated.

Published Papers