About BQR Reliability Engineering
Pioneering shift-left reliability and RAMS innovation since 1989 — the people, the methodology and the milestones.
About BQR
- Where we started: We began in 1989 as a consultancy, on the Lavi aircraft programme, and grew into a software company. The job has not really changed since: help engineers build systems that fail less, and that are cheaper to keep running when they do.
- What shift-left means: Schematic verification, stress and derating analysis, RAMS modelling and maintenance planning, in one toolchain. Fewer respins, shorter release cycles, and a product your field team can actually support.
- Built on patents: The simulation and analysis algorithms behind the products are covered by several patents. They have been through more than 4,500 projects.
Vision & Mission
- Vision: Reliability should be designed in, not discovered in test. That means models that carry across products and disciplines rather than being rebuilt each time (MBSE), analysis that finds the expensive failures before they happen, and engineers who can move quickly without gambling on it.
- Mission: Give engineers and managers tools that do the reliability work rather than document it: automated verification, performance prediction, maintenance planning. Reliability stops being the thing you answer for after the fact.
Systems Engineering with BQR RAMS Software
- Products are systems, not boxes of parts: Hardware, mechanical assemblies, software, operators, procedures and the operating environment all interact. Together they produce failures that none of the parts show on their own, which is why RAMS has to be engineered rather than estimated at the end.
- Electrical & electronic: Active and passive components, ICs, power electronics, signal chains, connectors and PCB assemblies. ASIC and FPGA failure mechanisms where you need the fidelity, plus the stress, derating and failure-propagation effects that decide real mission risk.
- Mechanical: Bearings, motors, shafts, gearboxes, pumps, fans, structures and housings, with fatigue, wear, vibration, thermal effects, lubrication and corrosion.
- Software & control logic: Firmware, drivers, operating modes, fault handling, diagnostics and built-in test. Also the human side of it: alarm strategies, recovery actions and how an operator responds under pressure.
- Human & operational: Operators and maintainers, procedures, training, maintenance errors, logistics delays, and the operational events that drive system state and downtime.
- Environmental stressors: Temperature, vibration, corrosion, power anomalies, misuse and external events. These interact nonlinearly, which is how you end up with failure paths and availability losses that component MTBF alone will never explain.
History & Milestones
- 1989: Founded as a RAMS consultancy. First contract: the Lavi aircraft.
- 1990: Hired the first research staff.
- 1991: First software product, for aerospace, alongside consulting for aerospace and telecom. — CARE®
- 2002: The X-35 programme with Fokker, and our first maintenance optimization software. — CAME®
- 2010: CAME became apmOptimizer. Into oil and gas, with Petrobras and SAAB. — apmOptimizer® LCC, MSG-3
- 2014: Isaac joined to run software, Amir to run engineering. — fiXtress®
- 2016: First sales in China, and two large projects: Baker Hughes and Ramon Airport.
- 2018: Our first ECAD plug-in, and a rail project with Motorola. — OrCAD plug-in
- 2020: Covid. Engineers could not get to the lab, so they simulated from home instead. — Altium and Mentor plug-ins
- 2022: 3,000 projects, 300 customers.
- 2025: 4,500 projects, 600 customers, and the shift-left approach for building RAMS into electronic design. — Synthelyzer®, CircuitHawk®
- 2026: New bqr.com and bqr-digital.com go live, and every product follows over the coming months. Operational efficiency through AI becomes the strategy, with a Chief AI Officer appointed to lead it.
Our Methodology: Shift-Left Reliability
- Design-phase checks: Catch preventable schematic issues before PCB layout and first-article build.
- Quantified stress and derating: Check that every component stays inside its margins across the whole mission profile.
- RAMS digital twin: Model functions, failure modes and maintenance to forecast availability and risk.
- Maintenance optimization: Plan the spares and the tasks that keep downtime and lifecycle cost down.
- End-to-end traceability: From the ECAD check through to RAMS results and field maintenance KPIs.
Areas of Expertise
- Electronic Design Verification: Our tools plug into Altium, OrCAD and Siemens EDA and check the schematic while it is being drawn. A problem found there costs a redraw; the same problem found after first article costs a respin.
- Maintenance Optimization: We model the maintenance regime and the spares holding together, because they trade against each other. What you get back is a schedule and an inventory, not a report about one.
- Reliability Analysis & Prediction: MTBF prediction, FMEA/FMECA, reliability block diagrams and fault trees, to MIL-HDBK-217, Telcordia SR-332, FIDES and the other major standards.
- Integrated Logistics Support (ILS): Logistics engineering, technical documentation, training and supply chain: the support side of the product, planned rather than improvised.
Value by Audience
- For Investors: We are raising money to finish automating the analysis. Today the tools guide an engineer through it. The goal is software that reads the design and the system data itself, runs the checks, proposes fixes, and learns from what comes back from the field.
- For Electronic Design Managers: Design rules that are written down, auditable, and applied to every board. First-pass success you can measure, release gates you can enforce, and checks that run in CI so a problem you fixed stays fixed.
- For Hardware Design Engineers: The schematic problems that hide from a human reviewer — units, references, net naming, polarity, ESD and EMI — found in minutes. Derating and worst-case numbers while you are still choosing parts, and a report your design review can read without a translator.
- For RAMS & ILS Managers: FMECA, RBD/FTA, MTBF/MTTR and availability from one set of data instead of four. Failure modes traceable from the schematic up to system function and support documentation, and a dossier that holds up in a certification review or a bid.
Security & Data Handling
- On-premises and restricted-network deployments, and workflows that ask for as little of your data as the analysis actually needs. Customer design data is never used to train shared AI models.
EAR Approved
- BQR is approved under the U.S. Export Administration Regulations.
Key Achievements
- Innovation leadership: We were first to put reliability analysis inside the ECAD tool. Component stress analysis, automated FMEA generation and RCM-based maintenance planning followed.
- Project success: 4,500 projects. Defense contractors have cut reliability testing time, medical device manufacturers have cut field failures, and telecom operators have cut maintenance cost without giving up network availability.
- Thought leadership: Papers in the reliability journals, talks at the international conferences, and work on the standards themselves.
Global Presence
- Offices and partners across North America, Europe and Asia, so support is local wherever the project is.
Meet the Team
- Yizhak Bot: Founder & CEO
- Riky Bot: Founder & CFO
- Dr. Amir Segal: Engineering Manager
- Isaac Rosenstein: Software Manager
- Odette Ezra: Global Customers Relations Manager
- Anat Ben Haim: Local Customers Relations Manager
Our Partners
- We work with the ECAD vendors, with universities, and inside the industry bodies that write the standards.
- Technology Partners: Altium, OrCAD and Siemens EDA. The analysis runs in the tool your engineers already have open.
- Academic Partnerships: Joint research and teaching with universities.
- Industry Associations: Membership and standards work in the reliability associations.
How We Work With You
- Discovery & pilot: We agree what good looks like, then run one of your own designs through the tools.
- Deployment: ECAD integrations, rule sets and templates set up to your standards, not ours.
- Enablement: Training for the people who will use it: engineers, managers, RAMS and ILS teams.
- Support & success: Updates, and engineers who have done this before when you need one.
Join Us & Get in Touch
- Bring a schematic and your own RAMS assumptions. We will run it and show you what comes back, which is a shorter conversation than any brochure.