What is Warranty Planning?
Warranties are a formal commitment to deliver (or require delivery of) reliable products/systems. They identify what is warranted, warranty length, what scenarios are/are not covered, and liability.
Warranty planning should include people, process and product costs. Engineers developing warranty plans for their products and systems must be continuously aware that even warranted items… Read More
What is Reliability Data Collection and Analysis?
Data collection and analysis facilitates an understanding of field operational use profiles and environmental stress data and is critical for ensuring design/process robustness. Collection and analysis of failure data to root failure cause identification and mitigation is critical to ensure product/process reliability growth and success over its life cycle.
What’s… Read More
Software Reliability In-Person Training
Register today for a Software Failure Modes Effects Analysis (FMEA) course hosted Tuesday, Nov. 4 through Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 at the DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Orlando – Disney Springs in Lake Buena Vista, FL.
If you’re involved in software design or development, you must consider potential failure modes in the software. This… Read More
What is Software Reliability?
Software reliability is the probability that software will operate failure-free for a specified period of time in a specified environment. It is an important contributing factor impacting system reliability (which includes hardware and human reliability). Various approaches can be used to improve the reliability of software with an appropriate balance between development… Read More
What is Lifetime Extension Management?
Military and industrial products and systems may be required to operate or function significantly longer than what for which they were originally designed, such as years, miles, cycles, etc. Lifetime Extension Assessment addresses the potential risks and possible solutions associated with extending the lives of products, systems and processes.
What’s the payoff?
Informed… Read More
What is Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis?
A Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) is a “bottom up” assessment of the design of a system (hardware, software and/or process) to determine the consequences of a failure on the overall performance or effectiveness of the system. An FMECA can be appropriately tailored and performed at… Read More
FMECA Resources for Any Engineer or Manager
Training
Reliability 201: Quantitative Reliability Analysis
Sign up for a related course: Reliability 201: Quantitative Reliability Analysis, to be hosted June 3-5, 2025 in Virginia Beach!
If you need to know the basics of quantitative reliability analyses as they apply to developing and fielding better products and systems, this course is for… Read More
What is Reliability Modeling and Prediction?
A reliability model mathematically defines the interdependencies between hardware/software/human elements and their combined contributions to failure. A prediction calculates failure rates using that model so that a reliability metric can be quantified to assess design tradeoffs, and as an estimate of operational reliability after a product is delivered.
What’s the payoff?
The… Read More
Training
Reliability 301: RAM Modeling I
Sign up for our most requested course: Reliability 301: RAM Modeling I, which will be hosted Nov. 14-16, 2023 in Orlando, FL!
Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) modeling uses a mathematical process to statistically predict the time-to-failure of a product or system. This technique can result in far-reaching cost savings and labor… Read More
Reliability Physics/Physics-of-Failure Analysis Resources
Physics-of-Failure Analysis Publications
Physics-of-Failure Based Handbook of Microelectronic Systems
This handbook is intended for use by designers of highly complex electronic systems for military, aerospace, medical, telecommunications or any industry where an accurate assessment of reliability is needed and can be verified through testing.
Physics-of-Failure Modeling
The traditional approach to product reliability has largely been based… Read More