On 7 Jan 2015, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense published a MEMORANDUM FOR THE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE to issue the new Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.02 “Operation of the Defense Acquisition System” and cancel the interim version that was released on 25 November 2013. According to the Memorandum, the just-released version implements… Read More
Quanterion Solutions announces the launch of its newly designed website at quanterion.com to coincide with the company’s 15th year anniversary. We invite you to take a look and welcome your comments.
This update to the popular 217Plus™ ‘Handbook of Reliability Prediction Models’ replaces the 2006 edition developed for the Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC). Available exclusively through Quanterion, 217Plus™:2015 contains new failure rate models covering photonics components and provides updates to the twelve original 217Plus™ component failure rate models based on new data. In addition to… Read More
Quanterion Solutions Incorporated has been awarded a $25,370,000 contract to provide services through August of 2019 for the operations of the Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center (DTRIAC) located at Kirtland Air Force Base NM and Fort Belvoir VA, with support from the company’s Utica NY headquarters. Services include conducting analytical activities, preserving and expanding… Read More
Interference Stress/Strength Analysis
In simplest terms, an item fails when a stress to which it is subjected exceeds the corresponding strength. In this sense, strength can be viewed as “resistance to failure.” Good design practice is such that the strength is always greater than the expected stress. The safety factor “η” can be defined in terms… Read More
Derating
Introduction
A brief overview of the importance of derating has been provided here, along with a sample determination of requirements calculations using Quanterion’s QuART-ER derating calculator and a description of the Stress-Derating Spreadsheet Calculator – SD-18. This topic is also covered in the Quanterion-authored Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC) publication “System Reliability Toolkit” and is included… Read More
Quanterion Solutions Incorporated, a Utica/Rome–based small technology business headquartered at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), is growing based on several recent contract awards:
Quanterion is a team member of two DoD Multiple Award Contracts (MACs), the Homeland Defense Technical Area Tasks (HD TATs) and the Defense Systems Technical Area Tasks (DS TATs). Under subcontract to MacAulay-Brown… Read More
Quanterion Solutions’ Stress-Derating Spreadsheet Calculator – SD-18 Derating Standard is an Excel-based software tool that allows the user to easily determine if a design is in compliance with the derating guidelines presented in NAVSEA SD-18 Part Requirement and Application Guide. After selecting the application environment and entering the ambient baseline temperature, the user then enters… Read More
Quanterion has been awarded a US Navy Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project to develop its Automated Software Solution for Extraction and Transformation System Simplification (ASSETS2) concept.
The ASSETS2 concept will provide a means to construct and populate a user-definable database that can be tailored to extract data/information from a number of sources, automatically… Read More
Quanterion is pleased to offer the second volume of guides in the popular RELease Series, with seven new titles covering additional topics in reliability engineering. The guides introduce readers to some of the most popular and effective reliability strategies and practices in an attempt to demystify the overall process of developing and producing reliable products and… Read More
