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September 2026 Reliability Engineering Open Training

Learn How to Slash Your Design and Maintainability Costs, Meet Reliability Requirements, and Reduce Operational Downtime
Sign up today for Reliability Centered Maintenance or Weibull Analysis!
Register today for hands-on reliability engineering training to be hosted Sept. 15-17, 2026 in Southwest USA (location TBD) to introduce you or your employee(s) to reliability engineering in Reliability Centered Maintenance…  Read More

March 23rd, 2026|

Reliability Program Definition Resources

Reliability Program Resources
Reliability Program Consulting
Quanterion’s experienced team of reliability engineers can help you develop and optimize your reliability program.

Specifically, we can:

Tailor a reliability program for a specific product or product line over its entire life cycle
Perform an independent, objective assessment of your organization’s approach to reliability
Develop internal reliability policies, procedures, and knowledge…  Read More

March 3rd, 2026|

Reliability Engineering Terms – Reliability Program Definition

What is a Reliability Program?
An effective reliability program defines optimal activities that will maximize the likelihood that a design will meet or exceed customer reliability requirements and company cost and schedule objectives. It includes realistic reliability requirements/goals, organizational responsibilities, holistic Design for Reliability (DFR) principles, and suitably tailored analysis, test and customer support approaches.
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March 3rd, 2026|

Warranty Planning Resources

 
Warranty Planning Consulting, Data and Training Resources

 
Warranty Planning Tool and Book

To learn more about warranty planning, visit Quanterion’s reliability engineering term page.
Do you have a reliability project? Our team of reliability engineers have been offering consulting for decades! Call us at (315) 732-0097 or email reliability@quanterion.com to reach a reliability engineer.
View Quanterion Solutions’ warranty planning resources including training and publications. 
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February 5th, 2026|

Reliability Engineering Terms – Warranty Planning

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

February 5th, 2026|

Quanterion Announces 2026 Reliability Training Schedule

Introductory to Advanced Reliability Engineering Training
Register today for the next 2026 Open Training session, Reliability 201: Quantitative Reliability Analysis!
Hurry, the early bird discount deadline for Reliability 201 is April 17, 2026.
Quanterion offers open and on-site reliability engineering training attended by a wide variety of engineers from military branches, aerospace and defense companies, and manufacturers. Training covers introductory…  Read More

January 22nd, 2026|

What Is Surrogate Reliability Data and Why Use It?

Surrogate Reliability Data
Surrogate reliability data is summarized data from field testing that is not performed in-house. Often, the data will estimate the failures under specified operating hours/miles under certain conditions for particular components that are either the exact match or a similar part an engineer must assess to perform a reliability analysis.

This article is a…  Read More

October 28th, 2025|

Reliability Engineering Terms – Fault Tree Analysis

What is Fault Tree Analysis?
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a “top down” assessment of how a product or system failure (or other “undesired event”) can occur based on the behavior of lower-level functions, assemblies, parts, software, and human behavior.  The undesired event is evaluated through a set of intermediary fault states that, if present, would…  Read More

October 14th, 2025|

Fault Tree Analysis Resources

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is Covered in Reliability 101: Introduction to Reliability Engineering
Register for Reliability 101: Introduction to Reliability Analysis by Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025!
Reliability 101 is a foundational course to understanding basic reliability engineering principles and how to implement these principles during product design, manufacturing, test and field support. This course will develop your…  Read More

October 14th, 2025|

Reliability Data Collection and Analysis Resources

Reliability Data Collection and Analysis Resources

 

Data
Reliability Online Automated Databook System (ROADS)
The Reliability Online Automated Databook System (ROADS) is a subscription that provides customized access to all the Quanterion Databooks: Nonelectronic Parts Reliability Data (NPRD), Electronic Parts Reliability Data (EPRD) and/or Failure Modes / Mechanisms Distribution (FMD).

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Nonelectronic Parts Reliability Data – NPRD-2023
The 2023 Edition of…  Read More

September 22nd, 2025|