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Reliability Engineering Terms – Reliability Centered Maintenance

What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a systematic approach to developing a cost-effective maintenance strategy based on knowledge of how a product/system fails (random, wearout, etc.) and the safety, mission and financial consequences of failure.

Scheduled inspections/replacement, condition-based maintenance and periodic overhaul are used in combination as part of an effective RCM strategy.…  Read More

June 3rd, 2026|

Reliability Centered Maintenance Resources

Reliability Centered Maintenance Resources
September 2026 Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Open Training
Join us this September in Albuquerque to learn how to develop an RCM program at your company!

The course covers a brief introduction to the concepts and terminology used in RCM, then expands into the detailed processes associated with RCM planning and analysis, RCM implementation/task packaging…  Read More

June 3rd, 2026|

Quanterion Awarded Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Contract

UTICA, N.Y. (April 2026) – Quanterion Solutions Incorporated, a defense contractor based in Utica, NY, was recently awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA).

The contract explores the feasibility of modernizing national defense platform software leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Quanterion will be spearheading research, analysis…  Read More

April 13th, 2026|

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.
What’s the…  Read More

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’s 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 deadline to register for Reliability 201 is May 28, 2026. Email reliability@quanterion.com if you need more time to register.
Quanterion offers open and on-site reliability engineering training attended by a wide variety of engineers from military…  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|