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Quanterion Announces the Release of its NanoTech Connect Website

The NanoTech Connect Website provides:

Centralized nanotechnology, nanoscience and nanoengineering resources for researchers, engineers, administrators and students
Promotion of technical, industry, administrative and government organizations in New York State and across the country
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April 25th, 2016|

New Publication Guide for Reliable Human-Machine Systems Just Released!

Quanterion Solutions, in collaboration with noted domain expert Kenneth P. LaSala, PhD, is proud to announce the availability of the Second Edition of his “A Practical Guide to Developing Reliable Human-Machine Systems” publication. This publication has four objectives:

Motivate designers to consider the impact of humans early in the development of systems and processes, when the…  Read More

April 8th, 2016|

Stress-Derating Calculator – (ECSS-Q-ST-30-11C Revision 1 Derating Standard) Released!

Quanterion Solutions’ Stress-Derating Spreadsheet Calculator – ECSS-Q-ST-30-11C Revision 1 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 the European Cooperation for Space Standardization document:

ECSS-Q-ST-30-11C Rev 1 – Derating – EEE components (4 October 2011)

After selecting the application environment…  Read More

March 7th, 2016|

CSIAC Completes Static Tests and Flight Training for Autonomous UAS Command and Control

As part of an ongoing Core Analysis Task (CAT), the CSIAC successfully completed the static testing of an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Experimentation System (AUES) for autonomous UAS Command and Control (C2). In addition, the CSIAC team also completed pilot training in preparation for the live flight testing of the Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk…  Read More

February 4th, 2016|

Announcing the Automated Text Reader for NPRD-2016, FMD-2016 and EPRD-2014!

The RMQSI Knowledge Center announces a new format in its popular reliability databook series of publications for those who prefer electronic media. The Databook Automated Text Reader provides a searchable text viewing capability for our NPRD-2016, FMD-2016 and EPRD-2014 Databooks as individual product offerings, or in any combination.

 

 

 

 

January 12th, 2016|

Confidence Bounds on the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for a Time-Truncated Test

Confidence Bounds on the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for a Time-Truncated Test
There is a long standing discussion on how best to calculate the lower and upper confidence bounds on the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for a time-truncated test (Type I Censoring) assuming that the times between failure are exponentially distributed (constant failure rate).…  Read More

January 5th, 2016|

Quanterion Announces the 2016 Edition of the Failure Mode / Mechanism Distributions (FMD-2016) Publication

FMD-2016 contains field failure mode and mechanism distribution data on a variety of electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical parts and assemblies. This data can be used to assist in the performance of reliability analyses and assessments such as Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).

Compared to its predecessor FMD-2013, FMD-2016…  Read More

December 17th, 2015|

Maintenance Planning with Wearout Failure Modes

Maintenance Planning with Wearout Failure Modes
This Reliability Que discusses how Weibull analysis qualitative results showing a wearout failure mode can be utilized to quantitatively drive the decision making process in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs.
RCM Basics
As defined in NAVAIR 00-25-403, “Guidelines for the Naval Aviation Reliability-Centered Maintenance Process”, RCM is “an analytical process to determine…  Read More

December 9th, 2015|

Quanterion Organizes Secure UAS Communications Panel for MILCOM 2015

Quanterion attended MILCOM 2015 in Tampa Florida, the premier international conference for military communications, and chaired the conference’s Secure UAS Communications Technical Panel. Dr. Paul Losiewicz, Quanterion’s Senior Scientific Advisor, organized and moderated the panel discussion which addressed communications security as it relates to the command and control (C2) of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). The…  Read More

December 4th, 2015|

Maintenance Planning with a Constant Failure Rate

Maintenance Planning with a Constant Failure Rate
This Reliability Que will discuss an example of how Weibull analysis qualitative results showing a constant failure rate affect the maintenance planning process. The qualitative results can be utilized to quantitatively drive the decision-making process in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs.
RCM Basics
As defined in NAVAIR 00-25-403, “Guidelines for the…  Read More

November 18th, 2015|