Under the company’s operation of the Data and Analysis Center for Software (DACS), Quanterion researched Cloud Computing and published Critical Review and Technology Assessment on the subject. While primarily focusing on the Government use, the document provides valuable insight to commercial parties as well. “Cloud Computing: In the Government” provides a general understanding of the… Read More
Today’s economic climate dictates that both commercial products and military systems last longer, often significantly beyond the life for which they were designed. As a result, managers, designers and maintainers need a better understanding of the effects of longer life in terms of failure modes and mechanisms and mitigation methods. Under its day-to-day operation of… Read More
Quanterion announces the release of its free Web-Accessible Repository of Physics-based Models (WARP) website. WARP provides systems engineers, design engineers, reliability practitioners and the research community at large with a centralized resource for more than one hundred physics-based models, and opportunities for registered members to become part of a rapidly growing community of model submitters… Read More
Quanterion announces the publication of a valuable guidance in the application of reliability growth concepts in improving products and systems. “Achieving System Reliability Growth Through Robust Design and Test” offers new definitions of how failures can be characterized, and how those new definitions can be used to develop metrics that will quantify how effective a… Read More
QuART ER, the latest version of QuART, has just been released. QuART ER updates more than 10 tools and adds more than 15 new tools to the tool set available in QuART PRO, including the “Ask a Quanterion Expert” function that allows users to direct their reliability questions to an ASQ certified reliability expert at Quanterion.
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The Air Force 55th Contracting Squadron at Offutt AFB, NE has awarded a contract to Utica’s Quanterion Solutions Incorporated to operate its Data and Analysis Center for Software Basic Center Operations (DACS BCO). Under the $33.9M contract, Quanterion will serve as a Center of Excellence for the DoD in Software Engineering collecting, analyzing and disseminating… Read More
David Nicholls, a key member of Quanterion’s staff over its first ten years will be very busy at this year’s International Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) in San Jose, California presenting two technical papers and serving as an invited panelist. The RAMS is the largest international symposium of reliability, maintainability and quality engineering every year… Read More
Ten-year old Utica-based Quanterion Solutions Incorporated continues to grow with the addition of key staff members. Company President, Preston MacDiarmid, announced that Thomas McGibbon and Paul Wagner have joined the company that provides reliability and quality engineering and software/database development services to the government and commercial industry.
Thomas McGibbon has joined Quanterion as Director of Software… Read More
How Good Is Your Reliability Approach?
Product reliability is an important discriminator in today’s global marketplace but does your organization know how it’s doing compared to competitors in terms of designing and building reliability into its products? Could/should you be doing more “upfront” reliability activities to improve customer satisfaction, to reduce warranty costs, and to reduce… Read More
Solving the Complex RBD-Series Parallel System with a Keystone Component
The general form of this type of reliability block diagram has two series circuits in a parallel arrangement combined through a center or “keystone” unit. You are often given the reliability of each block and asked to calculate the reliability of the circuit.
For example let’s say… Read More
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