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
Environmental Stress Screening: Basic Steps in Choosing an ESS Profile
Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) is the process of exposing a newly manufactured product to environmental stresses in order to identify and eliminate latent defects introduced during the manufacturing process. It is part of the manufacturing process and is therefore performed on 100% of the items manufactured.… Read More
Reliability Approach Self-assessment Tool including Enhancement Recommendations
Reliability is a discriminating characteristic of products in today’s marketplace, yet many companies are unsure about what is important in designing and manufacturing reliability. They sometimes lack the specialized expertise and/or experience to use their resources wisely in “making reliability happen.”
Over the years, Quanterion’s engineers have often been tasked… Read More
The Department of Defense (DoD) is now putting new emphasis on making its systems and equipments more reliable through a series of initiatives where Quanterion Solutions is a key contributor.
Recognizing that its designs were falling short of their reliability goals, the DoD is cooperating with industry to:
develop a general government/industry reliability standard to replace MIL-STD-785… Read More
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