Quanterion Solutions, a small business engineering consulting firm based in Utica, NY, has been awarded three recent contracts. Company President Preston MacDiarmid announced that Brookhaven National Laboratories (BNL) has awarded a 3-year engineering support services contract to Quanterion to support itsInternational Safeguards Project Office and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Under the program, the company… Read More
Quanterion Solutions of Utica was invited to address the members of the Business Council of New York on its success in building a successful new business at the 2ndAnnual Homeland Security Conference. Quanterion President Preston MacDiarmid briefed an audience of several hundred in Albany on January 18th along with speakers from the federal and state… Read More
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The IACs have been consolidated since this page was published. None of these IACs are currently in operation.
Last month we introduced you to the Department of Defense (DoD) Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), formerly known as the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), as a valuable resource for expertise and data/information in… Read More
Quanterion Solutions is a major part of a Wyle Laboratories led team awarded a five year $28 million dollar contract by DISA to operate the DoD Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC). The 37- year old operation, previously called the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), is the DoD’s center of excellence in data, information, and expertise related… Read More
Reliability Certification
Starting salaries for engineers graduating from college this spring will be in the $50K neighborhood and even higher for the top students, as well as those with specialized experience. The degrees are typically electrical, electronics, mechanical, materials, civil, industrial, computer, and so on. Seldom is there a “reliability engineering” graduate. There are a few… Read More
Quanterion Solutions announces the release of a suite of engineering software tools called QuART for Quanterion Automated Reliability Toolkit. The suite represents the automation of many of the tools documented in a publication they previously coauthored, the Reliability Toolkit: Commercial Practices Edition. For more information or to purchase, Click here.
Mission Reliability and Logistics Reliability: A Design Paradox
The goal of improving system reliability often presents a design paradox; “mission” reliability cannot be increased without simultaneously decreasing “logistics” reliability. When faced with the challenge of a system that has inadequate reliability to meet specification requirements, hardware redundancy is often implemented, leading to an improvement in one… Read More
Probability and Statistics for Reliability: An Introduction
Painful as it is to many of us, the generally desirable product characteristic Reliability is heavily dependent on Probability and Statistics for measuring and describing its characteristics. This edition of Reliability Ques will only be the tip of the iceberg in this regard. Let’s start with a few basics:
Better Reliability Predictions Using Experience Data
There are many approaches that can be used to predict the reliability of an item. Sometimes when asked to provide a “quick estimate” of an item’s reliability, the use of field experience is overlooked, or if no failures have occurred, overly conservative estimates are made by assuming one failure. This… Read More
Reliability: Costly, or Cost Effective?
There are those who would argue that the costs of reliability activities associated with developing new products have little payoff. Whether we’re talking about commercial products or military systems, we don’t agree. Concepts like Life Cycle Costs, Total Ownership Costs, Reliability-based Maintenance, Performance-Based Logistics, and others clearly recognize the contribution of… Read More
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