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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
Reliability Predictions: Parts Count, Part Stress, Pseudo Stress and Dormant
Reliability predictions are an important tool for making design trade-off decisions and estimating future system reliability. They are often used for making initial product support decisions such as how many spares are required to support fielded systems. Inaccurate predictions can lead to overly conservative designs and/or… Read More
Quanterion Solutions Incorporated announces the release of the PRO version of the Quanterion Automated Reliability Toolkit (QuART PRO). The new product represents the expansion of its QuART set of tools to now include more than twenty automated tools and advisors in the field of reliability engineering. The PRO version, introduced at $189, is intended for… Read More
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