Quanterion Solutions Incorporated has years of experience in every facet of reliability and maintainability engineering for commercial and government customers including such classes of activities as Reliability and Maintainability:

• Program Approaches

• Design

• Analyses

• Testing

• Data and Information

• Documentation

• Software Tools/Databases

• Training

• Other Activities

Reliability and Maintainability Program Approaches

• Authored reliability guidance documents for international organizations responsible for equipment procurement to monitoring of safety critical facilities.
• Authored reliability and maintainability program guidance sections of widely used publications such as "Program Managers' Guide to Reliability and Maintainability", "Reliability Toolkit: Commercial Practices Edition" (several versions) and "Blueprints for Product Reliability."
• Authored reliability processes/practices and component reliability strategy documentation for military/commercial manufacturer. 
• Developed R&M program approaches for complex AF and FAA systems and equipment and evaluated approaches proposed by offerors responding to RFPs under Performance Based Requirements. 
• Audited state-of-the-art equipment designer's reliability approaches/practices.
• Advised commercial electronics manufacturers regarding use of the most cost effective means to develop reliable products.
• Provided R&M program expertise to numerous large hardware development efforts, including ASR-9 Radar, ARSR-4 Radar, Voice Switching and Control System (VSCS), Mode-S Radar, Advanced Tactical Surveillance Radar, 60K Aircraft Loader, JTIDS, and several classified programs.
  

Reliability and Maintainability Design

• Evaluated component application for commercial power generating equipment and state-of-the art commercial communications systems.
• Performed independent reliability assessment of damage and preparation of material to be used for expert witness testimony.
• Authored reliability design guidelines for commercial manufacturers.
• Performed stress analysis on different types of commercial designs to target areas for reliability improvement.

Reliability and Maintainability Analyses

• Developed 20+ tool desktop suite of automated reliability techniques marketed to R&M community as "QuART" (Quanterion Automated Reliability Toolkit).
• Performed failure modes and effects analyses (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA) for safety critical circuits on new regional jet aircraft.
• Performed reliability predictions for Navy submarine Towed Array sonar system, commercial communications equipment, and several different subsystems being placed on new regional commuter jets.
• Performed reliability predictions for state-of-the-art telecommunications manufacturer as a means of using reliability as market discriminated feature of their product.
• Taught Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) training courses at numerous commercial and military organizations.
• Developed specialized Weibull Analysis tools for tracking and reporting field reliability of specialized Air Force systems.
• Developed Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) tool for use in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
• Developed maintainability prediction tool to be used in an integrated R&M analysis software suite.
• Developed new PRISM automated reliability prediction tool being marketed by Reliability Analysis Center.
• Managed the most widely used reliability prediction methodology, MIL-HDBK-217 "Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment", for the DoD for ten years.
• Authored "Fault Tree Analysis Application Guide" currently being marketed by the Reliability Analysis Center.
• Formulated and managed research studies to develop component failure rate models for operating and non-operating reliability, as well as to assess the impact of operational effects on reliability.
• Performed parts stress reliability predictions, FMECAs, FTAs, and identification of reliability critical items on commercial and Army anti-chemical-biological warfare electronics and non-electronics equipment and smoke sensor electronics.
• Performed detailed reliability evaluations on a ship decoy system, tactical military communications system, wireless telephone equipment, medical diagnostic equipment and a people mover door system.
• Developed warranty analysis and tradeoff tool.

Reliability and Maintainability Testing

• Developing reliability test plans for very high reliability communications equipment.
• Authored award winning report  Reliability Growth Testing Effectiveness.
• Defined Accelerated Reliability Test plans and Environmental Stress Screening options for leading optoelectronics manufacturer.
• Developed tailored Reliability Qualification Test plans for dozens of AF and FAA systems, including monitoring of the tests and analysis/interpretation of the test results.
• Evaluated test results. on the Fighter Data Link program and co-authored a report on the findings.
• Applied Design Of Experiments (DOE) test approaches to assess the impact of environmental and design factors on operational failures on the field reliability of automotive components.

Reliability and Maintainability Data and Information

• Developed Prototype Model for Army Product Reliability On-line Tools Collextion (PROTOCOL) as an expert system/knowledge management environment for reliability practitioner's use in defining and carrying out tailored reliability programs.
• Managed multimillion dollar DoD Reliability Analysis Center for 10 years.
• Coauthored widely used reliability databooks including "Nonelectronic Part Reliability Data", "Electronic Part Reliability Data", "Failure Mode/Mechanism Distributions", and "Electrostatic Discharge Susceptibility Data."
• Surveyed availability of Enterprise Asset Management and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems for use in tracking field reliability of commercial products and military systems.
• Developed web-based tools for collection of vendor part qualification data as a means of eliminating duplication of qualification efforts.

Reliability and Maintainability Documentation

• Authored reliability guidance documents for international organizations responsible for equipment procurement to monitor safety critical facilities.
• Authored reliability and maintainability program guidance sections of widely used publications such as "Program Managers' Guide to Reliability and Maintainability", "Reliability Toolkit: Commercial Practices Edition" (several versions) and "Blueprints for Product Reliability."
• Managed the most widely used reliability prediction methodology, MIL-HDBK-217 "Reliability Prediction of Electronic Equipment", for the DoD for ten years.
• Authored "Fault Tree Analysis Application Guide" currently being marketed by the Reliability Analysis Center.
• Authored award winning guidebook "Reliability Growth Testing Effectiveness."
• Coauthored widely used reliability databooks including "Nonelectronic Part Reliability Data", "Electronic Part Reliability Data", "Failure Mode/Mechanism Distributions", and "Electrostatic Discharge Susceptibility Data."
• Publish quarterly "Reliability Ques" informing readers of the most effective R/M/Q tools, proactices, and approaches."

Reliability and Maintainability Software Tools/Databases

• Developed custom software for data acquisition, analysis and tracking of a pharmaceutical manufacturing process.
• Developed specialized Weibull Analysis tools for tracking field reliability of specialized Air Force systems.
• Developed Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) tool for use in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
• >Developed maintainability prediction tool to be used in an integrated R&M analysis software suite.
• Developed PRISM automated reliability prediction tool being marketed by Reliability Analysis Center.
• Designed and developed database, user interface, and data conversion for a study to establish time degradation of electronic timing assemblies of a U.S. Army Nuclear Projectile.
• Developed a Windows based product to automate Reliability Analysis Center data publications (NPRD-95, EPRD-97, FMD-97, and VZAP-95).
• Designed and developed database, web based user interface, data conversion function (from multiple sources), and customer interface in establishing a Data Sharing Consortium to collect, maintain, and disseminate reliability/qualification data for electronic OEM manufacturers.
• Developed commercial QuART software described above.
• Developed browser based PROTOCOL environment described above.

Reliability and Maintainability Training

• Provided in-house training at numerous companies in FMECA, FTA and provided open registration training in reliability prediction techniques at an international conference.
• Regulary present "Reliability 101" 3-day training course in open registration and on-site formats.
• Developing short courses in Reliability Modeling and Prediction and Reliability Analyses for open registration and on-site presentation.
• Developed and market REPERTOIRE set of 5 on-line reliability courses structured to follow the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer Body of Knowledge.
• Developed and offer free "Lunchtime Learning" web based mini courses in "Six Sigma", "Design of Experiments", "Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)", Weibull Analysis" and "Reliability as a Profit Driver."

Other Activities

In addition to the reliability and maintainability activities described above, we also have extensive experience as follows:

• Proposal Management We have served as Capture Manager, Technical Proposal Manager, Lead Technical Writer and Cost Proposal Manager for complex multimillion dollar government proposals involving written as well as oral content. We have also managed/authored smaller Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) proposals as well a unsolicited White Papers and responses to Broad Agency Announcements (BAA) to government and commercial organizations.
• Independent Reviews/Analyses We have performed independent reviews of competitive proposals, business operations and product designs for a variety of organizations. These include gold, green, blue, pink and red teams on major government proposals.
• Technical Writing We have authored manuals, guidebooks, handbooks, toolkits, quick reference guides, newsletter, training courses, slide rules, technical and cost proposals, help files, web content and other forms of knowledge dissemination media as hard copy, CD-ROM, or web media.
• Software/Databases While the experience cited above deals primarily with reliability and maintainability databases and tools, the same software expertise can be applied to other subjects and disciplines. We're experienced in:
• Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, and NT, Linux, UNIX, MS-DOS, OS/2, VAX/VMS 
• Programming Languages:  C, C++ , COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, Unix shell 
• Development Languages:  Delphi, Visual FoxPro
• DBMS:  mySQL, dBASE, Informix 4GL/SQL/CGI, InterBase, Oracle
• Other Tools: BETAsoft Thermal Analysis, Lotus 1-2-3, MathCAD, MicroCAP Circuit Simulation Software, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Publisher, and Visio), Front Page, Adobe Acrobat, Doc-toHelp, Relex, ALTA, MPP Maintainability Prediction Program, OrCAD SDT III Schematic Design Software, Paradox, Quattro Pro Spreadsheet, RPP Reliability Prediction Program, Relational Report Writer, ReportSmith, Spice Circuit Analysis Software, STATGRAPHICS; MathCAD, RAPTOR, QuART, Minitab, XpertRule Miner, Moodle, iCreate, ViewletBuilder and others.