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Which Variables Are Critical to Field Reliability? Design of Experiments (DOE) Can Help Optimize Your Design

Which Variables Are Critical to Field Reliability? Design of Experiments (DOE) Can Help Optimize Your Design
Engineers are often faced with the problem of optimizing a process that includes a number of input variables. It could be an analysis of a manufacturing process, or even an analysis of a business process. They’re often challenged to find…  Read More

August 26th, 2002|

Which Design is More Reliable? Weibull Provides Answers!

Which Design is More Reliable? Weibull Provides Answers!
Weibull Analysis is often used to analyze field or test failure data to understand how items are failing and what specific underlying failure distribution is being followed by failures that occur. One of our staff engineers was recently responsible for making a vendor recommendation for a limited life…  Read More

June 26th, 2002|

How Complete is Your Reliability Tool Set?

How Complete is Your Reliability Tool Set?
Whether you’re developing consumer electronics in a competitive market or ground-based radars for the Government, there are lots of tools to have in your arsenal to help make your designs reliable and maintainable. Using a broad definition of tools, your arsenal should include design rules and procedures, analysis methodologies,…  Read More

April 26th, 2002|

MacDiarmid Receives Engineering Award

At the annual meeting of the Mohawk Valley Engineers Executive Council at the Hotel Utica, Quanterion Solutions President Preston MacDiarmid was presented the prestigious E. Quint Carr Award for outstanding contributions to the field of engineering. MacDiarmid was recognized for his accomplishments over a 30-year career in the field of reliability engineering at the Rome…  Read More

January 11th, 2002|Tags: |

Is Asset Management For You?

Is Asset Management For You?
What is Asset Management?
Asset Management is being called by many the “final frontier” of achieving major gains in operating effectiveness, corporate profitability and shareholder value. It has been reported that North American industry could recover $200M to $500M annually through improved physical Asset Management. To demonstrate the critical nature of managing…  Read More

December 26th, 2001|

Quanterion Part of International Safeguards Workshop

Quanterion Solutions, a Mohawk Valley small engineering consulting business, is an invited participant of the International Safeguards Workshop held October 15-18 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Quanterion will brief an international audience in several areas of design and testing for high reliability. The workshop is sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

October 15th, 2001|Tags: |

Making Sense Out of the Reliability Prediction Business

Making Sense Out of the Reliability Prediction Business
Reliability Predictions are commonly used in the development of products and systems to compare alternative design approaches and to assess progress toward reliability design goals. They’re often criticized as not being accurate forecasts of field reliability performance because they don’t usually account for all the factors that cause…  Read More

August 1st, 2001|

Quanterion Solutions Announced

Corporation President, Preston MacDiarmid, announced the formation of QUANTERION Solutions Incorporated, a business dedicated to quality QUANTitative services as critERION for critical decision making, particularly in reliability, maintainability and quality. The business brings together four principals with more than eighty-five collective years in engineering analyses oriented toward improved products and systems.

MacDiarmid, who left his Vice…  Read More

January 29th, 2000|Tags: |