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Calculating an Average Infant Mortality Factor Over a Given Service Life Using the 217Plus™ Methodology

Calculating an Average Infant Mortality Factor Over a Given Service Life Using the 217Plus™ Methodology
Infant mortality is a term that is often used to describe early-life failures – that is, failures that occur due to premature excitation of failure mechanisms.  Such failures are typically due to inferior material (e.g., parts used in the manufacturing process…  Read More

Quanterion Solutions Joins the Ranks of Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champions

Quanterion Solutions Incorporated today announced its commitment to Cybersecurity Awareness Month, held annually in October, by registering as a 2021 Champion and joining a growing global effort to promote the awareness of online safety and privacy. The Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champions Program is a collaborative effort among businesses, government agencies, colleges and universities, associations, nonprofit…  Read More

September 23rd, 2021|Tags: , , , |

Five Reasons You Need to Hire an IT Consultant

Technology is accelerating at a breakneck speed, and it’s up to your company to keep pace with the trends to best position itself for success. But you’re not alone; an IT consultant can guide you through the decision-making necessary to enable your technologies – and ultimately your business – to operate at full capacity.

IT consultants…  Read More

September 21st, 2021|

National Insider Threat Awareness Month

September is the third annual National Insider Threat Awareness Month, which is a collaborative effort between the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), the National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF), the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Intelligence and Security, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security to emphasize…  Read More

September 16th, 2021|

Reliability Engineering Terms – Fault Tree Analysis

What is Fault Tree Analysis?
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a “top down” assessment of how a product or system failure (or other “undesired event”) can occur based on the behavior of lower-level functions, assemblies, parts, software, and human behavior.  The undesired event is evaluated through a set of intermediary fault states that, if present, would…  Read More

September 9th, 2021|

Fault Tree Analysis Resources

Fault Tree Analysis Video Training
Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
FMECAs and FTAs are popular methods for determining the impact of failures on the product or system. This module focuses on these two popular approaches to system logic analysis. The discussion will begin with a discussion of the MIL-STD-1629 approach…  Read More

September 9th, 2021|

Weibull Analysis Resources

Weibull Analysis Resources

Weibull Analysis Three-Day Training
Why do you need to take this course?
Weibull analysis is the starting point to problem-solving for most production reliability and maintainability issues. If you are an engineer, manager or engineering student, you will need to understand basic failure distributions, reliability engineering math, analyses, and data comparisons. Quanterion’s Weibull Analysis course…  Read More

August 26th, 2021|

Reliability Engineering Terms – Weibull Analysis

What is Weibull Analysis?
Weibull Analysis is a statistical analysis that is used to determine reliability characteristics and trends from field and/or test failure data. It allows decisions to be made based on a limited amount of data. The Weibull distribution can be fit to datasets exhibiting an increasing, decreasing, or constant failure rate, a unique…  Read More

August 26th, 2021|

Online Security Best Practices for Seniors

 

Did you know older adults are five times more vulnerable to tech support scams than other age groups? Tech support scams use scare tactics to persuade users to purchase an expensive “solution” to a nonexistent problem with a computer.

Unfortunately, senior citizens are most likely to relinquish large sums of money to hackers posed as technical…  Read More

August 23rd, 2021|

Professional Engineers Day

Happy Professional Engineers Day!

This annual awareness day was first started in 2016 to recognize licensed professional engineers, celebrate the contributions professional engineers make every day, and highlight what is involved in working as a professional engineer.

Whether you’re an engineering student interested in becoming licensed in the future, a professional interested in recertification or are simply…  Read More

August 4th, 2021|Tags: , , , , |