The U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Center at Restone Arsenal, Alabama has awarded Quanterion Solutions of Utica a $726,000 two year contract to develop a Product Reliability On-line Tools Collection (PROTOCOL) software engineering environment. The award, part of the federal government Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was based on a competitive procurement and… Read More
System Spares – What’s the “Right” Answer?
Manufacturers are often faced with questions such as:
How often will my system fail?
How many spare parts should I stock?
How confident am I that I will have enough spare parts?
We recently had a customer that had to answer these and other questions pertaining to warranty and system… Read More
Using Accelerated Life Testing to Assess Warranty Risk
During a recent project, a question arose about the feasibility of providing a ten year warranty for a new system. The system consisted of a proven electronic assembly and 40 newly designed hybrid electronic modules. Warranty costs could be significant if reliability risks were not fully understood. The… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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