Reliability Approach Self-assessment Tool including Enhancement Recommendations
Reliability is a discriminating characteristic of products in today’s marketplace, yet many companies are unsure about what is important in designing and manufacturing reliability. They sometimes lack the specialized expertise and/or experience to use their resources wisely in “making reliability happen.”
Over the years, Quanterion’s engineers have often been tasked… Read More
The Department of Defense (DoD) is now putting new emphasis on making its systems and equipments more reliable through a series of initiatives where Quanterion Solutions is a key contributor.
Recognizing that its designs were falling short of their reliability goals, the DoD is cooperating with industry to:
develop a general government/industry reliability standard to replace MIL-STD-785… Read More
The Mohawk Valley Engineers Executive Council has awarded David Rose, Quanterion Solutions Manager of Advanced Programs, the 2008 E. Quint Carr Award for Engineering Excellence for his contributions to the field of corrosion prevention.
Mr. Rose has become recognized as a national leader in efforts to reduce the estimated $276B annual cost of corrosion. He is… Read More
Quanterion Solutions Inc. (QSI) will again take an active role in supporting the annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), which will be held in Las Vegas from January 28th through the 31st. QSI President Preston MacDiarmid and his team of David Nicholls, David Rose, Daniel Gonzales, and Eric MacDiarmid will attend the conference to exhibit… Read More
Quanterion Solutions Incorporated recently held a ribbon-cutting and luncheon at the State University of New York’s Institute of Technology (SUNYIT) to celebrate the “Grand Re-opening” of the Department of Defense’s Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), which is located at the Institute. The “re-opening” triples the size of the facility at SUNYIT, where the core operations… Read More
Design of Experiments for Reliability Improvement
Many times we want to improve Reliability (or other Quality characteristics) by way of increasing positive and reducing negative factor effects that influence performance.
For example, assume we want to increase the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) (or decrease the Mean Time To Reapir (MTTR)) of a product to improve its… Read More
Four companies and two individuals who have played roles in the Mohawk Valley’s economic growth have been named winners of the 2007 Leading EDGE Awards.
Award winners are:
Quanterion Solutions Incorporated of Utica;
Bartell Machinery Systems LLC of Lee;
Goodrich Power Transmission Systems of Rome;
PLC Trenching Company LLC of Clinton;
Nicholas O. Matt, former EDGE board chair; and
Harry A. Hertline,… Read More
Test Samples: How Many Are Needed?
For demonstrating product reliability the question of how many test samples are needed to be “X” percent confident of having met a reliability objective often comes up. Let’s say that manufacturer is going to produce 5,000 rooftop car carriers and is willing to tolerate roughly 100 returns over the next… Read More
Quanterion Solutions announces that David Rose is the latest addition to Quanterion’s staff in the position of Manager of Advanced Programs. Rose joins the staff after ten years at Alion Science and Technology, eight of which were spent as the Director of the Department of Defense Advanced Materials and Processes Technology Analysis Center (AMPTIAC) (recently… Read More
Quanterion Solutions, announces the award of an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Rome Research Site contract “Integrated Information Management Technical, Engineering, and Management Support (ITEMS).” Under the 36-month award of $1.56 million, Quanterion will provide engineering and software services to the Information Directorate of AFRL in Rome, NY
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