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Quanterion Solutions Incorporated

About Quanterion Solutions Incorporated

Quanterion Solutions Incorporated, was formed with the mission to provide high quality QUANTitative engineering services to be used as critERION for critical decision making, hence the name Quanterion. Since its beginning in 2000, the company has expanded its technical capabilities beyond the original reliability, maintainability and quality to now also include knowledge management, software development/engineering, materials engineering, information technology and document management services. These technical capabilities are currently being applied in the defense, commercial, health care, energy and homeland defense markets.

Stress-Derating Calculator – (ECSS-Q-ST-30-11C Revision 1 Derating Standard) Released!

Quanterion Solutions’ Stress-Derating Spreadsheet Calculator – ECSS-Q-ST-30-11C Revision 1 Derating Standard is an Excel®-based software tool that allows the user to easily determine if a design is in compliance with the derating guidelines presented in the European Cooperation for Space Standardization document:

ECSS-Q-ST-30-11C Rev 1 – Derating – EEE components (4 October 2011)

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March 7th, 2016|
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RMQSI Digest – Feb 2016

    February 2016 Edition Recent Headlines: Defense: More Air Force Drones are Crashing Than Ever as Mysterious New Problems Emerge – Washington A record number of Air Force drones crashed in major accidents last year, documents show, straining the U.S. military’s fleet of robotic aircraft when it is in more demand than ever for counterterrorism missions in an expanding array…  Read More
February 4th, 2016|
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Announcing the Automated Text Reader for NPRD-2016, FMD-2016 and EPRD-2014!

The RMQSI Knowledge Center announces a new format in its popular reliability databook series of publications for those who prefer electronic media. The Databook Automated Text Reader provides a searchable text viewing capability for our NPRD-2016, FMD-2016 and EPRD-2014 Databooks as individual product offerings, or in any combination.          
January 12th, 2016|
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The RMQSI Knowledge Center will be at RAMS 2016 in Tucson on 25-28 Jan 2016!

The RMQSI Knowledge Center, operated by Quanterion Solutions, will have a booth at the upcoming RAMS 2016 in Tucson at the end of January. The Knowledge Center will be manning the Exhibit, so please stop by and say hello. We will be happy to discuss what our new Center is all about and what we…  Read More
January 8th, 2016|
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RMQSI Digest – Jan 2016

January 2016 Edition Recent Headlines: Defense: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. Awarded Contract Modification for the Sustainment of the F-22 Reliability and Maintainability Maturation Program (RAMMP) – Defense United Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney, East Hartford, Connecticut, has been awarded a $317,757,559 modification (P00160) to previously awarded contract FA8611-08-C-2896 for F119 engine sustainment. Raytheon Co is Being Awarded a Contract Modification…  Read More
January 6th, 2016|
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Confidence Bounds on the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for a Time-Truncated Test

There is a long standing discussion on how best to calculate the lower and upper confidence bounds on the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) for a time-truncated test (Type I Censoring) assuming that the times between failure are exponentially distributed (constant failure rate).  This Reliability Que discusses the use of the Chi-Square distribution for confidence…  Read More
January 5th, 2016|
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Quanterion Announces the 2016 Edition of the Failure Mode / Mechanism Distributions (FMD-2016) Publication

FMD-2016 contains field failure mode and mechanism distribution data on a variety of electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical parts and assemblies. This data can be used to assist in the performance of reliability analyses and assessments such as Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Compared to its predecessor FMD-2013, FMD-2016…  Read More
December 17th, 2015|
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Maintenance Planning with Wearout Failure Modes

This Reliability Que will discuss how Weibull analysis qualitative results showing a wearout failure mode can be utilized to quantitatively drive the decision making process in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs. RCM Basics As defined in NAVAIR 00-25-403, “Guidelines for the Naval Aviation Reliability-Centered Maintenance Process”, RCM is “an analytical process to determine appropriate failure management strategies,…  Read More
December 9th, 2015|
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RMQSI Digest – Dec 2015

  December 2015 Edition Recent Headlines: Defense: What is in an Effective RAM-C Rationale Report? – Defense The presentation “What is in an Effective RAM-C Rationale Report?” was made by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering (DASD/SE) at the 18th Annual NDIA Systems Engineering Conference (October 28, 2015). U.S. Navy’s Trident II D5 Missile Achieves…  Read More
December 2nd, 2015|
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Maintenance Planning with a Constant Failure Rate

This Reliability Que will discuss an example of how Weibull analysis qualitative results showing a constant failure rate affect the maintenance planning process. The qualitative results can be utilized to quantitatively drive the decision-making process in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs. RCM Basics As defined in NAVAIR 00-25-403, “Guidelines for the Naval Aviation Reliability-Centered Maintenance Process”, RCM…  Read More
November 18th, 2015|
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