Quanterion Launches New Website
Quanterion Solutions announces the launch of its newly designed website at quanterion.com to coincide with the company’s 15th year anniversary. We invite you to take a look and welcome your comments.
217Plus: 2015 System Reliability Assessment Methodology Released!
This update to the popular 217Plus™ ‘Handbook of Reliability Prediction Models’ replaces the 2006 edition developed for the Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC). Available exclusively through Quanterion, 217Plus™:2015 contains new failure rate models covering photonics components and provides updates to the twelve original 217Plus™ component failure rate models based on new data. In addition to… Read More
Quanterion Awarded $25.3M Contract for DTRIAC
Quanterion Solutions Incorporated has been awarded a $25,370,000 contract to provide services through August of 2019 for the operations of the Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center (DTRIAC) located at Kirtland Air Force Base NM and Fort Belvoir VA, with support from the company’s Utica NY headquarters. Services include conducting analytical activities, preserving and expanding… Read More
Interference Stress/Strength Analysis
In simplest terms, an item fails when a stress to which it is subjected exceeds the corresponding strength. In this sense, strength can be viewed as “resistance to failure”. Good design practice is such that the strength is always greater than the expected stress. The safety factor “η” can be defined in terms of strength… Read More
Derating
The practice of limiting electrical, thermal and mechanical stresses on parts to levels below their specified ratings is called derating. MIL-STD-721C offers the following definitions of derating:
Using an item in such a way that applied stresses are below rated values
The lowering of the rating of an item in one stress field to allow an increase… Read More
Quanterion Contracts Increase Personnel Needs
Quanterion Solutions Incorporated, a Utica/Rome–based small technology business headquartered at the SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly), is growing based on several recent contract awards:
The company is part of a new DoD Center of Excellence, the Defense Systems Information Analysis Center (DSIAC), under an Air Force contract which is the consolidation of six legacy DoD Centers… Read More
Quanterion Releases Stress-Derating Spreadsheet Calculator
Quanterion Solutions’ Stress-Derating Spreadsheet Calculator – SD-18 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 NAVSEA SD-18 Part Requirement and Application Guide. After selecting the application environment and entering the ambient baseline temperature, the user then enters… Read More
Quanterion Awarded Navy SBIR Phase I Project
Quanterion has been awarded a US Navy Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) project to develop its Automated Software Solution for Extraction and Transformation System Simplification (ASSETS2) concept.
The ASSETS2 concept will provide a means to construct and populate a user-definable database that can be tailored to extract data/information from a number of sources, automatically… Read More
Quanterion Offers Volume II of Popular RELease Series
Quanterion is pleased to offer the second volume of guides in the popular RELease Series, with seven new titles covering additional topics in reliability engineering. The guides introduce readers to some of the most popular and effective reliability strategies and practices in an attempt to demystify the overall process of developing and producing reliable products and… Read More
Quanterion Employee Receives Patent for Software Used by FAA to Model National Airspace
Dr. Paul Losiewicz, et al have been awarded United States Patent: 8538673 on 9/17/2013 for a software modeling capability that the FAA uses to model the National Airspace.
The patented software tool provides a method for planning/replanning collision free flight plans in real-time comprising the steps of: (a) planning individual flight plans for each flying asset… Read More