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 overall Availability. We need to… 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
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 five years. How can this… 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
Quanterion Solutions, a key member of the Wyle Laboratories team operating the Department of Defense (DoD) Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), has released the “Handbook of 217Plus Reliability Prediction Models” according to Quanterion’s David Nicholls, the RIAC Operations Manager.
Nicholls indicated that the Handbook is the most comprehensive reliability prediction handbook published since the last revision… Read More
Quanterion Solutions, a small business engineering consulting firm based in Utica, NY, has been awarded three recent contracts. Company President Preston MacDiarmid announced that Brookhaven National Laboratories (BNL) has awarded a 3-year engineering support services contract to Quanterion to support itsInternational Safeguards Project Office and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Under the program, the company… Read More
Quanterion Solutions of Utica was invited to address the members of the Business Council of New York on its success in building a successful new business at the 2ndAnnual Homeland Security Conference. Quanterion President Preston MacDiarmid briefed an audience of several hundred in Albany on January 18th along with speakers from the federal and state… Read More
Last month we introduced you to the Department of Defense (DoD) Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC), formerly known as the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), as a valuable resource for expertise and data/information in reliability, maintainability, quality, supportability, and interoperability.Now we want to tell you more about the technologies covered by all twenty-one Centers of Excellence… Read More
Quanterion Solutions is a major part of a Wyle Laboratories led team awarded a five year $28 million dollar contract by DISA to operate the DoD Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC). The 37- year old operation, previously called the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC), is the DoD’s center of excellence in data, information, and expertise related… Read More
