David Nicholls, a key member of Quanterion’s staff over its first ten years will be very busy at this year’s International Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) in San Jose, California presenting two technical papers and serving as an invited panelist. The RAMS is the largest international symposium of reliability, maintainability and quality engineering every year… Read More
Ten-year old Utica-based Quanterion Solutions Incorporated continues to grow with the addition of key staff members. Company President, Preston MacDiarmid, announced that Thomas McGibbon and Paul Wagner have joined the company that provides reliability and quality engineering and software/database development services to the government and commercial industry.
Thomas McGibbon has joined Quanterion as Director of Software… Read More
Product reliability is an important discriminator in today’s global marketplace but does your organization know how it’s doing compared to competitors in terms of designing and building reliability into its products? Could/should you be doing more “upfront” reliability activities to improve customer satisfaction, to reduce warranty costs, and to reduce in-plant rework costs? Do you… Read More
The general form of this type of reliability block diagram has two series circuits in a parallel arrangement combined through a center or “keystone” unit. You are often given the reliability of each block and asked to calculate the reliability of the circuit.
For example let’s say we are given the following five block arrangement pictured… Read More
Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) is the process of exposing a newly manufactured product to environmental stresses in order to identify and eliminate latent defects introduced during the manufacturing process. It is part of the manufacturing process and is therefore performed on 100% of the items manufactured. After ESS, the remaining product population will have a… Read More
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
