Reliability
Consulting
SEA-Co. offers state-of the art reliability consulting
SEA offers product reliability consulting services to assist manufacturers in predicting product reliability and serviceability while your product is still in the design phase. By utilizing our reliability consulting services and advice regarding product reliability and maintainability, a manufacturer can be assured that supportability is designed into the final product.
To detect product serviceability problems early in the design stage, Our reliability consulting services include reliability analysis and testing methods that allows previewing of product reliability, warranty and service cost long before a product is built.
System reliability analysis
Using state of the art modeling techniques, SEA provides product engineers and managers with a System Reliability model that show how redundancies, switch over times, repair strategies, fault detection, reboot and recovery time can be modeled to understand how each component effects system downtime.
Our reliability consulting services will help you optimize your product design for profitability and customer satisfaction through an insight into real world product performance.
We also provide our clients with a user interface to the model to explore sensitivities to reliability, configuration, redundancy and repair strategies.
The user interface is modeled on your hardware configuration in order to make it as intuitive as possible.
Reliability consulting predictions
SEA's reliability consulting services incorporate predictive analysis that allows you to understand how parameters such as temperature, stress, part quality, packaging and environment come together to influence product reliability and how these can be modeled to understand how each effects system downtime.
As part of our reliability consulting services we have modified the typical '217/Telcordia methods for predicting reliability to give you a more realistic view of the expected field reliability.
We use, to the greatest extent possible, manufacturers test data. We then translate the data to the temperature of interest using the appropriate activation energies from either '217 or Telcordia's SR332.
The demand for quality components in the commercial sector has caused the component manufacturers to develop their own reliability programs. We use our knowledge of these programs to select the appropriate quality levels when performing a prediction.
The result is the most competitive reliability estimate you can get anywhere.
Software reliability consulting services
Using application sets developed around historical data analysis within a specific software development organization, SEA' consulting services can enable you to more efficiently manage your software development by:
- Estimating the total test time for a software configuration
- Estimating the time remaining to reach a predetermined level of quality
- Estimating the cost/risk of releasing a software configuration at any point in time
Reliability test
Whether you are designing new equipment or modifying existing equipment, our reliability consulting services can provide you with accelerated reliability test techniques that will allow you to get a reliable product to market faster!
Using our technical expertise, coupled with new HALT/HASS techniques, we can cost effectively put your product through its paces to find its performance and production screening limitations. These new techniques use environmental stresses to stimulate failures rather than simulating use environments. The focus of testing is to rapidly produce failures in a meaningful way, analyze them and suggest corrective action to increase product robustness and durability.
The purpose of Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) is to optimize product reliability by identifying the functional and destructive limits of your product.
You benefit in two ways from this experience:
You receive a thorough evaluation of the weakest links in the design at the lowest possible cost. You establish the safe stress limits for production screening.
The purpose of Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) is to expose your product to optimized production screens without effecting product reliability.
SEA's product reliability consulting services insure that your product is serviceable and that your maintenance strategy is properly tuned and tried before your product goes in production.
With the help from SEA, you build products that are more reliable and maintainable and therefore more profitable.
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