Reliability and Maintainability (R & M)

D & R’s Reliability and Maintainability capability includes a diverse assortment of plans, strategies, analyses, tools and experience that help equipment designers, manufacturers, system integrators and end users achieve their R & M goals.

Some of the major areas of R & M that we specialize in are:

• Reliability Program Definition
• Reliability Data Collection and Analysis
• Reliability Modeling and Prediction
• Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS)
• Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Reliability Centered Maintenance
• Maintainability Analysis

D & R’s staff utilizes a wide range of techniques that include, as appropriate, best commercial practices (DFSS, SAE, ASQC, ISO 9000, etc) and military methods (MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-HDBK-470, MIL-HDBK-472, etc). We are familiar with a variety of commercially available reliability modeling, spreadsheet, database and statistical analysis tools. These services have been (and continue to be) performed for a wide variety of industries including aerospace, defense, mass transit, material handling, automated assembly, xerographic, and others.

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