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 STD 217, MIL STD 417, 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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