Introduction:

The Center for System Reliability has developed methodologies and software tools to address a wide range of reliability problems. These tools and techniques have been applied in diverse application areas ranging from nuclear power and missile systems to aviation, automotive, and manufacturing. We have the tools and the experience to help address reliability problems throughout a product's life cycle.

We firmly believe that reliability should be designed and built into products at the earliest possible stages of product  development. As this diagram shows, it's the most economically sound approach to take.

Figure 1. Life Cycle Costs.

Benefits:

• Ensure that products meet performance objectives.
• Identify potential failure mechanisms during product design using fault tree analysis.
• Estimate product warranty costs.
• Optimize benefits from design alternatives using reliability optimization.
• Find the best reliability allocation to meet system reliability objectives
• Predict product reliability prior to making changes.

Capabilities:

• Fault tree analysis and failure modes and effects analysis.
• Reliability estimation.
• Trade-off studies, reliability optimization, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Reliability and safety problem identification.
• Life cycle and warranty cost analysis.
• Reliability goal setting and optimal allocation.