The Center for System Reliability (CSR) has been established at Sandia National Laboratories to partner with the commercial and government sectors on technical programs that involve system reliability and related technologies.

Capabilities:

The Center includes unique people, skills, technologies, software, and facilities to provide customer support in:

We encourage and seek partnerships with appropriate US industry and government groups to collaborate in one or more of the following areas:

Use the top 6 buttons on the left navigational bar to explore the capabilities of the CSR in more detail.

Experience:

The broad range of capabilites of the CSR has attracted many customers in the following industries and application areas:

Use the "Experience" button on the left side of the screen to learn more about the diversity of the customers and projects associated with the CSR.

Here is what one of our customers has to say about our work:

"I couldn't have hired this kind of expertise in the
open market at any price." - Dan Castilleja,
Academy Precision Materials, semiconductor manufacturer.

More about the CSR…

For over 10 years, Sandia has been working with US industry and federal agencies on projects ranging from microelectronics processing tool design, to predictive maintenance software, to anticipating human errors made in nuclear power plant control rooms. In 1997, Robert Cranwell, a former mathematics professor from Arizona University, and department manager in systems reliability at Sandia National Laboratories, embarked on a mission to establish a formal conduit to Sandia's world-class resources in reliability and associated technologies. In 1998, the Center for Systems Reliability was chartered for the express purpose of stimulating and facilitating business relationships between the Labs and external customers. This was a significant accomplishment in making the nation's substantial technical resources, originally cultivated for the Department of Energy (DOE), available to US industry and non-DOE government agencies. Although the CSR is a well-defined subset of Sandia, it has the ability to draw upon the vast technological resources of Sandia to meet the needs of its partners.

Sandia is a collection of national research and development laboratories operated for the Department of Energy by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company. Sandia has two primary locations for its facilities, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Livermore California. With a workforce in excess of 7500, Sandia's primary mission is to ensure that the US nuclear weapons stockpile is safe, secure, and reliable. In accomplishing this mission, Sandia has developed unique capabilities and products that can be applied to reliability analysis and improvement. For additional information about Sandia in general, visit Sandia's web site at http://www.sandia.gov.

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