Reliability and Safety Engineering
Our model-based systems engineering techniques, which have been effectively applied to vehicle and weapon systems, enable us to produce designs that meet the necessary performance, reliability, availability, and maintainability requirements to promote Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM).
- Engineering for optimization of high-reliability and safety-critical systems
- Reliability Design Analysis from System to Component Levels
- Handbook and Model Based Physics-of-Failure Predictions
- Design Optimization for Reliability Improvement of Electronic Systems
- Analysis of Environments and Equipment Responses
- Reliability Enhancement Test Design
- Reliability Enablers for CBM+ and RCM
- Systems Safety Engineering
System Reliability Analysis
We use commercial toolkits and an extensive knowledge base to develop handbook predictions,
reliability block diagrams, FMECA and fault tree models of systems. Our engineers are proficient
in the use of Pro-E MECHANICA and Thermal Desktop to perform vibration, shock and thermal analyses
to assess loads and physics-of-failure mechanisms. CALCE analysis techniques are used to assess low
and high cycle fatigue effects on circuit card assemblies.
Component Analysis
Component part selection and
de-rating analysis is employed to improve design margins and maximize reliability.
Design Optimization
All CPC reliability engineers are experienced
in systems and equipment design so they go beyond "the numbers" to provide design guidance for
achieving the required levels of reliability. Strategies are developed for mitigation of fault modes
by hardware and software design changes.
Reliability Testing
Our experience in environmental testing and
fixture design is used to develop meaningful and cost-efficient reliability enhancement and ESS
test profiles.
Safety Engineering
Our safety engineers perform hazard analyses
of complex systems using fault tree analysis techniques to assess risks, develop, and evaluate
fault tolerant system designs.