Product
Reliability
Systems Effectiveness Associates - Product Reliability
SEA
offers product reliability services to assist manufacturers in predicting product
reliability and serviceability before the prototype stage. By utilizing our
services and advice regarding product reliability and maintainability, a manufacturer
can be assured that supportability is designed into the final product.
To detect product serviceability problems early in the design stage, SEA has developed
product reliability analysis testing procedures that allows previewing of product
reliability, warranty and service cost long before a product is built.
Product reliability is to a greater degree than ever, dependant on how reliable the
system software is at the time it is released. Our clients are seeing 10 times more
software failures than hardware failures. To address this major hurdle to product
reliability SEA has developed services to address this problem.
In order to manage the development of more reliable software, SEA can provide you
with a tool to:
1. Estimate the total test time for a software configuration.
This would not only estimate the time to test each code module
but would account for the test, analyze, fix and retest time for
the number of faults predicted to be in the code.
2. Estimate the time remaining to reach a predetermined level
of quality. This would require the user to update input data
as the testing of software progressed and to obtain an updated
estimate of the test time remaining to some selectable confidence
limits.
3. Estimate the cost/risk of releasing a software configuration
at any point in time. This application would estimate the number
of faults remaining and the mean time to next fault based on the
amount of testing done. It would also be based on the cost to fix
faults in the field and would compute a dollar value of the risk.
The application would allow the user to input the time to next
planned software upgrade to get an estimate of total cost/risk.
Product reliability Services
Our product reliability services are geared to help you see how your product will
fare in the real world before you build your first prototype. SEA can provide you
with the ability to manage product reliability allowing you to develop products that
have a predictable service costs, warranty costs and predictable sparing levels that
will allow you to optimize profitability.
Product reliability consulting
SEA's product reliability analysis and product
reliability test services insure that your product is serviceable and that your
maintenance strategy is properly tuned and tried before your product goes in production.
With the help from SEA, you build products that are more reliable and maintainable
and therefore more profitable.
For more information on SEA's product reliability predictions and consulting services, click
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