FEATURES & BENEFITS Meet reliability objectives Establish reliability processes Identify top issues Optimize maintenance Minimize cost Maximize availability Predict MTBF Build component libraries Increase system safety Quantify gains Meet internal schedules Calculate warranty Track reliability growth

Meeting all needs. Relex Reliability Consulting Services offerings span a wide range of industries. Using Relex’s staff of trained and experienced professionals, you can be assured that your reliability needs will be met. Relex’s Reliability Consulting team has served in a multitude of capacities and can work on a project basis or as reliability staff augmentation.

Relex Reliability Consulting Services provides an array of support services which can either augment your own reliability activities or become your entire reliability engineering support center. It starts with having an in-depth understanding of your needs and daily challenges in order to provide customized solutions which meet objectives. Our team of professionals includes engineers and experts, including a number with CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) credentials, who couple reliability knowledge with real-world experience. By using Relex services and tools to focus your efforts, you will gain huge strides in decreasing time to market and improving product design. Using techniques developed by Relex Software, our reliability consulting team delivers quality and safety metrics you can use to evaluate and ensure system safety.

Diverse experience. We work with reliability and quality professionals in diverse industries such as automotive, aerospace, defense, information technology, medical, process control, and telecommunications. Whether you are a member of the reliability or quality team, a designer, a project manager, or a corporate manager, we can help you attain your goals and uphold your commitment to quality. Relex Reliability Consulting Services is staffed with trained and experienced reliability professionals, many with Certified Reliability Engineer credentials from the American Society for Quality and/or advanced degrees in reliability engineering. Our team draws from hundreds of years of experience in a variety of industries, providing them with unique insights that can help your business.

The cost effective solution. We use a value-based approach for all engagements. Depending upon the scope and criticality of the project, our professionals are able to recommend the appropriate blend of services that meets your needs as well as your budget. We are available to help you get started in reliability activities, to act as your “bench” when time is a constraint, or even to function as your entire reliability team. When applicable, analyses are performed using the Relex line of reliability software products. If you are currently using other tools, our team is equally capable of utilizing them to complete your analyses.

Certified. Our Certified Reliability Engineers and reliability experts work with customers in a unique knowledge-sharing atmosphere. Our professionals are involved from start to finish, ensuring that requirements are known and understood and that objectives are met. They are a highly trained, deeply knowledgeable group who earn consistent praise across the board.

Proven 4D process. The Relex Reliability Consulting Services employs Relex’s original 4D process as a tool to design and deliver custom solutions. This four-step process—Discovery, Design, Development, and Delivery—delivers on-time, on-budget results. Working together every step of the way, your project is organized and scheduled by expert managers and delivered by trained professionals.

The benefits. Relex Reliability Consulting Services offers a cost effective approach along with hard-to-find domain expertise. Along with hands-on, real-world experience, you gain valuable expert advice for your reliability needs. Translating to more reliable products at a reduced cost investment, Relex Reliability Consulting Services’ return on investment is unmatched.

Extensive design alternatives. Relex Reliability Consulting Services offers extensive services to support your reliability needs. Our team supports a comprehensive set of service offerings in key areas. Design for Reliability encompasses prediction and MTBF evaluation, component derating analysis, reliability performance evaluations, and availability studies. Design for Maintainability includes logistics and RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) techniques, as well as spares optimization determination, and optimization of maintenance practices such as preventive and inspection intervals. Risk Analysis consists of risk assessment, including risk reduction strategies, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA), and human error analysis. Field Data Tracking offers help with establishing and/or improving a FRACAS process, reliability growth analysis, and warranty tracking. Reliability & Maintainability Planning includes overall reliability evaluation and recommendations for improvements, reliability planning, component library services for data gathering, and life cycle cost studies.

	ACCOMPLISHMENTS Client Industry: Private aircraft Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services performed Failure Mode and Effects Analysis for an existing product to ensure that the product met the device qualification requirements. Client Industry: Medical device Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services was responsible for reliability consulting activities through the product development cycle of a new medical device. Client Industry: Data acquisition and storage Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services developed a model of the client’s highly redundant data acquisition and storage system that could be easily modified and updated throughout the design phases, and could provide accurate availability and MTBF metrics for the system. Client Industry: Commercial aerospace Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services analyzed several what-if scenarios of system redundancy for future product development, as well as redundancy analysis for an existing product. Client Industry: Space Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services designed and developed a custom software analysis package to aid in the analysis and risk reduction of human errors in complex processes. In conjunction, instructor-based and online courses were developed to train on methodology and usage of the software package. Client Industry: Remote heating control Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services analyzed devices at multiple operating temperatures to determine predicted failure rates and MTBF. Client Industry: Defense Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services designed and developed a custom software solution for modeling phased-based systems. Client Industry: Emergency response Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services supported the failure rate analysis of a new device which had to meet the failure rate of a predecessor unit. Client Industry: Networks Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services performed Weibull analysis on field and warranty data for an existing product. Relex performed Reliability Growth Modeling to determine failure rate predictions and projections. Client Industry: Data storage Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services aided in the process of assessing and improving availability metrics for a fault tolerant storage system and for future products. The results included recommendations for meeting the system’s availability requirements. Client Industry: Photon camera Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services performed device failure rate analysis. The failure rate and MTBF were analyzed over temperature and the reliability over time. Client Industry: Data storage Synopsis: Relex Reliability Consulting Services took part in the process of analyzing a complex system for availability, considering hardware and software as well as redundancy.