Systems Effectiveness Associates, Inc.
20 Vernon Street
Norwood, MA 02063
Phone: 781-762-9252
Fax: 781-769-9422
E-mail: info@sea-co.com

Reliability Analysis

SEA provides you with reliability predictions (MTBF), system availability, and software reliability analysis that will satisfy the requirements of Telcordia, FDA, ISO or NASA/DOD standards. We can also help you establish product support strategies that will maximize your reliability image in your marketplace.

Reliability Prediction Analysis

SEA can provide reliability predictions that allows you to understand how parameters such as temperature, stress, part quality, packaging and environment come together to influence product reliability and how these can be modeled to determine how each effects system uptime.

To give you the most accurate prediction of future performance we have enhanced the typical MIL HDBK 217/Telcordia SR332 methods for predicting reliability. The result is a more realistic view of the expected field reliability.

System Reliability Analysis

Using state of the art modeling techniques, SEA provides product engineers and managers with system reliability analysis that show how redundancies, switch over times, repair strategies, fault detection, reboot and recovery time can be modeled to understand how each component effects system outage probabilities.

We also provide our clients with a user interface to the model in order for them to explore sensitivities to reliability, configuration, redundancy and repair strategies. To make the user interface as intuitive as possible, we try to visually match your hardware configuration.

Risk Assessment

Application of risk assessment analysis provides you with the knowledge of how your product can fail and how failure affects the user. FMEAs, FMECAs or FTAs can be performed to any of the MIL, FAA or Medical requirements. It can be used as an effective tool to enhance your product’s reliability, availability, safety, or diagnostic effectiveness.

Using application sets developed around historical data analysis within a specific software development organization, SEA can enable you to more efficiently manage your software development by:

Software Reliability Analysis

Using application sets developed around historical data analysis within a specific software development organization, SEA can enable you to more efficiently manage your software development by:

SEA's reliability analysis programs provides the following benefits:

"SEA has the flexibility to provide reliability analysis services that address their customers market needs."

Allen Zubatkin, ,
Crossbeam Systems
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We have modified the typical MIL HDBK 217/Telcordia SR332 methods for predicting reliability to give you a more realistic view of the expected field reliability.

We use, to the greatest extent possible, manufacturers test data. We then translate the data to the temperature of interest using the appropriate activation energies from either MIL HDBK 217 or Telcordia's SR332.

The demand for quality components in the commercial sector has caused the component manufacturers to develop their own reliability programs. We use our knowledge of these programs to select the appropriate quality levels when performing a prediction.

The result is the most competitive reliability estimate you can get anywhere.

"SEA has evaluated our system and has provided us with a user definable, modular System Availability model that allows our customers to tailor redundancy configurations to meet their availability and cost of service targets, as well as evaluate sparing strategies. SEA has added real value to Équipe's product offering."

Brian Branscomb, ,
Équipe Communications
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