Services

The RIAC's technical staff is ready to provide support in all areas of Reliability, Maintainability, Quality, Supportability, and Interoperability (RMQSI). The RIAC has over 35 years experience supporting organizations in both the government and commercial sectors to develop, implement, and improve effective RMQSI programs and activities. Organizations that already have relatively mature reliability programs have the RIAC work on very specific problems or issues. Others have no formal program and the RIAC provides a wider range of support beginning with an assessment of the organization's needs.

Depending on a customer's needs, the RIAC will provide short-term, quick responses to immediate needs or long-term studies and independent analyses.

The following represents a sampling of RMQSI activities RIAC has performed for clients:

• Reliability Program Planning and Development
• Reliability Audit/Maturity Assessment
• Parts Control Program Development
• Proposal/Source Selection Support
• Design Evaluation
• Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
• Reliability Modeling
• 217Plus Reliability Predictions
• Component Obsolescence Planning
• Maintainability Analysis
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Application and Use of COTS/NDI
• System Lifetime Extension
• Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Finite Element Analysis
• Derating Analysis
• Test Planning and Evaluation
• Environmental Stress Screening Plans