Reliability Engineering & Program Management

Why not tap into Elite's 50 years of test and engineering expertise to help you improve the reliability of your product. Elite can tailor engineering services to support specific needs of your product development effort. We can also provide a full suite of services that comprise a comprehensive reliability program, the results of which will optimize the design, affordability, and ruggedness your new product.

For our comprehensive reliability services, we assign an experienced Elite program manager to assure that your product is tested correctly and efficiently from start through completion. Our program manager will coordinate all phases of the project and communicate regularly status and issues as they evolve.

The following program is a typical outline of an Elite managed reliability services program. Our engineers can provide part or all these services depending on your needs:

Measure and Record
In-Situ Stress
(i.e. vibration or
electrical transients)

Client provides to Elite the following information:

• Overall reliability goals and objectives
• Product design specification, drawings
• Literature & brochures
• Intended markets & end user requirements
• FMEA & other reliability inputs
• Budget

Prepare Reliability Test Plans

• Elite assigns a reliability Program Manager
• Elite performs electrical & EMC design review
• Elite acquires field data for vibration, shock, and climatic conditions.
• Elite develops test plan and reliability plans around client information

Develop Test tooling
& Life Cylce Fixturing

• Client & Elite review reliability goals, product validation goals, and approve the test plan.

• Elite Designs & Builds Life Cycling Fixtures
• Elite Designs & Builds Vibe & Shock Tooling
• Elite Develops Support Equipment for Monitoring and Test Control

Perform HALT/HASS

Failure Analysis

• Elite performs early design evaluation testing.
• HALT, Initial electrical and EMC tests

• Elite performs formal validation testing.
• Elite performs accelerated life testing.
• Failure Report & Corrective Action (FRACAS)
• Formal EMC & Environmental test reports

Develop Accelerated
Life Testing Program

Manage Formal Qual
& Validation Tests

• Elite prepares final reliability metrics and assessment & issues a program summary

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