Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability Engineering

As a systems manager working for the government or private sector, you need to know:

• Will the parts or products you're acquiring meet your specified performance requirements?
• How can you reduce total ownership cost over the expected—and possibly extended—life of these products?
• What do you do if your supply chain can't provide that critical part you need?
• Will the lead-free initiative cause tin whiskers in your product?

Whether you're facing Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) or defining performance requirements, ARINC's reliability, maintainability, and supportability (RMS) engineering services help you answer these key questions—and more.

Our experts understand what it takes to design RMS into products and to develop an effective strategy that will sustain your system's operational performance over time. In fact, we wrote the book on reliability: the Product Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability Handbook, which provides the latest reliability design and product assurance techniques.

We support you by conducting a reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis of your products using advanced tools, such as Raptor, and by developing and implementing life-extension, modernization, and component-obsolescence programs.

Recent studies have concluded that without the presence of lead (Pb) based solders tin whiskers have developed and have caused critical system failures. ARINC works with you to develop a screening strategy to quickly verify the type of solder for high reliability applications. With our expert reliability modeling knowledge we helped optimized the Innov-X Solder Analyzer specifically for this application. Operators and managers of critical, high-value assets like aircraft, marine and rail platforms, industrial machinery, and complex support systems all benefit from ARINC RMS engineering services.