ARINC Engineering Services, LLC, and DfR Solutions have announced a partnership to provide combined Reliability and DMSMS support to commercial manufacturing, government, and the defense industry.
ARINC is a pioneer in obsolescence management with a long heritage in reliability engineering as well. Its programs in DMSMS (Diminished Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages) have been widely used for logistics planning in all phases of government, defense, and commercial project lifecycles for years.
DfR Solutions has championed the use of Physics of Failure (PoF) to predict reliability in the electronics industry since its founding in 2004. This physics-based approach has allowed the company to stay on top and ahead of emerging technologies, understanding how components and assemblies are likely to perform even prior to prototype. This durable approach has been formalized in DfR’s new Automated Design Analysis (ADA) software.
“Combining ARINC’s DMSMS expertise with the resolution and predictive power of DfR Solutions’ new ADA Tool will be synergistic,” stated Walt Tomczykowski, ARINC Director, Life Cycle Management & Operations Support. “We plan to revolutionize product support and logistics by enabling customers to build-in new reliability and obsolescence mitigation techniques at the same time. This practice can measurably lower total cost of ownership.”
"We are very excited about the potential this partnership brings to the project management community," said Craig Hillman, Chief Executive Officer of DfR Solutions. "A detailed understanding of the impact of design on reliability and obsolescence will allow project managers a level of control and insight into their total cost of ownership never seen before."
An understanding of both reliability design and obsolescence management is important to Life Cycle Management and Product Support (Sustainment). The need for these has come into focus because of new requirements for Defense procurement driven by Section 805 of the FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, recently signed into law.