Here are some of Equipment Reliability Institute's (ERI) subject areas in which we can help you. Just click on the subjects that interest you and you will link to one or more ERI specialists. May we propose training at your facility? We also offer consulting assistance with specific problems, such as failure analysis, corrosion control, modal analysis and testing, NEBS testing, and the ruggedizing of commercial equipment to meet the military services demand for COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) defense equipment. Can we help you understand and comply with standards such as MIL-STD-810F? (please read V&S below as "vibration and shock").

• Acoustics and noise control

• Active and passive control (isolation or uncoupling) of ambient vibration

• Agricultural equipment V&S

• Aircraft, avionics and missile V&S

• Applications of strain gages

• Automotive (including trucks and busses) equipment V&S

• Calibration of V&S sensors

• Climatic Environments; Environmental test chambers

• Complying with European EMC Directive

• Cooling of Electronics

• Corrosion causes, locations, identification and prevention

• Corrosion engineering principles and applications

• Data acquisition and analysis

• Data acquisition for V&S testing

• Design for reliability and durability

• Determining the root cause and the physics of electronic failures

• Development of random vibration

• Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)

• Environmental tests from non-stationary data for accelerated testing

• Field reliability, field service cost savings

• Fundamentals of V&S

• HALT,ESS & HASS

• Liquid Cooling for Electronics

• Mechanical design integrity, endurance tests, modal analysis, litigation support

• Microcircuit manufacture and food handling, clean room, particle measurements and control

• Random vibration environmental testing

• RFI/EMI/EMC radio frequency interference, electromagnetic interference, electromagnetic compatibility

• Servohydraulics for testing and for characterizing structures and materials

• Strain Gage

• Thermal Design of Electronic Enclosures Exposed to Diurnal Cycles

• Troubleshooting, repair and failure prevention of electronic circuitry and systems

• V&S fixture design and fabrication

Click on the links below to find more information about course locations and dates:

Fundamentals of Random Vibration and Shock Testing, HALT, ESS, HASS (...)

HALT/HASS/HASA and Practical Design FMEA

Isolating Shipboard Electronic Equipment

You may wish onsite training for your designers and test personnel, "tailored" to your organization's needs. You are invited to see our Training page and check on our course outlines.

One of our specialists, Harry Schwab, is offering two new courses in "Developing Random Vibration Tests from Field Data" and "Introduction to Stress Analysis".

As promised, Wayne's presentation at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (IEST), Southern California Chapter on January 9, 2008, "Simultaneous Multiaxis Vibration - Testing & Stress Screening" is now available for download here.

“Random Vibration & Shock Testing, Measurement, Analysis & Calibration”, minimal-mathematics minimal-theory text, emphasizes test and measurement hardware and practice. Based in part upon Tustin’s lecture notes, it includes new material on digital techniques for spectrum analysis and for digital control of shakers for random, sine and shock testing.

This 444 4-color printed pages book also includes a CD-ROM with video clips and animations.

More information and how to purchase the book.

Are you interested in dynamics (vibration, mechanical shock, noise, acoustics, automotive buzz, squeak, rattle, etc.)? Please click here to visit vibrationandshock.com, the other ERI web site.

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