Center For Reliability (CFR)

CFR, India located at Chennai is functioning under Standardisation, Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India. CFR works closely with several National & International Organisations and has been providing reliability services along with advanced level seminars / workshops in the area of Quality & Reliability. CFR has developed eight Software tools for Reliability Engineering. These tools are in use in more than 300 organisations in India and abroad.

Background

Centre for Reliability (CFR), India has been established by the Government of India in the year 1982 to facilitate improved reliability of Indian electronics & information technology products. CFR strives to compliment and supplement the efforts of the Indian Industries to deliver world-class products and services. This is achieved by providing state-of-the-art services in the field of

A – Availability
R – Reliability
M – Maintainability
S – Safety

CFR, India located at Chennai is functioning under Standardisation, Testing and Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), Government of India. CFR works closely with several National & International Organizations and has been providing reliability services along with advanced level training programmes in the area of Quality & Reliability. CFR has developed Eight Software tools for Reliability Engineering. These tools are in use in more than 500 organisations in India and Abroad.

Vision

·         To provide World Class Reliability Engineering services Internationally

Mission

·         to provide reliability services right first time and every time to delight the customers

·         to establish world class laboratories for System Reliability Engineering and Software Reliability Engineering

·         to innovate new software tools for Reliability Engineering and improve the quality and reliability of the software tools already developed and enable their widespread application in industries and other organisations such as R&D, educational institutions etc.

·         to bring in an awakening about Reliability Engineering amongst all walks of life including Industries, students, Institutions and public at large.

·         to spearhead the activities in the area of Software Reliability Engineering

·         to consistently improve the quality and reliability of services rendered and thereby increase the quantum of services and clientele continuously resulting in benefits to all the stakeholders.

Strengths

Reliability Analysis is the core activity of CFR. CFR derives its strength from past experience in executing major projects at National level and competitive projects from industry. Some of the major projects successfully completed are:

·         Reliability Analysis of Electronics portion of Second Launch Pad of SHAR Centre, Sriharikota

·         Reliability Growth through Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and thereafter Reliability

·         Determination testing of Dot Matrix Printer for TVSE, Chennai.

·         Failure Analysis of HPJT device for Mini-Circuits, USA.

·         Reliability Assessment of Primary Radar System of LCA for CABS, Bangalore.

Services Offered

In the liberalized global market scenario, Indian industries have to compete with high reliability products from all over the world. Cosmetic reliability touch may lead to considerable loss in the confidence on the products amongst customers leading to loss of revenue and reputation. CFR renders the following services to build products of high reliability

·         Reliability Prediction

·         Failure Mode Effects and Criticality analysis

·         Fault tree analysis

·         Reliability Testing (HALT and HAST)

·         Failure Analysis of Components

·         Reliability Analysis of Software Products

·         Development of Software Tools for Reliability Engineering

·         Consultancy for Spares and Maintenance Management

·         Consultancy for process improvement using Statistical Process Control (SPC) Tools

·         Awareness Creation, Training and Certification of Industrial Employees in the field of Reliability Engineering

Scope of Services

The above services are utilized by the following sectors of industry

·         Information Technology

·         Electrical / Electronics

·         Electromechanical Gateway for Reliability Innovations 3

·         Engineering and Process Control

Benefits of Reliability Engineering Techniques

·         Scientific approach to design of improved and assured reliability product at optimal cost

·         Identify potential design, manufacturing and maintainability problems

·         Reduced warranty failures and reduced warranty cost

·         Improved field Reliability/Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

·         Cost reduction by optimization of Spare requirements

·         Minimized manufacturing defects in delivered hardware

Design Consultancy

The experience gained in reliability engineering activities on a wide cross section of products and appropriate training has resulted in development of a battery of scientists in CFR who can provide consultancy on design of reliable products.

Their services are sought after by leading brand names for design review and training of their employees. CFR trained 20 top-notch designers of TVS Electronics, Chennai exclusively for a week to become Certified Reliability Professionals (CRP). In addition 14 batches of professionals from across the country and overseas participated in the CRP programmes conducted by the Centre in Chennai and Mumbai.

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