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General Analysis
The Reliability Experts. Omnicon is a specialist in reliability, maintainability, and safety engineering for
mission-critical, safety-critical, and revenue-critical systems. Our customers include government agencies
and companies in the medical, industrial, and transportation fields. We have performed hundreds of analyses
on military and commercial products and have provided their designers with meaningful results. Our
experience can be applied to make virtually any product more dependable, safer, and more successful.
The basic types of analyses are described briefly on the Omnicon prepares a report for each analysis. The report
reverse side. Depending on your product and any failure summarizes what was done, highlights significant find-
history, Omnicon can suggest an appropriate analysis. ings, and provides complete details of findings, usually in
tabular form.
An analysis is performed by engineers who are exper-
ienced in that specialty. Since about half of Omnicon’s If a significant risk is discovered during an analysis,
staff specializes in reliability, we have the skills, data Omnicon will contact your designers immediately.
references, and tools to perform the analysis quickly and
Omnicon’s analyses can be helpful in other ways for
provide customers with results that are thorough, accurate,
designs not yet in production. Omnicon engineers are
and meaningful.
experienced circuit designers and software developers,
If your product has a history of failures, Omnicon will and a natural consequence of most reliability analyses is
work with you and concentrate on specific product areas to an unbiased review of your detailed design. While
more quickly identify the root causes and appropriate Omnicon will not attempt to design your circuits or
corrective actions. If you are designing a new product, software, our analysts may informally suggest easier or
Omnicon can help you prevent an accumulation of field less expensive approaches to certain implementation
problems before entering production. details you may wish to consider.
Omnicon will work with you to tailor any analysis to your Above all, Omnicon gives you insight that leads to a more
needs and provide results that are most useful to you. dependable, safer, and better product.
are needed. Analysis results are presented in a table that RESPONSE TO COMMAND RESPONSE TO COMMAND
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effect and system effect of the failure, plus its failure rate.
ONE OF ONE OF
12 POSITION 12 POSITION
RESOLVER DATA LOSS RESOLVER DATA LOSS
SIGNALS FAILS OF FECU SIGNALS FAILS OF FECU
ACTIVE OR CHANNEL 2 ACTIVE OR CHANNEL 1
The Omnicon Group is an award-winning engineering company established in 1984. As reliability experts,
we find defects in designs that lead to unreliable, unmaintainable, or unsafe products. As software dev-
elopers, we provide every phase of the software life cycle from requirements development to acceptance
test procedures and beyond. And as hardware and systems designers, we understand the importance of
reliable designs and the techniques to achieve them. We combine our experience in these areas to provide
meaningful analyses that best meet our customers’ needs.