Reliability engineering
Gain control over product lifetime, reliability, and risks throughout the entire product lifecycle
Unexpected failures lead to costs, risks, and reputational damage
You may be asking yourself: how do I ensure that my product is reliable, not only during testing but also in the hands of customers in the field?
Reliability goes beyond preventing warranty claims. It also affects your reputation, customer trust, and in some industries even user safety. Yet lifetime-related risks are often underestimated. Decisions are regularly made based on limited test data, assumptions, or experiences from previous projects.
The result? Unexpected failures, product recalls, and high failure costs. In industries such as consumer electronics, medical technology, and high-tech manufacturing, these incidents can have significant financial and operational consequences.
Reliability engineering helps make uncertainty visible and supports better decisions on design, validation, and maintenance.
Lower failure costs
Prevent unexpected failures, warranty claims, and costly corrective actions.
Greater confidence
Support design and maintenance decisions with data and models.
Stronger market position
Deliver products that demonstrably perform reliably throughout their lifetime.
Why is reliability so challenging?
A product may perform exceptionally well during testing and still fail prematurely in the field. It is precisely this uncertainty that makes reliability a complex challenge.
Development teams constantly need to make trade-offs between performance, cost, lifetime, and risk. At the same time, test data is often limited and important decisions must already be made early in the development process.
Small errors in estimating product lifetime or failure mechanisms can have major consequences. Think of unexpected service costs, recalls, production downtime, or safety risks.
That is why reliable decision-making information is essential. Not only for designers and engineers, but also for managers responsible for investments, risk management, and product launches.
Which decisions do we support?
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Predicting product lifetime
How long will a product continue to function reliably under real-world operating conditions?
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Assessing risks
Which failure mechanisms have the greatest impact on performance, cost, or safety?
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Defining test strategies
Which tests are needed to reduce uncertainty and substantiate risks?
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Planning maintenance
When is maintenance required to minimize failures and costs?
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Monitoring field performance
How can deviations be identified before they lead to customer issues?
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Supporting design choices
Which design alternative provides the best balance between performance, risk, and cost?
The benefits of reliability engineering
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Fewer unexpected failures
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Lower warranty and service costs
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Better design decisions
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Greater insight into risks and product lifetime
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More informed maintenance strategies
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More confidence among customers and regulators
Want more control over reliability and product lifetime?
Discover how reliability engineering helps make risks visible at an early stage and supports better design, maintenance, and investment decisions.
Reliability engineering from the very first design
CQM helps organizations apply reliability engineering in a structured and practical way, from the initial design through maintenance in the field. We integrate lifetime modeling and reliability testing directly into the development and validation process. This ensures that reliability is built in from the start rather than added afterward.
We combine advanced statistics with technical domain expertise. This gives you not only insight into performance and product lifetime, but also reliable guidance for design, validation, and risk management.
Our support includes, among other things:
Lifetime modeling and simulation
Predict the expected product lifetime, compare design alternatives, and quantify risks before products reach the market.
Accelerated lifetime testing
Design and analyze smart tests to uncover failure mechanisms and reduce uncertainty.
Field performance monitoring
Detect deviations at an early stage by linking field data to expected lifetime calculations.
Crash project support
Quickly assess the impact of unexpected failures to make the right decisions on recalls, repairs, or further product development.
How reliable is your product really?
Many risks only become visible after a product has entered the market. In many cases, there are opportunities at an early stage to better substantiate product lifetime, reliability, and risk.