Centers of Excellence · Reliability & Compliance

Engineering reliability and compliance into the product—and proving it before the field does.

ATRI helps engineer products and systems to perform reliably over their intended life and meet the requirements of the markets and environments in which they operate.

From reliability modeling, accelerated-life testing and HALT to failure analysis, product assurance and certification engineering, we connect what testing reveals directly back to the engineering teams that can improve the product.

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PRODUCT UNDER TEST
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS
DUTY CYCLE
MEASUREMENT
DATA / EVIDENCE

Evidence captured under representative stress, not assumed

What We Engineer
From reliability requirements to market readiness.

Reliability and compliance should not begin at the end of product development. ATRI integrates them into the engineering process—defining requirements, modeling expected behavior, testing products under stress, investigating failures, implementing corrective actions and supporting certification and release.

Reliability Engineering & Prediction

Reliability requirements field-life projections Weibull analysis derating analysis failure distributions duty-cycle analysis warranty planning reliability improvement

Accelerated Reliability & HALT

Accelerated-life testing HALT environmental stress extended duty-cycle operation temperature and humidity testing failure discovery stress-driven design improvement

Product Assurance & Validation

Test strategy verification planning test-system development test execution qualification support validation test evidence release readiness

Failure Analysis & Corrective Action

Failure characterization isolation root-cause analysis corrective engineering corrective-action validation retest recurrence prevention

Product & Hardware Compliance

FCC UL CE electrical/electronic product requirements RF/EMC compliance hazardous-application requirements market-access engineering

Environmental, Materials & Energy Compliance

RoHS REACH ENERGY STAR environmental/material requirements energy-performance requirements

Software & Solution Compliance

Software quality compatibility validation Windows driver ecosystem certification privacy/data requirements GDPR applicable ISO and security/compliance programs

Reliability Engineering
Reliability begins before the test.

ATRI develops reliability strategies around how the product will actually be used: its expected life, operating environment, duty cycle, stresses and consequences of failure. The objective is not simply to determine whether a product passes a test. It is to understand how and why it may fail, what margin exists in the design, and what field performance to expect.

HOW IT WILL BE USED
WHAT STRESSES IT WILL EXPERIENCE
HOW AND WHEN IT MAY FAIL
HOW THE DESIGN CAN BE IMPROVED
WHAT FIELD PERFORMANCE TO EXPECT
Reliability Modeling & Field Projection
Turning test and field data into engineering decisions.

ATRI uses reliability analysis to understand failure behavior and project how products are likely to perform over time.

Weibull Analysis
Characterize failure distributions · understand failure behavior · estimate life characteristics · support field projections
Derating Analysis
Evaluate operating stress · understand design margin · identify overstressed components or systems · support reliability decisions
Field-Life Projection
Relate accelerated testing, duty cycle and observed failures to expected real-world operation
Warranty Planning
Use projected reliability and failure behavior to support warranty assumptions, service planning and lifecycle decisions
TEST / FIELD DATA
RELIABILITY ANALYSIS
WEIBULL / DERATING
FAILURE PROJECTION
EXPECTED FIELD PERFORMANCE
WARRANTY & LIFECYCLE PLANNING
Accelerated Reliability
Find the weaknesses before the customer does.

ATRI develops accelerated test programs that expose products to representative operating cycles, environmental stresses and extended operation so weaknesses can be identified earlier in the product lifecycle.

Broader field-life & stress methodology
FIELD USE
DUTY CYCLE + ENVIRONMENT + STRESS
ACCELERATED TEST STRATEGY
EXTENDED OPERATION / STRESS TESTING
FAILURES & DEGRADATION
ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
DESIGN IMPROVEMENT
RETEST
HALT
Stress the product. Find the margin. Improve the design.

ATRI performs extensive Highly Accelerated Life Testing across embedded and electromechanical products to expose weaknesses and understand how products behave beyond normal operating conditions.

Deliberate margin-discovery methodology

HALT is used as an engineering discovery process—helping identify failure mechanisms and opportunities to improve robustness before those weaknesses appear in the field.

Reliability Test Systems
Sometimes the test system has to be engineered too.

ATRI’s reliability capability extends beyond defining test procedures. We engineer physical test systems and environmental equipment when the product-assurance program requires them.

Temperature
Humidity
Airflow / Environment
Sensing
Control
Test Article Operation
CONTROLLED RELIABILITY TEST ENVIRONMENT

ATRI has designed and built environmental chamber systems for sustained reliability and accelerated testing programs.

This connects naturally to Industrial & Mechanical Engineering (physical chamber design and build) and Software & Control Systems (chamber and test-system controls).
Product Assurance
Build the process around the product.

ATRI can develop the complete product-assurance system required to evaluate whether a product is ready for sustained real-world operation.

REQUIREMENTS
TEST STRATEGY
TEST SYSTEM
EXECUTE
MEASURE
ANALYZE
CORRECT
REVALIDATE
RELEASE EVIDENCE

Product assurance can bring together reliability, environmental testing, functional validation, compliance readiness and corrective engineering rather than treating them as disconnected activities.

Failure Analysis & Corrective Action
Finding a failure is only the beginning.

ATRI connects failure investigation directly to engineering corrective action.

FAILURE
CONTAIN
CHARACTERIZE
ISOLATE
ROOT CAUSE
CORRECT
RETEST
VALIDATE
PREVENT RECURRENCE

When testing exposes a weakness, ATRI can bring the relevant engineering disciplines into the investigation—mechanical, thermal, electronics, power, RF, embedded software, controls or other system elements.

The objective is not merely a failure-analysis report. It is a more reliable product.

Engineering the Corrective Action
The team that finds the problem can help engineer the solution.
FAILURE FOUND

The relevant engineering domain depends on the failure—not every CoE participates in every investigation

Mechanical / Thermal
Industrial & Mechanical Engineering
Electronics / Embedded
Embedded Solutions
Power
Power Electronics
RF / Connectivity
Communications & Wireless
Software / Control
Software & Control Systems
Video / IoT
Video & IoT
CORRECTIVE ENGINEERING
RETEST
VALIDATE
Compliance Engineering
Engineer for compliance before arriving at the certification lab.

Compliance requirements can influence architecture, components, materials, electronics, RF design, software, security and documentation. ATRI incorporates applicable requirements into the engineering process rather than treating certification as an end-of-development administrative step.

IDENTIFY REQUIREMENTS
INTERPRET STANDARDS
TRANSLATE TO ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS
DESIGN FOR COMPLIANCE
PRE-COMPLIANCE / READINESS
CORRECT GAPS
CERTIFICATION TESTING
EVIDENCE & DOCUMENTATION
MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE
Where final certification requires an accredited lab, certification body, regulator or ecosystem owner, ATRI supports the product through the process. ATRI does not itself issue certifications.
Product & Market Compliance
From the physical product to the markets where it operates.
Regulatory & Market Access
FCC · CE · RF/wireless requirements · applicable regional product requirements
Safety & Product Certification
UL · electrical/product safety requirements · certification readiness and support
Hazardous Applications
Engineering and compliance support for products intended for applicable hazardous environments
Environmental & Materials
RoHS · REACH · restricted-substance and material requirements
Energy & Efficiency
ENERGY STAR · applicable energy-performance requirements

ATRI engineers products toward these requirements and supports certification testing and readiness; certification itself is issued by the applicable regulator, notified body or certification authority.

Software Quality & Ecosystem Certification
Product assurance doesn’t stop at hardware.

ATRI’s product-assurance capability extends into software and the ecosystems in which software must operate. For example, ATRI develops Windows drivers and supports them through the verification, compatibility and Microsoft ecosystem processes required for release.

DRIVER / SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
VERIFY
TEST
COMPATIBILITY & QUALITY VALIDATION
ECOSYSTEM CERTIFICATION
RELEASE
Software, Data & Solution Compliance
Compliance across the digital product.

For connected and software-driven products, compliance can extend beyond the physical device. ATRI has experience supporting requirements involving software quality, data and privacy, security, platform requirements and solution-level compliance.

SOFTWARE QUALITY
DATA & PRIVACY
GDPR
SECURITY
PLATFORM / ECOSYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
APPLICABLE ISO PROGRAMS
SOLUTION-LEVEL COMPLIANCE
One Product. Multiple Assurance Layers.
Reliability and compliance across the complete product.
PHYSICAL PRODUCT
Mechanical · thermal · environmental · materials
ELECTRONICS
Electrical safety · power · EMC · component stress
CONNECTIVITY
RF · wireless · regulatory requirements
EMBEDDED SOFTWARE
Function · compatibility · robustness · recovery
CLOUD & APPLICATION
Software quality · security · privacy · operational reliability
COMPLETE SOLUTION
System validation · product assurance · market readiness
Reliability in the Field
Reliability engineering continues after release.

Testing predicts behavior. The field provides additional evidence. ATRI can use test results, observed failures, field performance and product data to refine reliability assumptions and drive continued product improvement.

FIELD PERFORMANCE
FAILURE / SERVICE DATA
ANALYZE
UPDATE RELIABILITY MODEL
CORRECT / IMPROVE
VALIDATE
NEXT PRODUCT / REVISION

This connects naturally to ATRI’s Lifecycle Services, which carry the product through its ongoing operational life.

Selected Engineering Experience
Reliability & compliance engineering in practice.
Reliability Program
Accelerated Reliability & Product Assurance
ATRI developed an end-to-end reliability and product-assurance system for a commercial electromechanical product, including purpose-built environmental test equipment, accelerated-life testing, extended duty-cycle operation, failure investigation, corrective engineering and validation. The program was designed to evaluate long-term field reliability before products accumulated equivalent operating time in customer environments.
HALT Program
Embedded Product HALT & Reliability
ATRI applies accelerated stress and HALT methodologies across embedded products to identify design weaknesses, investigate failure mechanisms and improve robustness before field deployment. Reliability analysis and corrective engineering can span electronics, firmware, thermal design, mechanical systems, power and other interacting product elements.
Compliance Program
Product Compliance & Market Readiness
ATRI supports hardware, software and connected products through compliance and certification programs spanning product safety, RF/regulatory requirements, environmental/material requirements, software quality, ecosystem compatibility and solution-level compliance. Experience includes programs involving FCC, UL, CE, RoHS, REACH, ENERGY STAR, Microsoft ecosystem requirements and other applicable standards.
Engineering Problems We Solve
Bring us the reliability or compliance challenge.
How do we determine whether a product will survive its expected field life?
How do we accelerate years of operating stress into a practical engineering test program?
How do we use Weibull analysis and field data to project failures and plan warranty exposure?
Where is the product’s reliability margin insufficient?
How do we find weaknesses before they become customer failures?
What actually caused the failure—and how do we prevent it from recurring?
How do we engineer a corrective action and prove that it worked?
What requirements must the product satisfy in its target markets?
How do we design toward compliance rather than discover problems at final certification?
How do we assure hardware, software and the complete connected solution together?
Multidisciplinary Engineering
Reliability and compliance touch the entire product.
Embedded Solutions
Electronics reliability · firmware · hardware interfaces · corrective engineering
Power Electronics
Component stress · thermal behavior · power-system reliability · EMC
Industrial & Mechanical Engineering
Environmental systems · thermal · mechanical robustness · test equipment
Communications & Wireless
RF performance · wireless regulatory requirements · connectivity
Software & Control Systems
Software quality · runtime reliability · control-system validation · ecosystem compatibility
Video & IoT
Connected-device reliability · cameras · sensors · field environments
Robotics & Autonomous Systems
Machine reliability · controls · mechanisms · integrated systems
AI & ML
AI-enabled product behavior and applicable system validation
Supporting Positioning
From reliability engineering to market readiness.

ATRI combines reliability analysis, accelerated testing, product assurance, failure investigation, corrective engineering and compliance support within the broader product-engineering lifecycle.

Find the weaknesses. Understand them. Fix them. Prove the improvement. Prepare the product for the real world.

What are you trying to prove, improve or certify?
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