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Solving Your Toughest Product Reliability Challenges with Ansys Reliability Engineering Services

Ansys Reliability Services ensures your systems perform as intended and function without failure. We focus on systematically applying the best engineering practices and techniques to help you create more cost-effective, reliable products in the electronics industry.

What are Reliability Engineering Services?

Ansys Reliability Engineering Services (RES), formally DfR Solutions is the leader in delivering comprehensive reliability solutions to the electronics industry. With our team of reliability experts and a 20,000-square-foot laboratory and test facility, Ansys RES plays a crucial role in optimizing product reliability and accelerating time to market for our clients. With expertise in design for excellence, accelerated life testing, failure analysis, component reliability, electronics manufacturing, materials characterization, and simulation, the Reliability Engineering Services team helps you in any stage of the product life cycle solve their most challenging reliability problems. 

How Can We Help You?

Our team has been solving product reliability problems for nearly 20 years across all industry verticals that use, design, or manufacture electronics. Delivering over 300 projects per year, our engineers and scientists see and solve more electronics reliability issues in a year than a product engineer will see in a career. This extensive experience lets us quickly identify the right approach to solving reliability problems and help implement cost-effective and timely solutions.  

Although our customers come to us with a wide variety of challenges, the following list describes the most common reasons customers seek our help:  

  • Identify the root cause of failures in tests or the field and how to prevent those failures from reoccurring.
  • Assess and quantify the reliability risks associated with a new product design to help inform design, test, support, and warranty decisions. 
  • Define and quantify the reliability impact of design choices at the system or component level. 
  • Optimize the component or system reliability testing approach to minimize test time and cost. 
  • Implement simulation approaches to reliability prediction at any stage of the design process to avoid reliability surprises.
  • Enable more accurate simulation through expert materials characterization and modeling. 
  • Educate design teams on the best practices of reliability physics and design for excellence, helping reliability from the earliest stages of product development. 
Solving product reliability problems

Featured Lab Capabilities

Ansys’ multi-million dollar test lab facility features 20,000 square feet of lab and test space, including 25 environmental chambers, component and sub-system testing and a full-service material characterization and failure analysis lab.

Our team of RES experts have decades of experience to get to the root of the problem, mitigate failure risks and devise practical solutions—all within your timeline and cost constraints. 

  • X-Ray
  • Digital Image Correlation (DIC)
  • Optical / Acoustic Microscopy
  • Mechanical Shock / Drop testing
  • Vibration Testing
  • Temperature Cycling
  • Elevated Humidity Testing
  • Mechanical Testing
  • Custom Test Chambers & Fixtures
  • Battery Quality Assessment
  • Scanning Electronic Microscopy (SEM)
  • Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS)
  • Sample Preparation
  • Contamination Analysis

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Accelerated Life Testing

Accelerated life speeds testing on a device to quickly answer your product reliability before launch.

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Battery Reliability

As your company and its products increasingly rely on battery power, it’s critical that you consider battery safety, reliability and performance.

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Electronics Failure Analysis

When your product fails, you need to know why and understand how to fix it. Our comprehensive electronics failure analysis provides you with answers and mitigation strategies.

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Integrated Circuit Reliability

Using simulation, testing and teardown, the Ansys RES team provides you with potential failure risk analysis and key drivers of IC reliability.

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Materials Characterization

Correct simulation analyses require correct material inputs. Our team provides you with materials characterization of desired components, boards and more.

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Product Design Review

Our third-party design review is delivered by subject matter experts to provide a comprehensive assessment and optimization of your product design.

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Reliability Engineering Courses

Electronics technologies and performance requirements are changing every day. Schedule a class with our subject matter experts to stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and standards.

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Simulation Services

Our team will work with you to build a virtual prototype of your product to guarantee reliability before the physical build.

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Simulation Validation and Verification Testing

How do you know if your simulation results are accurate? Our team works with you to build physical tests to confirm your simulation accuracy.

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Supplier Assessment

Electronic systems can contain thousands of parts made by a host of different suppliers. Our third-party assessment provides you with a thorough understanding of your suppliers’ components.

What Our Customers Say

"I am truly satisfied with the Failure Analysis Investigation of Ansys RES. In addition to identification of root cause for failure and failure mode of electronic devices/components, further insight and education is also provided regarding the type of failure! The staff is always available, well-versed and extremely professional."

Candi Hudson, PhD
Schlumberger Failure Analysis Laboratory

“We are very glad to have invited Ansys Reliability Engineering Services to work on root cause failure analysis, process assessment and auditing, device testing methodologies, etc. Their work not only greatly improved our product integrity, but also raised our skills ranging from materials control and failure analysis to reliability process and methodologies. They truly bring in the professional excellence!” 
 

Geoffrey Leu
Opto Division GM, Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd

“Ansys Reliability Engineering Services provided a design review of our high value measurement system and recommended many ways to improve reliability through design modification, component changes, improved specifications and test plans. We were very pleased with the results of their analysis. The RES team was highly professional and we will continue to use their services again and again.” 
 

Kent Kalar, CEO
SensorTran, Inc.

Ansys Reliability Engineering Services Team Identifies Root Cause of Failure for Electronics Manufacturer

Electronics Failure Analysis

“A combination of design review and simulation allowed us to determine what was causing the solder joint failure and provide our customer with detailed recommendations on how to prevent the failure from reoccurring.”

 - Mike Howard, Director, Electronics Reliability

Explore How

A power generation company engaged Ansys Reliability Engineering Services (RES) to quickly design and implement a method for validating the reliability of a new hydrogen fuel cell flow-rate valve. The company faced sporadic field failures of its existing valves, requiring an immediate solution without disrupting energy operations. Ansys RES conducted accelerated life tests, delivering crucial data that supported the replacement process. This approach ensured the company maintained operations and secured the long-term reliability of its field equipment while meeting client demands for a reliable new flow-rate valve.

FAQs

Our approach to every reliability challenge begins with understanding the physics affecting product reliability (i.e., reliability physics). Whether dealing with a field failure, reliability impacts of design choices, or planning and conducting a test, our first goal is to understand the failure mechanisms of concern and the forces driving them to cause product failure. Understanding the physics of the problem allows us to define solutions that address the actual root cause and prevent failures from occurring.  

  • Electronics Manufacturing 
  • Automotive Design and Components 
  • Semiconductor 
  • Robotics 
  • Railway 
  • Aerospace 
  • Consumer Electronics 
  • Healthcare 
  • Telecommunications 
  • Energy 
  • High Tech 
  • Industrial Equipment