Consulting Services

Are you.

• Starting a new reliability, safety, or risk assessment project?
• Trying to complete an existing one?
• In need of validating your analysis results with an outside view?
• Not sure where to start with your process, system, or components?

Count on Item Software when you need extra help. For years Item Software has provided more than just RAMS and Risk Assessment software tools to companies large and small.

Our Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety and Risk Assessment engineers can provide consulting services to assist you in conducting your analyses. Our experienced, worldwide staff is able to help you with any size project or analysis, across nearly any industry. We can work with you on your RAMS and Risk analysis projects from beginning to end, under strict confidentially.

Our approach to consulting is to deliver the most complete and accurate results and analysis, including your team as much or as little as you wish in the process. Many of our clients have asked that we train their team as we go, making them self-sufficient by the end of the project. We gladly deliver, discuss, and defend all results, project files, and knowledge gained during and after the project. We consider ourselves an extension of your team, delivering on task and on schedule.

We want your experience with our consulting group to be unmatched in the industry. From the very first contact, you will discover that we have your interests at the forefront of our proposals and methodologies. Many clients have taken advantage of our expertise when conducting Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety and Risk Assessment, saving time, money and other valuable resources.

Aerospace
Trying to decide which design is the safest? Should you invest in space capsule design A or B? Item has already provided risk and safety analyses to companies in the growing commercial space market. Utilizing Quantitative Risk Assessment, scenarios were built to analyze the safety and risk of the spacecraft.

Electronics
Item Software continues to perform electronic and electro-mechanical reliability analyses for companies large and small. Whether it is only a few components, or your entire product/component database, Item Software has the experience and tools to calculate the MTBF and failure rate of many components and devices. Performing FMECA analysis on the entire system or just a single subsystem. Let us do your "what if" analysis and show you the best approach in components, subsystems or systems selection.

Manufacturing
Need to take your manufacturing reliability and processes to the next level? Item Software has helped companies refine and control their internal manufacturing processes. Your clients demand results of analyses that you might not be familiar with. Item has that experience, and we are very willing to help you learn the steps needed for a successful analysis and implementation of methodologies such as process and design FMEA, reliability and maintainability programs.

Medical
Being experienced in Reliability, Safety analysis, and ISO 14971, Item Software has been contracted to assist and conduct reliability and safety assessment on medical devices such as laser scanners and medicine dispensing automation, in preparation for FDA approval. Using Reliability Prediction, FMECA (ISO 9000 and ISO 14971), Fault Tree, and other methodologies, Item has been instrumental in making these devices safer and more reliable for the stakeholders.

Military
For over 20 years Item Software has been instrumental in many military projects. From combat vehicles or transport systems, interchangeable gun systems to safety of large weapon systems. Assisting clients with basic to complex electronics and mechanical reliability prediction, availability and maintainability of on board communication systems and most recently, multiple weapon safety analyses for the United States Navy and Quantitative Risk Assessment for the Air Force. Item Software has been sharing its expertise and offering solutions to many clients within the military sector.

Telecommunication
Are you designing or rolling out new technology? Need to know system availability, reliability, or state analysis? Item Software has helped several emerging and established companies to perform a variety of analyses, and train their staff on how to perform these analyses on their own.

Please use the Contact Us page and let us know about your analysis needs and to see how Item Software may be of assistance to you.

For more information, call us on:

North & South America: 714-935-2900

U.K. & Rest of World: +44 1489 885085

Software Customization

Being responsive to the varied and unique needs of our customers is a tradition at Item Software. Our Software Technology Group offers Software Customization to better meet your specific requirements. Or, Item will undertake development of entirely new software solutions to your RAMS, system safety or risk assessment problems. All customization and new software development will adhere to the same high standards of quality and technical excellence as other Item products.