INTREPID’s strength in manufacturing engineering and design assurance goes to the heart of our systems thinking tradition. Good system analysis and disciplined system engineering practices beget low risk and robust designs that meet reliability and maintainability requirements. They are compatible with well engineered manufacturing processes that are efficient, cost-effective, and optimized to meet cost, schedule, and production rate requirements.

At INTREPID, our specialty engineers are skilled in all aspects of manufacturing analysis, from software and hardware quality, to logistics, to safety, and materials and process engineering.

Quality Engineering

At INTREPID, we know quality engineering―both software and hardware quality assurance―from the inside out. By applying engineering and management principles, criteria, and techniques, our specialty engineers optimize system effectiveness while supporting critical schedule and cost constraints throughout all phases of the system life cycle.

INTREPID offers quality engineering services in the following areas:

• Quality management systems
• Software quality assurance
• Hardware quality assurance
• Process improvement
• Configuration management
• Capability maturity modeling

Quality engineering begins with the contract requirements definition and the statement of work. It continues in an iterative process through project planning, requirements definition, software design, development, testing, and deployment.

Reliability, Availability, Maintainability,
and Testability (RAM-T) Engineering

INTREPID has deep knowledge and experience in applying manufacturing engineering principles to assure the reliability, availability, and maintainability of the system, and to assure that these qualities can be measured and verified. We are equipped with state-of-the-art tools to model and simulate processes to optimize flow while sustaining measurable quality standards at minimum risk.

INTREPID provides these reliability, availability, maintainability, and testability engineering services:

• Program management
• System and subsystem analysis for failure modes, effects, and criticality
• Reliability
• Predictions and allocations
• System Reliability Modeling and Simulation
• Demonstration, testing, and qualification
• Parts obsolescence management

Material Management

INTREPID'S material management services help you balance the tradeoffs between component design, obsolescence management, and cost.

INTREPID offers material management services in the following areas:

• Component and system state obsolescence assessments
• Electronic component sourcing
• Discovering candidate replacements for obsolete devices
• Obsolescence management planning
• Future obsolescence forecasting
• Cost and time modeling solution options
• Solution implementation and management

Logistics & Human Factors Engineering

Logistics and human factors engineering identifies the manpower and personnel integration required to execute each task, the equipment, software, and training they need to be successful, and the types of support required to sustain them.

INTREPID has built an extremely strong team of logistics specialists with experience in maintenance and supply analysis, transportability analysis, manpower and personnel planning, training course and interactive technical manual development, facilities requirements definition, and logistics modeling.

INTREPID provides the following logistics and human factors engineering services:

• Identify and Describe Human Factor functions required to meet Projected Objectives
• Analyze Human Factors Functions to Determine the Optimum Allocations of Personnel, Equipment, and Software
• Analyze each task using manpower footprint domains.
• Define specific tasks required to accomplish specific functions.
• Identify high risk areas.

Safety Engineering

System safety engineering influences safety-critical systems designs to strategically mitigate risk to acceptable levels before a system is fielded. This is achieved by conducting hazard analyses to identify risks, and then specifying design safety features and procedures to avert problems. INTREPID’s safety engineers employ proven system safety methods and techniques to prevent, eliminate, and control hazards and risks in system software, hardware, and occupational health and safety applications.

INTREPID provides the following system safety engineering services:

• Define the system: requirements, drawings, and functional analysis.
• Identify and evaluate system hazards, using preliminary hazard, system/subsystem analysis, and fault tree analysis.
• Develop hazard controls by design, by adding safety devices, and procedurally.
• Assess risk and apply risk mitigation strategies.
• Verify hazard controls through testing and inspection.
• Resolve and report identified hazards.