Relex Reliability Prediction Provides Critical MTBF Calculations

Bustronic Corporation, an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance backplanes, expanded its high-volume capabilities earlier this year with extensive capital investments that included a complete SMT assembly line, a multi-solvent backplane cleaning machine, and the Relex Reliability Prediction software module. According to Bustronic officials, the company's growth and circumspect management during the technology boom provided Bustronic and its parent company, ELMA Electronic, with ample resources for expansion during a period in which most of the industry has been forced to drastically reduce spending.

To better position itself for anticipated growth in the backplane marketplace, Bustronic is investing in its future by continuously expanding and improving their processes, products, and services. To ensure quality products and next-generation innovations, Bustronic's test engineering team has begun using the Relex MTBF software in many of their projects. According to Fred Hirsch, General Manager of Bustronic, this top-of-the line MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) software package is not only extremely powerful but also easy to use.

"The Relex team has been quite helpful in answering questions and actually came out to our site in California to show Bustronic how the product worked," said Hirsch. "We recently used the Relex software in the design of a custom military backplane and calculated the MTBF with positive results." By combining creative engineering, highly sophisticated computer simulation, and modern design techniques, Bustronic's custom design service is able to offer customized backplanes that meet even the most specialized system requirements.

About Bustronic Corporation

Founded in 1989, Bustronic Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance Eurocard backplanes for telecommunications, military/aerospace, industrial control, medical, and commercial applications. A member of the ELMA Electronic group, Bustronic also offers standard and custom designs in the CompactPCI, VME, VME64x, VME320, H.110 CTEL, VXI, ISA, and switched fabric architectures. The company, located in Fremont, California, belongs to PICMG and VITA. For more information about Bustronic, visit www.bustronic.com.

About Relex Software Corporation

Relex Software Corporation is a world leader in reliability analysis software. Its products are used by thousands of engineers in a variety of businesses around the globe. In business since 1986, Relex Software Corporation asserts that its mission is to produce a superior line of high-quality software tools for reliability analysis. Long-recognized for their user-friendly, state-of-the-art features, the modular tools in the Relex Reliability Software Suite include an intuitive graphical user interface, support for scientific graphical charts, an enhanced CAD interface, visual system modeling with redundancy support, completely customizable output reports, extensive parts libraries, and a comprehensive online help system. For more information about Relex Software Corporation, call 724.836.8800 or visit www.relex.com.