When Hottinger Bru?el & Kjær (HBK)’s customer - a world leading supplier of tissue-based cancer diagnostic systems for anatomic pathology - faced unplanned downtime and performance variability in pathology diagnostic systems, they utilised HBK’s Reliasoft software to overcome these challenges.

The client’s issues - limited visibility into long-term reliability, failure drivers and lifecycle risk - was impacting lab efficiency and new product development. By implementing HBK’s ReliaSoft Master Suite, their engineering teams could proactively analyse risk, model system uptime, track reliability maturation during development and predict long-term performance from accelerated test data.

This holistic Design for Reliability (DfR) program provides objective evidence of system robustness, accelerates product development with confidence, optimises service strategies and ensures the high uptime essential for modern diagnostic laboratories.

The Design for Reliability (DfR) program, powered by the HBK ReliaSoft Master Suite, enabled the company to transform reliability from a reactive ‘fix-it’ exercise into a proactive, predictive discipline. This ensured that the company not only met the demands of today’s labs, but also engineered the rock-solid foundation for the next generation of diagnostic innovation.

The full case study is available to read on HBK’s website: https://www.hbkworld.com/en/knowledge/resource-center/case-studies/case-study-medical-diagnostics-reliasoft