A good reliability program can significantly improve a company's product performance, product longevity, and ultimately, its customer satisfaction and profitability. The sub-discipline known as DFR (Design For Reliability) is a vital component of most modern design teams. Achieving a product's reliability goals requires the proper application of both tools and techniques.
This two-day short course covers the basics of reliability theory and implementation for the design, quality and manufacturing engineer or manager.
Emphasis is placed on learning the proper application of each reliability tool and technique, and also on knowing when to apply each-and why. The tools of reliability can be divided into two categories - analytical methods and testing techniques.
A number of analytical tools will be identified and defined. Key ones used in industry today are Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Modeling, and Maintainability and Availability Analyses. Proving the reliability of a device, or product, is accomplished with such tools as Demonstration Testing, Accelerated Testing, and Weibull Plotting of Life-Test Data. The student will gain an understanding and proficiency with these reliability tools and others.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for those individuals and managers involved in the design, test and/or analysis of products, and who wish to acquire a better understanding of current reliability concepts and practices and how their proper application leads directly to better and more reliable products.
Day 1
- Relationship Between Quality and Reliability
- Reliability Plans and Schedules
- Reliability Program Elements
- Product Life Cycles
- Discrete and Continuous Distributions
- Confidence Intervals
- Hypothesis Testing
- Probabilistic Simulation Tools
- Design of Experiments
- Parts Count and Stress Predictions
- Reliability Models-Series and Parallel
Day 2
- Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems
- Root Cause Analysis
- Trend Analysis
- Quality Function Deployment
- Stress/Strength Analysis
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
- Fault Tree Analysis
- Tolerance and Worst-Case Analyses
- Derating Techniques
- Preventive Maintenance
- Reliability/Maintainability/Availability Trade-Offs
- Reliability-Centered Maintenance
- Reliability Test Plans
- Accelerated Reliability Techniques
- Step-Stress and Continuously-Increasing Stress Testing
- Test/Analyze/Fix Tests
- Product Reliability Acceptance Testing (PRAT)
- Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
- Reliability Engineer's Role in Safety and Product Liability
- Elimination of Potential Defects
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