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"Ops A La Carte did an excellent job teaching a private two-day reliability seminar for our team. We learned a lot and would certainly use them again."
---Isaac Ohel, VP Engineering, Novera Optics
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EDUCATION on the best tools for Reliability Engineering.
INTEGRATION of all Elements of Reliability Programs for Maximum Value.
Public and In-House Courses presented by world-class instructors directly in Silicon Valley.
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 Education & Seminars
Design for Safety (DfS)
This is a NEW course!
OBJECTIVES
Dramatic savings can occur through creative design practices that focus on inherent product risks very early in the design process, and on ways to minimize each risk factor. At a time when safety recalls are becoming an increasingly costly and damaging problem for companies in a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, production lines, and many others. This seminar reveals how significant cost savings can be obtained by designing for safety.
With a focus on writing clear, accurate safety specifications, attendees will engage in hands-on activities where they will practice balancing intuitive vs. logic-based design considerations. They will also discover risk-mitigation techniques that can be effectively implemented in their workplaces to prevent costly recalls.
Challenging the usual paradigm of "safety costs money," this seminar also explores the creative techniques used by several famous engineering managers to increase safety and decrease costs. Other topics include accident causes and prevention, potential misuse of product, hazard analysis (including latent hazard initiation), testing, and software safety design. A copy of instructor Dev Raheja's text Creativity: The Art of Doing Right Things Right will be provided to each participant.
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- This seminar will be especially valuable for:
- • Design engineers & managers
- • Research & development engineers & managers
- • Safety engineers & managers
- • Engineers in reliability and quality assurance
- • Service engineers & managers
- • Any engineer responsible for specification writing
- • Any manager responsible for safety, quality or risk management
- Some experience in design will be helpful but not essential
COURSE OVERVIEW
- By attending this seminar, you will be able to:
- • Predict potential accidents before the design is released
- • Design creative solutions that reduce costs and deliver higher returns
- • Write specifications that clearly define safety requirements and the desired levels of safety
- • Identify potential hazards introduced in manufacturing
- • Identify safety risks posed by product misuse
- • Prepare risk analysis reports for managers to use in decision-making
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OUTLINE
Safety in Design Concepts
 System view of safety
Boundaries of safety
Criteria for safety
Hands-On Workshop: Safety Boundaries
Theory of Accidents
Domino effect
Single causation theory
Multiple causation theory
Energy control theory
Writing Safety Specifications
Holistic considerations
Life cycle considerations
Abuse/misuse considerations
Robustness criteria for safety
Hands-On Workshop: Writing Safety Specifications
Writing Interface Specifications
Hardware/software interface
Hardware/hardware interface
Software/software interface
Software/human interface
Hardware/human interface
Safety Design Process to Fine-tune Specifications
Hazard analysis
Identifying hazards
Assessing the risk
Mitigating the risk
Cost effective control of hazards
Hands-On Workshop: Hazard Analysis
Minimizing Accidents in Early Design
Conceptual safety analysis
Logical solutions
Intuitive solutions
Innovation with high return on investment
Minimizing Accidents in Detail Design
Subsystem hazard analysis
Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis for safety
Fault tree analysis
Operations and support hazard analysis
Maintenance engineering hazard analysis
Hands-on Workshop: Safety Enhancement Through Fault Tree Analysis
Minimizing Accidents in Complex Systems
Making use of lessons learned
Design for robust human interface
Design for robust software interface
Design for sneak conditions
Avoiding Latent Hazard Initiation in Manufacturing
Process safety hazard analysis
Production qualification for safety
Safety inputs to design
Design for preventing defects in production
Hands-on workshop: Designing Out Latent Unsafe Events
Testing for Safety
Prerequisites for developing tests
Accelerated testing for safety qualification
Safety tests in production and feedback to design
Tests for unexpected user related failures
Tests for rare events
Embedded Software Safety
Software system safety concepts
Requirements analysis for safety
Software hazard analysis
Identifying new requirements for safety
Software Safety Design Control Techniques
Design control techniques
Software preliminary hazard analysis
Software failure mode and effects analysis
Selecting structure for safety
Selecting architecture for safety
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