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"I am pleased to entrust the courses that I have created to Ops a la Carte. I am confident that Mike Silverman and Fred Schenkelberg will present them effectively and that they will apply their own wide experience to develop them in line with changes in technology and methods."
--- Patrick O'Connor, Author of Practical Reliability Engineering, Consultant
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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
Reliability Techniques For Beginners

OBJECTIVES
A good reliability program can drastically improve product performance and longevity, and can ultimately improve customer satisfaction. This course will introduce the basic reliability concepts and will give an understanding about how to apply these concepts in order to set up a good reliability program.
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND This course is intended for those involved in design, test, or analysis, who want a better understanding of basic reliability concepts for the purpose of improving the reliability of their product
 OUTLINE
Reliability Management Relationship between Quality and Reliability Reliability plans and schedules Elements of a reliability program Product life cycles
Probability and Statistics Discrete and continuous distributions
Confidence intervals
Hypothesis testing
Probabilistic simulation tools
Design of experiments
Modeling and Prediction/b>
Parts Count and Stress Predictions
Reliability Models - Series and Parallel
Data Collection and Corrective Action Systems
Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems
Root Cause Analysis
Trend Analysis
Reliability Tools in Design and Development
Quality Function Deployment
Stress-Strength Analysis
Failure Modes Effects Analysis
Fault Tree Analysis
Tolerance and Worst-Case Analyses
Derating Techniques
Maintainability and Availability
Preventive maintenance
Reliability/maintainability/availability trade-offs
Reliability Centered Maintenance
Reliability Testing
Reliability Test Plans
Accelerated Reliability Techniques
Step-Stress and continuously increasing stress testing
Test, analyze, and fix tests
Product Reliability Acceptance Testing (PRAT)
Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)

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