 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
• 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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