Incorporating Reliability into Material Qualification

July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment

When a manufacturer of a material that is used for an entire line of products informs you that they can no longer supply this material it can be difficult to find a replacement material to perform to the same specifications. Once you’ve determined a number of potential alternative suppliers / materials, what’s next? Depending on [...]

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Issues with Building Bigger and Better Wind Turbines

July 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment

There is a great deal of development effort going toward the development of “gearless” wind turbines. The reason being that the Gearbox in wind turbines remains as one of the single largest reliability problems in the industry. On wind turbines: “Current designs can’t be scaled up economically. Most of the more than 25,000 wind turbines [...]

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Equipment Failure Definition: A Prerequisite for Reliability Test and Validation

July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Abstract While product reliability has become a major concern to most organizations, many have overlook developing good reliability specifications. This oversight can result in ambiguous and purposeless reliability testing during the validation phase of the product development. Effective reliability testing requires well-defined reliability specification. After all, the prime objective of a reliability engineering program is [...]

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Wednesday Sept 14th – Integrating Simulation into a Reliability Program

July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Online dictionaries defines the word simulation as: • the act or an instance of simulating • a representation of a problem, situation, etc, in mathematical terms, esp using a computer • imitation or enactment, as of something anticipated or in testing. • the act or process of pretending; feigning. Simulation is an integral part of [...]

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Has “Design for Reliability” become another loosely defined term of Reliability Science?

July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment

If you have been involved in the field of reliability in the past several years you most likely have heard the term “Design for Reliability” (DfR). More and more companies these days advertize DfR as part of their design process and more and more web-based and life training is offered on the DfR methods. However, [...]