Reliability Engineering Introduction
Basic introduction to reliability tools and methods
3-day course (with extended practice workshop)
Designed for reliability engineers and managers
What you will learn:
- The process of reliability engineering
- How to gather and work with reliability data
- What are the failure modes and how to analyze them
- How to run statistical analysis of reliability
- How to do FMEA and RPN analysis
- How to design, run and analyze results of a reliability test
- How to analyze reliability of a complex system
- How to build Fault Tree or Reliability Block Diagram
- How to optimize redundancy, maintenance, spare parts
- How to accelerate reliability testing
Training contents
What is Reliability Engineering
Defining Reliability
Purpose of Reliability Engineering
Customers perspective
OEM perspective
What is a failure?
Reliability tools & methods
Reliability Culture
Reliability Engineering in R&D
Reliability Basics
Reliability Data
Usage environment
Model selection
Model predictions
Reliability versus time
Failure rate
Ideal Bathtub Curve
Other reliability metrics
Common language
Failure Modes
Reliability data sources
Defining failure mode
Reliability of multiple failure modes
Failure Mode Effects Analysis
Functions, Failures, Effects and Causes
Design and Process FMEA
Reliability in manufacturing
Design risk analysis
Risk sources
How to improve the design?
Reliability Testing
Types of reliability testing
Exponential distribution
Reliability demonstration tests
Failure testing
Test data analysis
Weibull distribution
Parameter estimation methods
Confidence interval calculations
Multiple Failure Models
Failure modes and censored data
System reliability model
Redundancy schemes
Fault Trees and RBDs
Types of gates and events in Fault Trees
Reliability relationship
Reliability Block Diagrams
Series and parallel systems
Maintenance Optimization
Availability and Maintainability
Monte Carlo simulations
Simulation models and outcomes
Accelerated Life Testing
Acceleration Factor
Types of stressors
Formulas for reliability demonstration testing
Quantitative ALT
QALT test setup
Life vs stress functions
Sample requirements
QALT data analysis
