Introduction to Reliability Engineering
This course covers a wide range of Reliability Engineering topics and is intended for engineers who need or want a working understanding of the methods available for Reliability Engineering and/or who want to decide whether to pursue a more in-depth study of Reliability Engineering.
Introduction to Reliability Engineering
Introduction to Reliability Engineering provides participants with a working knowledge of common reliability tools and methods and provides a foundation for using those tools on the job. The broad overview of tools allows the participant to determine whether further study in a particular area will be beneficial for his/her company. Whether we are considering product design or manufacturing or other equipment, reliability is concerned with having the product/equipment available when needed and improving the life of that product/equipment. The course includes many exercises intended to provide the participant with practical application of the tools/methods discussed.
Course Objectives
- Understand key reliability engineering concepts and terminology
- Learn reliability modeling techniques for system analysis
- Explore accelerated testing methods for life prediction
- Develop skills in system reliability analysis
- Apply mathematical foundations to common reliability engineering tools
Target Audience
- Engineers
- Technical Managers
Agenda
- Historical reliability failures
- Normalization of deviance
- Relationship between quality and reliability
- Definitions
- Failure mode and mechanism
- pdf, cdf, reliability
- hazard rate
- bathtub curve
- Reliability distributions
- Exponential
- MTBF vs. MTTF
- Weibull
- Lognormal
- Distribution fitting/identification
- Physics of failure
- Maximum Likelihood and Least Squares Regression
- Censoring
- Where reliability fits into the development process
- FMEA/FTA
- Reliability modeling
- Load/strength
- Apportionment
- Accelerated testing
- HALT/QALT
- Time vs. force acceleration
- Inverse Power Law
- Arrhenius model
- Designing a time accelerated test
- System reliability analysis
- Series/parallel systems
- Availability
- Common reliability tools for product/process design
Course Delivery
- In-Person Training
- Training for Teams
Prerequisites
- Participant to be comfortable with advanced algebra including exponential and logarithms
