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Increasingly, production organizations deploy reliability engineering techniques like Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), including failure modes and effects (and criticality) analysis (FMEA,FMECA), root cause analysis (RCA), condition-based maintenance, improved work planning schemes, etc. These same organizations are beginning to adopt life cycle cost-based design and procurement strategies, change management schemes and other advanced tools and techniques in order to control the root causes of poor reliability. However, the adoption of the more quantitative aspects of reliability engineering by the production reliability assurance community has been slow. This is due in part to the perceived complexity of the techniques and in part due to the difficulty in obtaining useful data.

The Training Course Will Highlight ?

This course is an introduction to concepts in engineering design, testing, and management for highly reliable components and systems. Introduction to Reliability Engineering covers methods of reliability analysis for the design and assessment of engineering components and systems. Topics include behavior of engineering systems and reliability concepts such as probability of failure, indices of reliability, independence, redundancy, and systems structure. It introduces methods of parameter estimation, life testing, quality assurance, and reliability verification.

This course teaches the principles of improving asset management and maintenance decision using fundamental principles of Reliability Engineering. Attending this course will broaden ones technical ability to tackle asset reliability in a more effective manner using the many tools learned. The purpose of this course is to provide an introductory body of information that will give the engineer, engineering manager, or corporate manager the resources to start the process of organizing a reliability department within the company.

Training Objective

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

Understand elements of reliability program plans and other documents that are necessary to support customer requirements
Identify the reliability characteristics that are critical to the design and development of electronic systems
Understand the Design for Reliability (DfR) and the tools used
Use the design tools necessary to ensure a reliable product including prediction, allocation, and FMEA
The student will gain an appreciation of the importance of reliability to system and product success
How to apply reliability statistics to improve asset management
What is the Life Cycle Cost philosophy
The steps for performing a LCC analysis
The simple 5 Why method of failure investigation
Fundamentals of Event and Causal Factor Mapping for incidents and failures
Fundamentals of using Logic Trees to uncover the physical, human, and latent causes of failures
Fundamental RCM philosophies
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis for RCM
The difference between FMEA and FMECA
How to identify mechanical, electrical, and stationary failure modes using condition monitoring (PdM) technologies
How to identify the common traps of each PdM technology
Basics in the usage of Monte Carlo simulation in RCM and Availability analyses
Components of Human Factors Engineering in reliability
The important terms and definitions in reliability statistics
How to apply basic statistics in the maintenance environment
How to calculate Net Present Value (NPV)
The importance of RCM, RCM terminology
Evaluating failure consequences

Target Audience

Maintenance managers, reliability and maintenance engineers, top level maintenance technicians, production managers, plant engineers, design engineers, reliability engineers/technicians, operators, safety engineers, risk engineers, safety engineers and anyone who is involved in Reliability Engineering strategies or methodologies to include design engineers for capital projects engineers

Training Methods

Daily Agenda