Reliability Engineering

Reliability Engineering

One Day Training Course

Background

Reliability engineers strive to meet customer’s reliability expectations long before a product reaches the market, and they typically exert peak effort early in the design and development phases. In the production phase, quality control of manufacturing processes obviously makes a major contribution to the reliability of a product and it is essential that QC is considered an integral part of the overall reliability programme. Although the reliability engineer and quality engineer make their contribution to the reliability of the product at different phases of the design and manufacturing cycle, their work often overlaps, and it is important that the quality engineer has an understanding of reliability concepts. This introductory course on Reliability Engineering is geared towards providing a necessary knowledge of these concepts.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this training course, delegates should be able to:

• Use the Reliability/Survival module in Minitab to calculate probability of survival
• Demonstrate understanding of basic reliability measures such as MTTF, MTBF, MTTR, availability, failure rate, Bathtub curve, etc.
• Compute and evaluate reliability for redundant, series, and parallel systems

Who Should Attend

• R&D, product, process, and design engineers
• Quality engineers and technicians

A prior knowledge of statistics is not required, but the participant will require a knowledge of mathematical principles, example, Leaving Certificate maths

Course Programme

• Introduction to basic probability theory and to the probability distributions related to reliability, including the Normal, Weibull, and Exponential distributions
• Definition of basic reliability measures and terms such as MTTF, MTBF, MTTR, availability, failure rate, etc
• Interpretation of elements of the reliability life characteristics of the bathtub curve
• Computation and evaluation of reliability for redundant, series, and parallel systems
• Computation, classification and application of reliability and maintainability characteristics such as MTTF, MTBF, MTTR, availability, failure rate, etc
• Identification and application of methods to maintain and improve process and product reliability
• Analysis of reliability failure information and evaluation of possible actions to improve or correct performance

Software

Minitab software will be demonstrated as part of the training. If delegates are in a position to bring along a laptop with Minitab 15 or Minitab 16 pre-loaded (free 30 day trial of Minitab 16 available on www.minitab.co.uk) they can utilize this during the training. If delegates don’t have a laptop, they will still benefit greatly from the programme.

Course Tutor

Albert Plant

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Course Times

9.00am - 5.00pm

In-House Courses

For In-House courses the tutor will contact you in advance to discuss the course programme in more detail in order to tailor it specifically for your organisation.

Course Manual

Delegates will receive a very comprehensive course manual, which explains the basic statistics underlying reliability engineering, and reliability terminology. The manual includes several exercises on reliability calculations, which the participants will undertake, and can be used as reference material after the course.

This Course is available exclusively on an In-House basis.