Reliability Techniques

Customers are now demanding more functions from products, but have come to expect almost perfect reliability. However, many manufacturers fail to understand the application of reliability techniques to product development, and reliability studies are often seen as complex and difficult to apply. The aim of this course is to remove the mystique and show how reliability techniques may be used to maximise benefits for improvements to products.

Course Content

Introduction
- Reliability background and history
- Definitions
- Reliability scope
- Data inputs
- Reliability statistics

Failure Patterns and Analysis
- Bathtub model
- Random failure
- Weibull model
- Capability and reliability
- Pattern recognition software
- Reliability growth modelling
- System reliability models

Supporting Methodologies
- FMEA
- FMECA
- Fault Tree Analysis
- Design for Assembly

Test Plan Design
- Determining MTTF / MTBF
- Confidence limits

Reliability Management
- Implementation issues