Title:
"Reliability Concepts and Practices"
with Mike Silverman, Ops A La Carte

INFORMATION:
Contact our Course Registrar by email, or call 1-408-866-6516, for the course flyer.

OVERVIEW:
A good reliability program can significantly improve a company’s product performance, product longevity, and ultimately its customer satisfaction and profitability. The subdiscipline known as DFR (Design For Reliability) is a vital component of most modern design teams. Achieving a product’s reliability goals requires the proper application of both tools and techniques.

The Santa Clara Valley Reliability and CPMT Society Chapters have organized this two-day Short Course covering the basics of reliability theory and implementation for the design, quality, and manufacturing engineer or manager. In this class, emphasis is placed on learning the proper application of each reliability tool and technique, and also on knowing when to apply each -- and why. The tools of reliability can be divided into two categories - analytical methods and testing techniques.

A number of analytical tools will be identified and defined. Key ones used in industry today are Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability Modeling, and Maintainability and Availability Analyses. Proving the reliability of a device or product is accomplished with such tools as Demonstration Testing, Accelerated Testing, and Weibull Plotting of Life-test Data. The student will gain an understanding and proficiency with these reliability tools and others.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
This course is intended for those individuals and managers involved in the design, test and/or analysis of products, and who wish to acquire a better understanding of current reliability concepts and practices and how their proper application leads directly to better and more reliable products.

OUTLINE:

• Reliability Management
  Relationship Between Quality and Reliability; Reliability Plans and Schedules; Reliability Program Elements; Product Life Cycles
• Probability and Statistics
  Discrete and Continuous Distributions; Confidence Intervals; Hypothesis Testing; Probabilistic Simulation Tools;Design of Experiments
• Modeling and Prediction
  Parts Count and Stress Predictions; Reliability Models-Series and Parallel
• Data Collection and Corrective Action Systems
  Failure Reporting and Corrective Action Systems; Root Cause Analysis; Trend Analysis
• Reliability Tools in Design and Development
  Quality Function Deployment; Stress/Strength Analysis; Failure Modes and Effects Analysis; Fault Tree Analysis; Tolerance and Worst-Case Analyses; Derating Techniques
• Maintainability and Availability
  Preventive Maintenance; Reliability/Maintainability/Availability Trade-Offs; Reliability-Centered Maintenance
• Reliability Testing
  Reliability Test Plans; Accelerated Reliability Techniques; Step-Stress and Continuously-Increasing Stress Testing; Test/Analyze/Fix Tests; Product Reliability Acceptance Testing (PRAT); Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
• Product Safety and Liability
  Reliability Engineer's Role in Safety and Product Liability Elimination of Potential Defects

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Mike Silverman, Managing Partner of Ops A La Carte, received his B.S. Degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is both a Certified Reliability Engineer and a course instructor approved by the American Society of Quality (ASQ). He is an experienced leader in quality development, reliability testing and agency qualification programs, including programs for national and international safety, EMI, and Telecommunications. He has sixteen years of quality, reliability, and agency experience, primarily in start-up telecommunications companies. Mike also has extensive experience as a consultant to high-technology companies, having worked with more than twenty-five of them, including Cisco, Sun Microsystems, 3Com, Brocade and Extreme Networks. He has authored, published and presented five papers on reliability techniques.

TO REGISTER: Please call Effective Training at 1-408-866-6516 to register; or register on-line at our website.