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Management Overview |
Reliability Engineering
Principles is a 3-day
engineering short course. REP provides
basic training for engineers in the fundamentals of reliability. REP provides the practical engineering
details not usually covered in most engineering curriculum. REP is long on practical problem solving and
short on statistical calculations as we encourage the students to use
commercial software for the statistics.
The purpose of the REP course is to boost business performance by
reducing the costs of UNreliability thorough
preventing/avoiding failures of equipment and processes. REP connects
engineering details with financial details for the business.
The Management Overview of Reliability Engineering Principles is a 1.5 hour
summary of tools discussed during the longer training session. The purpose is to educate the mangers
about training received by their engineers. When all members of the team have the same
information they can pull together for the common good of the business
enterprise. The overview helps avoid team members using the same words but
having different meaning. The Management
Overview aids in building a reliability culture for reducing costs.
A few of the subjects discussed in the overview include:
-What reliability is
(preventing/avoiding failures) and what it’s not (faster repairs).
-How to prioritize work
activities based on a Pareto list of cost problems to
concentrate on reducing the high cost of unreliability.
-Why reliability and its new
tools will help boost business performance by solving old nagging problems.
-Why failure data is important
and how to use data to solve problems on a fact driven basis rather than based
on opinions.
-Why use of failure data and
repair data in reliability models can provide alternatives for selecting the
lowest long term cost of ownership.
-How modeling failure costs
can aid in selecting the most attractive corrective action plan for reducing
the cost of unreliability.
-How conversion of
unreliability values into time and money can spring to life to guide actions
for making cost effective plans.
-Knowing reliability values
and business costs exposures guides you to know when to reject risk and when to
accept risks.
-Reliability required is dependent
upon cost of outages, and reliability demands can change depending upon
business conditions.
-Some of the reliability tools
that may be discussed, depending upon the needs of the organization, are:
• Mean time between failures—how
to use chance failure data.
• Decision
trees—how to use reliability values and find net financial resul
• Bathtub curves—how to recognize
different failure modes for improvements.
• Availability concepts—how to separate
portions of the effectiveness equation.
• Preparing data for analysis—how to
segregate data for suspensions.
• Probability plots—how to make straight line
plots from the chaos of data.
• Corrective action for Weibull modes of failure—how
to direct corrective action.
• Reliability block diagrams—how to reduce
complexity to simplified models
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• Critical items list—how to simplify
reliability problems for management reports.
• Pareto distributions—how to separate a
few vital issues from trivial many problems.
• Failure mode effect analysis—how to use
qualitative bottom-up reliability analysis.
• Fault tree analysis—how to use
experience in a top-down reliability analysis.
• Quality function deployment—how to use
the voice of the customer for reliability.
• Design reviews—how to introduce
reliability issues into new designs.
• Configuration control—how to identify and
trace future problems.
• Mechanical component interactions—how
numerous interactions lower reliability.
• Load/strength interactions—how variations
reduce the expected reliability.
• Electronic device screening and derating—how
to improve electronic reliability.
• Software reliability—how reliability
problems are started and corrected.
• Reliability testing strategies—how test/use
conditions/environments alter reliability.
• Simultaneous testing—how to test/use
inexpensive parts for quick reliability values.
• Sudden death testing—how to test/use
few expensive parts for quick reliability values.
• Accelerated testing—how to speed-up
reliability tests for quick indications.
• Reliability growth models—how to show
reliability improvements.
• FRACAS—how to use failure reporting and
corrective action systems.
• Reliability policies—how to sell the
organization a vision for reliability programs.
• Contracting for reliability—how to tell
vendors the requirements for reliability.
• Reliability audits—how to find out what's
really being implemented for reliability.
• Demonstration project—how to put reliability
tools to work for improvements.
During the Reliability Engineering
Principles training session, each student will be encouraged to take a problem
in his area an used the new tools to solve it by way of
a demonstration project. The mangers
will be encouraged during the Overview to do the follow-up to insure that a
cost reduction is achieved so the training class can be a profit contributor
rather than a cost drag on the enterprise.
The Management Overview can be a
growth event for both managers and engineers with new tools discussed for
solving old nagging problems. The REP
program uses engineering tools to get to money solutions that the business can
afford.
Barringer & Associates, Inc. are reliability consultants solving reliability problems for industry using engineering, manufacturing, and business expertise as we train you in how to solve and implement improvement programs. We specialize in solving reliability problems for profit oriented, capital intensive, and continuous process operations. Through our network of reliability experts, we get cost effective engineers assigned to solve your reliability problems efficiently and cost effectively. We want to quickly help you solve problems—we do not plan to move-in and live with you as a semi-permanent part of your staff.
Our training course in Reliability
Engineering Principles teaches engineers how to use equipment failure
data to reduce the high cost of unreliability. Failure data drive
reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) programs and support
total productive maintenance (TPM) efforts. Over 5000 engineers have received training in
the Reliability Engineering
Principles training course in the
Our training course in Life-Cycle-Cost
brings together reliability models, cost details, installation practices, operating
practices, and failure data for making good business decisions. The training
course uses
Our training course in Process Reliability teaches engineers how to study their processes, determine reliability of the process, and categorize the losses for a top-down view for identifying problems using new reliability tools. The tools prioritize the categories for attacking the problems for quickest paybacks.
Our software uses Weibull statistics in Monte Carlo models for cost effective business solutions for reliability and availability problems.
We sell Fulton Findings WinSMITH Weibull software for Weibull analysis of failure data; and we use this software to build Weibull-databases from failure data. We sell WinSMITH Visual software for reliability growth plots to predict future failures and the statistics will show if you are reducing failures, tolerating increasing failures, or muddling along with no significant improvements.
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