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New Methods for Life Data Analysis-A Management Overview- Seven
case studies show the latest methods and applications in a PowerPoint™
presentation. The presentation
emphasizes the benefits of Weibull analysis.
The PowerPoint slide show is designed for group presentations to
managers and engineers. The package also
includes how-to-do-the-case-studies, step-by-step, in a Word™ document. This material compliments the Weibull
training video so they are packaged together on one CD for $98.00
plus shipping and handling charges (shipping costs are US$30 for continental
USA, and US$50 for most international locations)—not a bad price for this new
CD which contains:
- A PowerPoint presentation for management about how to extract factual business decisions from data by performing a life data analysis.
- A Word document contains tutorial information about Weibull analysis for engineers who will conduct the PowerPoint presentation.
- A Weibull analysis training film describing how to analyze life data.
Seven case studies are described in the PowerPoint presentation and the Word document provides coaching notes for the presenter of the slides:
- Forecasting future failures-
Using a set of life data from warranty failures management wants to know how many futures failures to expect, when failures will occur, what warranty costs to expect, and what corrective action they should support. - Minimizing R&D testing-
Using a small set of mixed failure mode data, forecast how many failures will be uncovered, when will we meet the contractual reliability requirement, and just how good is the current configuration. - Forecast warranty claims-
By age and calendar time, predict claims expected in the next 36 months and how many mixed failure mode claims expected next month. - Substantiation and reliability testing-
The issue is to demonstrate a specified reliability at a specified confidence for a set length testing time. Also we want to verify the new design is 2X better than the old design to avoid contentious contractual arguments. - Accelerated testing to reduce costs-
Using higher testing temperatures and shorter tests times we want to forecast actual life at the lower operating temperatures. - Is the new design better than our competitors-
Can we prove with our test results used for sales presentations by our marketing department that out design is better than our competitors? - Which distribution best fits the data we have recorded-
Can we answer the never ending question about which mathematical technique best describes our recorded data and the question is answer with cable failure data.
Kevin
E. Bauman PE, CRE, Global Reliability Engineering Discipline Team Leader, Dow
Chemical, wrote, “I received the CD and reviewed it. This is an excellent tutorial for our Weibull
students. It is definitely worth
sharing. Once I started, I was hooked
and went through all the presentations (video, PowerPoint presentation, and
Word coaching notes).”
New
Methods for Life Data Analysis will
be of particular interest to managers
for saving time/money, six-sigma black
belts for handling skewed data, engineers
for making sense out of what appears to be nonsense failure data, warranty analysts for predicting future
events from history records, test
engineers for minimizing tests costs while maximizing credibility, and reliability, maintainability, and support
(RMS) personnel for applying scientific results to develop improvement program
strategies.
In the mid 1980’s the training film was produced on how to perform a Weibull Analysis. This CD of the training film shows how to make Weibull plots by hand using a reference to the first edition of The New Weibull Handbook. Of course many improvements in Weibull analysis have occurred in the last 15-20 years. The New Weibull Handbook by Dr. Robert B. Abernethy is now in the 5th edition and by use of WinSMITH Weibull software construction of Weibull plots are now very easy.
You can also download a taste of a complete home study kit:
You can download demonstration versions
of the software (the demo versions will randomize your input data
slightly).
You can also download the first chapter
of The New Weibull Handbook.
Also available for download is a short
PDF file that shows excerpts from the Basic
Weibull/Visual Software Training Manual.
This PDF literally shows you how to make Weibull plots and Crow-AMSAA
reliability growth plots.
This download information will help you with decisions about the software and
how you interpret a Weibull plot.
You can order the New Methods CD by email or by sending a purchase order to Paul
Barringer at Barringer &
Associates, Inc.
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