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WinSMITH Weibull & WinSMITH Visual Basic Training Class For Reliability Software |
WinSMITH Weibull (WSW) and WinSMITH Visual (WSV) are two excellent software tools for making reliability data “speak”. This page describes a 1, 1.5, or 2-day, basic, training course in how to use the software to solve problems using software written by Fulton Findings to solve reliability problems. The Basic Weibull/Visual Software Training Class will teach engineers how to use WSW probability plotting software and WSV Crow-AMSAA growth plotting software for most common applications.
This course is more elementary and uses different examples than listed in the PlayTIME with SuperSMITH computer tutorial which is intended to show the complete set of features for WSW and WSV. PlayTIME with SuperSMITH is used by Dr. Abernethy and Wes Fulton in the Weibull Analysis Workshops.
The Basic Weibull/Visual Software Training Class emphasizes how to perform the elementary features of the software for analysis and prediction of reliability features. You can download a short PDF file that shows excerpts from the Basic WSW-WSV Training Manual. This short file will help you get started with the software and how you interpret a Weibull plot or a Crow/AMSAA plot.
Each student must bring their own notebook computer or have access to a desktop computer to practice the problems demonstrated during the lecture. If each student does not have access to an authentic version of both software, then demonstration software will be used with authentic files provide by the instructor. Please note the demonstration software will function with fidelity as full strength software when authentic files saved from WSW and WSV full strength programs are used—however data hand entered by the student into the demonstration software will result in randomization of the data file.
Each student is encouraged to bring their own datasets for analysis to supplement data files supplied by the instructor so that the student can experience enlightenment in how to make his own data “speak”.
Topics for the hands-on training course are:
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The students are encouraged to bring their own data for Weibull and Lognormal data for making plots and for Crow/AMSAA plots to discuss the origin of the data and what the analysis of their data tells us concerning future failures and the opportunity for making improvements.
Who should attend the
WSW-WSV training class?
Production supervisors will find new tools for understanding how operations can make their data “talk” and how to guide the efforts of their reliability engineers.
Engineers will learn new techniques for making forecasts and putting their data into useful formats to interpret results of field failures and test programs. They will also see how the failure data is used to justify making equipment more reliable as a business decision
Maintenance supervisors will find these reliability tools helpful for providing supporting evidence during root cause failure investigations using data from their CMSS systems plus they will understand the necessity of putting accurate data into the CMMS database.
Managers will find business aspects of how to convert raw data into time and money decisions for improvement programs to reduce the cost of unreliability.
Attendees at the WSW-WSV training class are recommended to have completed the Reliability Engineering Principles (REP) training class—however; it is not a mandatory requirement. REP will familiarize students with traditional reliability issues and provide information for the cost models.
Schedules for training classes are generally conducted for individual companies and unless otherwise designated, the company sponsored classes are not generally open to others (occasionally opportunities arise for outsiders to get a seat or two as an exception)
Prices
for the training classes are posted on the Internet for 
or by telephone at 1-281-852-6810.
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