Reliability engineering is a term used to describe the ability of a component or system to meet certain performance standards over a certain period of time, assuming normal operating conditions.
Experts in this field believe reliability engineering activity should be an ongoing process starting at the conceptual phase of a product design and continuing throughout all phases of a product lifecycle. The goal needs to be to identify potential reliability problems as early as possible in the product lifecycle.
Reliability engineering helps organizations quantify product quality by adding the dimension of time to the quality equation. In other words, reliability engineering is about more than knowing whether a product can perform its intended function at the moment of purchase.
Instead, reliability engineering focuses on making sure that the product works without major malfunctions under normal conditions for as long as possible.
Reliability engineering does not only help organizations produce more reliable products, but it also informs maintenance teams on how to maintain them to increase MTBF (mean time between failures) and asset life span.
Reliability engineering deals with the prediction, prevention and management of high levels of “lifetime” engineering uncertainty and risks of failure. Although stochastic parameters define and affect reliability, reliability is not only achieved by mathematics and statistics.
The objectives of reliability engineering include:
To apply engineering knowledge and specialist techniques to prevent or to reduce the likelihood or frequency of failures.
To identify and correct the causes of failures that do occur despite the efforts to prevent them.
To determine ways of coping with failures that do occur, if their causes have not been corrected.
To apply methods for estimating the likely reliability of new designs, and for analyzing reliability data.
Using a reliability engineering approach has many benefits for organizations, such as an increase in production. Using reliability engineering techniques can minimize the time and resource impact of run-in or burn-in operations.
Eliminating or minimizing the time we reduce inventory carrying costs, tooling costs, and energy requirements.
Reliability engineering can also reduce unanticipated failures, which cost time for customers and reduced profit for companies.
Reliability has also proven effective at reducing a system’s throughput by minimizing downtime, which can be improved by applying predictive and preventative maintenance throughput.
Reliability Engineering Training Course by Tonex
Reliability Engineering Training is considered a technology and business issue of urgent priority for many organizations worldwide.
Reliability Engineering Training Courses cover key Reliability Engineering topics, such as:
Reliability Management Training
Reliability Engineering Courses
Strategic Management, Failure Analysis
Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Product Life Cycle Engineering
Systems Engineering
Ethics
Safety and Liability
System Safety
Hazard Analysis
DFMEA: Failure Modes and Effects Analysis — Design
PFMEA: Failure Modes and Effects Analysis – Process
FMECA
FTA
Reliability Block Diagram (RBD)
Risk Based Testing (RBT)
Probability and Statistics for Reliability
Reliability Testing
Reliability Test Planning
Statistical process control (SPC)
Reliability in Design and Development
Design of Experiments (DOE)
Design for X (DFX)
Reliability Modeling and Simulation and Maintainability and Availability.
These key topics ensure the dependability of products and services throughout its life cycle. Learn how to construct and analyze design FMEA, process FMEA, FTA, RBD for any new product by being proactive and address potential failures before they occur.
This multidisciplinary training program focuses on the use of management systems, analysis techniques and advanced condition-based and preventive technologies to identify, manage and eliminate failures leading to losses in system function.
Who Benefits from Reliability Training
Reliability engineering applies to reliability engineers, as well as design engineers, quality engineers, or system and software engineers. Tonex Reliability Training benefits most engineering specializations including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and applied statistics.
Additionally, these courses are excellent for product managers, project managers and production supervisors or anyone else who wants to learn the foundation of reliability engineering through hands-on activities and directed classroom discussion.
Tonex offers 17 different courses in the Reliability Engineering arena. These classes are taught by some of the best instructors in the world — specialists in their areas with real world experience.
And remember, Tonex courses can be tailored to meet specific individual or organizational needs.
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