DFR, Design for Reliability Training
DFR, Design for Reliability Training Course Description
DFR, Design for reliability training provides the tools and techniques required to design reliability in a system early in its life cycle. Such designing ensures reliable performance and mission success.
DFR is an effective tool to save the costs of fixing the reliability issues in a fielded system by designing reliability upfront.
DFR, design for reliability training course will cover all the details of designing reliability process, the value added by achieving the goal, and real-life scenarios and example to get hands-on practicing.
TONEX DFR Training Features
DRF training course is delivered in a fun, interactive, and dynamic form. It includes several hands-on activities, group activities, and labs. Applicants have the option of bringing their sample work into the class or use the real-life examples our instructors will provide to practice applying what they have learned during the lecture.
Added Value of DFR Training
- Covers the concepts, processes, procedures, and tools of each stage of the life cycle.
- Covers all the topics of system design.
- Teaches attendees how to develop the design, when to use which analysis, how to choose parts and material.
- Discusses the application of flight rules, workarounds, and availability of system.
Topics Include:
- DFR module
- Planning for Reliability
- Analysis, goal setting/metrics, & program plan module
- Reliability modeling and prediction module
- Design for availability module
- Thermal analysis module
- FMECA
- FTA
- DoE
- Human engineering
- Warranty analysis
- Critical parts management
- Design for extreme conditions
- Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT)
- Reliability demonstration
- RCA
- Highly Accelerated Stress Screen (HASS)
- Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
- Subcontracted engineering and reliability
- Mechanical reliability
- Software reliability
Which Industries Could Benefit from DFR Training?
- Oil and Gas
- Electronics Design
- Communications
- Automotive
- Aerospace Engineering
- Military
- Chemical Plants
- Transportation
- Manufacturing
Audience
DFR, design for reliability training is a 3-day course designed for:
- Reliability engineers
- Practical engineers
- Production supervisors and managers
- Product design engineers
- Quality team personnel
- Project managers
- Project engineering managers
- System engineers
- Maintenance engineers and managers
- Safety engineers
- Engineering personnel
- Risk Specialists
- Maintenance strategists
- Plant Inspectors
Training Objectives
Upon the completion of DFR, design for reliability training, attendees are able to:
- Understand the process and procedures of each phase of life cycle.
- Gain detailed knowledge of designing reliability.
- Understand the concepts of reliability.
- Apply the right tools where is needed.
- Ensure all the requirements are met.
- Understand RAM concepts.
- Understand and apply reliability engineering design approaches.
- Apply proper analysis to develop design.
- Use redundancy when is needed.
- Understand mathematics of reliability
- Discuss “critical reliability” items.
- Define reliability goals, metrics, plans, and schedule.
- Monitor and enhance to estimate the reliability related costs.
- Establish processes to monitor reliability development.
- Assist production and supply chain personnel to develop their reliability strategy.
Course Modules
Overview and Introduction
- Reliability engineering definition
- RAM concepts
- Mission success
- Reliability Engineering principles
- Reliability Engineering planning and business practices
- Goals and objectives
- Systems engineering lifecycle
- Mission categories and man-rating
Define Reliability Goals & Targets
- Establishing system level reliability requirements and goals
- Allocating reliability requirements and goals
- Understanding and quantifying end-user environmental and usage conditions
What are “Critical Reliability” Items?
- Key reliability risks
- Baseline reliability performance
- Conducting functional analysis on the key risks
Reliability Lifecycle Phases
- Pre-Phase A
- Phase A
- Phase B
- Phase C
- Phase D
- Phase E
- Phase F
Reliability Engineering Design Approaches
- Design for reduced risk
- Design for extreme environments
- Design to eliminate failure modes.
- Design for fault tolerance
- Design for fail-safe
- Design for early warning of failures
- MM/OD survivability
Fundamental Reliability Mathematics
- Basic probability concepts and probability distributions
- Principles of life data analysis
- Explanation of confidence intervals
- Basics of system reliability analysis
Analyzing Reliability
- Using FMEA’s on key reliability risks
- Design Review Based on Failure Modes (DRBFM)
- Applying physics of failure for reliability predictions and system modeling
- Developing a reliability improvement plan
Quantifying and Improving Reliability Methods
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- Test Designs/Plans
- HALT/HASS (Qualitative ALT)
- Failure (Root Cause) Analysis
- Design Review Based on Test Results (DRBTR)
- Life Data Analysis
- Accelerated Life Testing (Quantitative ALT)
- System Reliability Analysis and Modeling (RBD, FTA)
- Reliability Growth
- Supplier Reliability
Applying Analysis to Drive the Design
- Perform Reliability Analysis
- RAM Simulation and modeling (Discrete Event Modeling)
- Fault Tree Analysis
- FMEA/CIL
- Worst case Analysis
- Parts Stress
- Single Event Upset/Effects Analysis
- Radiation Effects
- Thermal Analysis
- Structural Analysis
- Common Cause Failure Analysis
- Success Tree Analysis
- Parts and Materials
- GIDEP and NASA Alerts
- Flight Rules, Trade-offs, work-around, and other tools
- Human engineering/ Human Factors
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Review
- Definition of FMEA
- Advantages of FMEA?
- Why can FMEA be applied?
- Who should conduct an FMEA?
- FMEA requirements, steps & data components
- The summary report
Fault Tree Analysis Review
- Definition of FTA
- Advantages of FTA
- When an FTA can be applied
- FTA procedures
- How to analyze the fault tree data
- Related analysis
Validate Reliability
- Reliability demonstration test design
- Field reliability predictions (warranty predictions)
- Achieved reliability performance.
- Volume manufacturing and/or supplier control plan
- Monitor and control reliability.
Reliability Testing
- Development (discovery) testing
- Reliability qualification testing
- Accelerated life testing
- Manufacturing testing
Factory Audit (Reliability QA)
- Warranty Forecasting and Analysis
- FRACAS
- Communicate, Update and Maintain Knowledge Items
Mechanical Reliability Assessment – Parts and Systems
- Definition and purposes
- Steps in making an analysis
- Parts analysis techniques
- Failure data analysis
- Empirical models
- Mechanical stress/strength interference method
- Surrogate data
- System-level analysis
- RBDs
- Simulation
- Parts count
Reliability Allocation
- Modeling and trade studies
- Gap Analysis
Trending System Reliability During Operation
- Trend assessment
- Point process
- Confidence interval determination
Maintaining Reliability through Production and Operation
- Production and operation impacts on reliability
- Production concerns
- Quality of production
- Supplier selection and management
- Designing for maintainability
- Reliability information systems
- Developing a maintenance program of corrective and preventive actions
DFR, Design for Reliability Training