Reliability Training Technical Paper Effective Reliability Program Traits and Management by Fred Schenkelberg, Ops A La Carte Paper The purpose of this tutorial is to highlight key traits for the effective management of a reliability program. The basic premise is no single list of reliability activities will work for every product. Every product development and production team faces a different history, constraints, and a different set of variables and uncertainties. Such that what worked for the last program may or may not be appropriate for the current project. There are a handful of key traits that separate the valuable programs from the merely busy programs. These traits and the underlying structure can provide a framework to create a cost effective and efficient reliability …
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RAMS Technical Paper
RAMS Technical Paper Effective Reliability Program Traits and Management - RAMS 2011 - Fred Schenkelberg - Paper The purpose of this tutorial is to highlight key traits for the effective management of a reliability program. The basic premise is no single list of reliability activities will work for every product. Every product development and production team faces a different history, constraints, and a different set of variables and uncertainties. Such that what worked for the last program may or may not be appropriate for the current project. There are a handful of key traits that separate the valuable programs from the merely busy programs. These traits and the underlying structure can provide a framework to create a cost effective and efficient reliability program. A product's design, …
ORT Technical Paper
HALT Technical Paper From HALT results to an Accurate Field MTBF, the HALT Calculator - RAMS 2010 - Harry McLean and Mike Silverman - Paper Summary & Conclusions As HALT takes only a few days to run and to implement its corrective action(s), and even if it takes a bit longer, this time would be far less than waiting for an RT to be run and to implement its corrective action(s). This paper discusses a mathematical model which can be a huge time and cost saver. By not performing life tests and simply doing an effective HALT, time and money will be saved. Field Failure Rate Estimate from HALT Results - 2008 - Harry McLean - Paper Overview of AFR Estimator The AFR Estimator is a patent pending mathematical model that, when provided with the appropriate HALT and product information,, will …
Green Reliability Technical Paper
Green Reliability Technical Paper Green Reliability - RAMS 2011 - Paper "Going green" is a term that is increasingly used, is not well understood, and has many economic and technical implications - from the materials being used to the type of energy being used, and the quantity being consumed. Each aspect of going green also has reliability implications due to the inherent reliability risks that arise when we change material properties or design concepts. Companies have yet to address the reliability aspects when going green. Without established taxonomies for design of environmentally friendly products, the "Green Revolution" will come and go without much impact on our environment. And even the standards that are being developed do not address the topic of reliability. If a product fails …
FMEA Technical Paper
FMEA Technical Paper FMEA on FMEA by Mike Silverman - paper Summary & Conclusions Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a systematic technique of identifying, analyzing and preventing product and process problems before they occur. When implemented properly, FMEA is one of the most valuable reliability and design tools. Improperly executed causes FMEA's to be at best a waste of resources and time and at worst, steers you in the wrong direction resulting in missed failure modes. In this paper we perform FMEA on FMEA, exploring how FMEA's can go wrong and how to avoid these common pitfalls. …
