May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
14h 27m
English
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Improving Product Reliability and Software Quality, 2nd Edition
by Mark A. Levin, Ted T. Kalal, Jonathan Rodin
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16Hiring and Staffing the Right People
16.1 Staffing for Reliability
The reliability lab will not, in and of itself, deliver all the savings to the bottom line, but it will be a substantial part of it.
First of all, one person is needed to lead the activity. This person must have either the qualifications from other experiences or be willing to transfer current career ambitions toward reliability engineering. The latter will take a lot longer to grow. It is recommended that you seek someone from outside your present staff with the experience to build your lab and install the processes that will be utilized. His/her main characteristic skill set listed in Table 16.1 will include the following:
- A reliability engineering background
- Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT)/Highly Accelerated Stress Screens (HASSs) and Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)
- Shock and vibration testing
- Statistical analysis
- Failure budgeting/estimating
- Failure analysis
- Conducting reliability training
- Persuasiveness in implementing new concepts
- A degree in engineering and/or physics
Table 16.1 Reliability skill set for various positions.
| Reliability skills | Consultant or reliability manager | Reliability engineer | Reliability technician | |
| 1 | HALT/HASS | A | B | B |
| 2 | HALT chamber experience | A | C | C |
| 3 | HALT chamber installation | B | C | C |
| 4 | ESS | A | C | C |
| 5 | Shock and vibration | A | C | C |
| 6 | Chamber experience | B | C | C |
| 7 | Hired outside test facilities | A | B | C |
| 8 | Failure analysis | A | A | C |
| 9 | Statistics skills | A | C | C |
| 10 | Reliability ... |
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