Reliability Prediction and Testing Textbook

6 Exemplary Models of Programs and Illustrations for Professional Learning in Reliability Prediction and Accelerated Reliability Testing

Lev M. Klyatis

For use in engineering education and training courses, seminars, lectures, tutorials, workshops, and so on.

6.1 Examples of the Program

6.1.1 Example 1. Several Days' Course: “Successful Prediction of Product Reliability and Necessary Testing”

Will provide the foundation for designing and using this problem solution.

Course participants will learn:

First and second days: “Methodological Aspects of Reliability Prediction”

• Reliability understanding and measuring
• Impact of reliability on profits.
• How reliability influence on life‐cycle cost.
• Reduction in life‐cycle time and cost.
• Design FMEA.
• Misapplications of FMEA.
• Fault tree analysis (FTA).
• Conducting design reviews.
• Reliability as one from interacted component of product performance.
• Analysis of current situation with reliability of the products and the basic causes of this situation.
• Why reliability prediction is often inaccurate
• Analysis of current situation with using different methodological approaches of reliability prediction—their positive and negative aspects.
• Terms and definitions of reliability prediction.
• New advanced methodological approach for successful reliability prediction.
• The strategy of successful prediction for industry.
• Preparation of recommendations for design improvement.
• Growth of reliability through ART.
• Controlling warranty costs.
• Implementation ...