Duration
3 days
Level
Practitioner
Access
Public enrolment · Private / corporate
Delivery
Face-to-face
Sessions and enrolment
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Price
Price not published. Check with the provider.
Presented by
Dr Kevin Howard

About this course

A three-day course on practical reliability analysis and modelling. It covers relationships between reliability, availability and maintainability, reliability models and prediction, FMEA and FMECA, common-cause analysis, reliability block diagrams and fault tree analysis, software reliability, RAMS, the use of MBSE to support reliability analysis, human factors, health and usage monitoring and built-in test, and providing evidence of reliability. Daily workshops apply the methods.

Presented by

Who should attend

  • Engineers
  • Quality assurance and RAM managers
  • Reliability engineers

Learning outcomes

  • Analyse, model and predict system reliability.
  • Understand common reliability terminology and models.
  • Practise functional FMECA, including for electro-mechanical systems.
  • Analyse, predict and monitor system reliability.

Course outline

  1. 01

    Reliability concepts, models and mission analysisDay 1

    FMEA and FMECA · Common mode and common cause analysis · Safety and security implications

  2. 02

    Reliability analysisDay 2

    Reliability block diagrams · Fault tree analysis · Software reliability · RAMS · MBSE support for reliability analysis

  3. 03

    Assuring reliabilityDay 3

    Human factors · HUMS and built-in test · Providing evidence of system reliability

Training areas