An Introduction to Reliability Engineering

A Study of Why Things Fail and How to Measure and Improve their Useful Life

Created by: Ray Harkins, The Manufacturing Academy
Senior Manufacturing Professional, Online Educator

What Will I Learn?

• What is Reliability and How is it Measured
• Why Things Fail
• The Fundamentals of Strength-Stress Analysis
• The Basics of the Normal and Exponential Distributions
• Z-Score and how it's used in Strength-Stress Analysis
• Introductions to Life Testing, Accelerated Life Testing (ALT), Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)
• The "Bathtub" or Weibull Curve
• Reliability Block Diagrams
• Redundancy, Preventive/Predictive Maintenance, and Derating and Methods for Improving Reliability
• How Reliability Engineering is a key component in the product design and manufacturing processes
• And much more!!

Requirements

• Basic math and Excel skill are helpful
• An understanding of manufacturing is also helpful

Target audience

• Mechanical engineers
• Manufacturing engineers
• Industrial engineers
• Quality engineers
• Quality technicians
• Design engineer
• Reliability engineers