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QUALITY AND RELIABILITY
ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
EXECUTIVE BRIEFING
Course Leader:
Pat O'Connor
Introduction
- Project quality, reliability and maintainability
requirements
- Causes and patterns of failure
- Subcontractors' and suppliers' contributions
to quality and reliability
- Achieving intrinsically reliable designs
and products
Reliability Planning and Analysis
- The R&M Plan
- Reliability prediction
- Design analysis: QFD, FMECA, FTA
Technology Impact on Q&R
- Q&R aspects of modern mechanical,
electronic and software engineering
- CAE impact: reliability analysis, simulation,
limits of CAE, training aspects
Testing for Reliability
- Test philosophy: "why test?", "make the
product talk"
- Test economics
- Accelerated test
- Component and subsystem tests, supplier
involvement
- Failure data collection and analysis (FRACAS,
charts)
- Integrated test and data management
Quality in Manufacture
- Design for manufacture
- Process capability
- Quality circles, "Kaizen", SPC, "7 Tools
of Quality"
- Production test
Management
- Responsibilities of management
- Selecting and developing suppliers , contracts
and partnerships
- Integrated engineering: team building,
leadership, training
- Quality and reliability economics
- Project specifications and contracts:
warranties, incentives, life cycle support
- Q&R standards: ISO 9000, IEC300, BS5760,
DEF/MIL STDs
Discussion
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