Reliability and Maintainability Symposium: ARS, North America North America

 

Session ID:
Tutorial T2-1

Date and Time:
4:15 to 5:45 pm, Wednesday June 16, 2004

Tutorial
Title

Essential Elements of a Reliability Program

Overview

 

Making a quantifiable impact on the reliability of a product or system should not be accidental. A reliability plan that is an integral part of the product development process is absolutely essential to cost effectively supporting and driving design decisions from product concept through full scale production. This tutorial will reflect the essential steps in developing a tailorable reliability engineering process that focuses on the needs of the original equipment manufacturer and the end user. The presentation will include examples of reliability program benefits and pitfalls as seen from a wide variety of companies and government organizations.

 

Presenter

Pat Hetherington
Reliability Analysis Center (RAC)