Track 1 Session 9
8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Thursday June 11, 2009

Tools, Tips and Techniques for Making the Most Positive Impact Throughout Your Organization (Even with a Reliability Department of One)

As reliability engineers, we have the unique opportunity to positively influence and make significant contributions to every area affecting the success of our organizations. Through training and putting systems in place, an effective reliability function can be created even with a reliability presence of only one employee. This presentation covers opportunities, techniques and new ways of applying tools and avoiding pitfalls that will optimize the reliability engineer’s value and effectiveness based on experience/lessons learned. Topics include: training, semi-automated accrual tool for finance, implementation and use of a design/process timeline database, development of incident reports, painless recalls, library tool for quick preliminary design reliability predictions, FMEA as a project management tool, failure database design, minor design change committee, productive customer interfaces, selection of units for Y timeline axis for accurate predictive analysis, improving failure mode granularity in design and failure analysis, techniques to assure safety factors in your product, defining warranty policies, metric selection, supplier selection, and effective interactions internally as well as with field service, suppliers and customers.