International Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS): An international reliability and maintainability conference event

Track 1 Session 11
3:15 to 4:25 p.m. Thursday September 14, 2006

Linking Design FMEA to Reliability Validation Plan

This presentation brings out the linking of Design FMEA to Reliability Validation Plan as part of the Design for Reliability for any new product introduction. The case study is on a product used for automobile application. Some of the important aspects in Design for Reliability are FMEA and Reliability Testing. It is very important to link the Design FMEA to reliability validation. This will aid in understanding the reliability of the product and warranty that we can assure the customer. This also helps in optimizing the test to understand the quantity of samples required, and tests needed to assure the warranty and reliability of the product at minimum cost.

 
Visalakshi Subramaniam, Arun Sundararajan and Jeyaraman Srinivasan
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, India

 
Visalakshi Subramaniam is a Senior Reliability Manager at the Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab in Bangalore, India. Before joining Honeywell, she worked in Indian Space Research Organization as Scientist in Quality Assurance for 10 years, and subsequently as Reliability Engineer in General Electric for 3 years. Visalakshi holds a Master in Manufacturing Management from BITS, Pilani, India and  B.Tech in Electronics & Communication from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India. Visalakshi is ASQ CRE certified and is a senior member of ASQ.