Session Details

2008 ARS, India
Tutorial 1

Developing a Reliability Centered Culture

At the very core of the welfare of society lies the creation of a secure and effective environment for living, working and cultural interactions. Yet both the built and natural components of this environment contain risk. Although decisions regarding acceptable risk levels belong to society-at-large, analysis of risk related to human-made infrastructure has typically been the domain of Engineering. Reliability Engineering leaders have failed to identify and invest in the full range of the projects/activities required to support the strategies required to give their organizations the full benefit of a risk analysis environment (or "Reliability Centered Culture") of the organization.

In this tutorial, we will cover the critical imperatives that will enable organizations to develop the right strategies and take them to completion. We will cover elements of the strategies development such as: ideation, nature, vision, engagement, synthesis and transition as applied to the development of the reliability program.

Julio Pulido
Ingersoll Rand
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dr. Julio Pulido is the Director of Global Reliability and Test Engineering for Ingersoll-Rand Climate Control. He is responsible for P&L activities at IR – CC (Thermo King, Hussman, Crack and Koxka) engineering laboratories around the Globe. The test capabilities are oriented to R & D Activities, Development Testing, and Product Reliability validation. Dr. Pulido is also responsible for implementing the Reliability Engineering program at IR – Climate Control and ensuring regulatory and compliance requirements for Climate Control products.

Dr. Pulido is member of the American Society of Quality, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Refrigeration Institute and American Society of Civil Engineers serving in several technical committees. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Miami University School of Engineering and Applied Science Advisory Council.

Dr. Pulido received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Federal University of Bahia, Brazil in 1981, Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Vibration) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 1984, PhD in Civil Engineering (Structures) from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1990. He also completed Research Studies at Duke University in the Area of Structural Reliability Engineering with publications in major Technical journals in 1991. Dr. Pulido also holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH in 1997. He completed the Advance Strategic Management Information Technology program at Chicago Graduate Business School in 2003. Dr. Pulido holds Professional Engineering licenses in several countries.

Dr. Pulido had been a speaker in several Engineering Symposiums in the areas of Product Reliability, Structural Testing, Numerical Analysis applications in Engineering, Risk Analysis and Component life prediction.