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WELCOME The ASQ Reliability Division is the largest group in the world promoting reliability training and education.
This newsletter covers professional development opportunities plus division activities information and news.
The Reliability Calendar Find a wide array of seminars, conferences, classes, webinars and more for your professional development from as many sources around the world as we can find. Visit www.reliabilitycalendar.com ASQ RD LinkedIn Group There is an ASQ RD Group within LinkedIn. Another forum to network, stay in touch and engage in professional discussions with your peers. Click here to link in.
ASQ RD webinars Recorded webinars on topics relevant to reliability engineers delivered by subject matter experts. Visit http://asq.org/reliability/quality-information/webinars-reliability.html
Dear Friends, I would like to thank all of the volunteers that make up the Reliability Division team. We continue to serve our division members, ASQ members, and the global community at large, through our free webinar and short course program. We are always looking for presenters for these events, so if you feel compelled to give back to the Reliability community by sharing your experiences and skills, send me an email with your proposal. As always, we are interested in your ideas and suggestions, and continue to invite you to become a member leader in the division. We are constantly striving to expand the services that we offer, and hope that you will lend your expertise to this effort.
Chair’s Note
Newsletter September 2012 Volume 3, Issue 2
David Auda
Chair, Reliability Division of ASQ
(301) 790-5400 x3128 chair@asqrd.org
Division’s Budget Update Page 2 Webinar Series Page 3 RAMS Best Paper Page 8 Call for Articles Page 10 Division Contacts & Links Page 15
Many upcoming events are detailed in this
edition. Please check them out!
Announcements
Membership update & Division News will appear
in the December Newsletter
Quality Press Some recently published books that may be of interest to division
members with links to free sample chapters:
1. Achieving a Safe and Reliable Product: A Guide to Liability Prevention
http://asq.org/quality-press/display-item/?item=H1431
Sample Chapter: http://asq.org/chapters/H1431.pdf 2. Product Safety Excellence: The Seven Elements Essential
for Product Liability Prevention http://asq.org/quality-press/display-item/index.html?item=H1432&xvl=76106426
Sample chapter: http://asq.org/chapters/H1432.pdf
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As of 31 July our assets total
$150,944. The Annual Reliability
and Maintainability Symposium,
which we are one of nine
sponsoring technical societies,
returned a surplus of $11,700
this year, significantly boosting
our income. Expenses are on
track with our budget.
Update provided by RD Treasurer Alfred Stevens.
Division Budget Update
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Actuals
ACCOUNT DESCRIPTION Budget 7/31/2012
REVENUE $20,000 $14,067
4000 Dues $1,500 $212 4100 Retail Sales $2,000 $0 4200 Advertising $8,000 $17,300 4300 Registrations $800 $713 4870 Investment Income $0 $0 4990 Other $32,300 $32,292
TOTAL REVENUE EXPENSES
5100 Printing & Production $800 $307 5280 Promotional Giveaways $150 $50 5400 Postage & Shipping $500 $690 5500 Contract & Professional $500 $400 5551 Bank Fees $0 $4 5573 Advertising $0 $164 5675 Equipment Rentals $150 $180 5800 Meetings & Banquets $3,000 $3,263 5900 Travel $28,000 $10,314 6000 Supplies $500 $0 6100 Telephone/Webinar $1,800 $500 6200 Partner Payment $3,500 $3,500 6310 Awards & Gifts $200 $1,000 6328 Donations/Scholarships $0 $0 6390 Other $2,600 $87
TOTAL EXPENSES $41,700 $20,458 Surplus (Deficit) ($9,400) $11,834
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Events
English Webinars
Optimum Failure Truncated Testing Strategies By Erik Kostandyan Oct 11th, 0900 US PCT Reliability Calendar (English)
Light Emitting Diode Failure Mechanisms By Dr. Diganta Das Dec 13th, 0900 US PCT Reliability Calendar (English)
Chinese Webinars More coming soon! Please check:
Reliability Calendar (Chinese) Conferences
2012 IEEE/CPMT Workshop on Accelerated Stress Testing & Reliability (ASTR), Oct 17-19, Toronto, Canada http://www.ieee-astr.org
SMRP Annual Conference, Oct 15-18 Orlando, FL http://www.smrp.org
Professional Development Opportunities around the world
Reliability “How to”:
Zero-Failure Test Plans for Substantiation Testing
Suppose that a ball and roller bearing unbalance test follows a Weibull failure
mode, with = 2, and = 500 hours. Suppose this was not adequate life.
The system is redesigned and three redesigned units are available for testing.
Now the question is: How many hours should each system be tested to
demonstrate that this mode of unbalance has been eliminated or significantly
improved?
To answer this question the Table below is used. It is entered with
the value of and the number of units to be tested. The corresponding
table entry is multiplied by the characteristic life to be demonstrated to find
the test time required of each unit. Note that the goal may be to
demonstrate an improvement compared to the existing design, or some
margin may be added, or the goal may be a new design requirement. In the
ball and roller bearing example, the Table is entered with = 2.0 and a
sample size of three. The corresponding table entry is 0.876. The
characteristic life to be demonstrated is 500 hours. The number of hours that
each system should be tested is 0.876 X 500 hours = 438 hours without
failure to substantiate the new system is significantly better.
Table; Substantiation Testing: Characteristic Life Multipliers (k)
For Zero-failure Test Plans, 90% confidence
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International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) on Dependability
Technical Committee (TC 56)
The purpose of TC 56 is to prepare international standards in the field of Dependability for all appropriate technological areas. Dependability is the ability to perform as and when required and is time dependent in application. Dependability can be expressed in terms of core attributes of availability, reliability, maintainability and maintenance support that are tailored to application-specific functional and service attributes. The standards provide systematic methods and tools for the dependability assessment and management of equipment, services and systems throughout their life cycles. The standards cover generic aspects on dependability program management, testing and analytical techniques, software and system dependability, life cycle costing and technical risk assessment . This includes standards related to 1) product issues from component reliability to guidance for engineering dependability of systems, 2) process issues from technical risk assessment to integrated logistics support and 3) management issues from dependability management to managing for obsolescence.
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The application of these standards may identify or be used on safety related issues, but the standards themselves do not cover safety. They may also be applied to business risk analysis but these risk areas are not dealt with by TC 56. TC 56 has the following working groups (WG) which act as maintenance teams for existing standards and support the work on new standards by providing experts who have experience in dependability applications and standard development:
WG1 Definitions – maintains and develop standards on terminology and symbols. WG1 maintains chapter 191 on Dependability definitions in IEC 60050. Definitions are crucial for clear communications, for example in contract situations, and for writing clear and unambiguous standards.
WG2 Methods – maintains and develops standards on test and analysis methods with the associated statistical procedures for these methods (applied statistics). WG2 covers the range from components to complex systems including dependability aspects of software.
WG3 Management – maintains and develop standards for management of Dependability as well as standards on maintainability, maintenance support, technological risk and human aspects.
WG4 Systems - maintains and develops standards on system and network dependability.
The US Technical Chair is Milena Kraisch and the Vice Chair is Frank Straka
Current standard development projects are described below:
ASQ supports the standard efforts. If you are interested in participating in standards development within
the fields of Dependability, please email The ASQ Standards Team, at standards@asq.org.
Project Reference Title StageDocument
Reference
Forecast
Publication Date
IEC 60300-1 Ed. 3.0 Dependability management - Part 1:
Guidance for management and
application
Committee Draft 56/1470/CC 2013-11
IEC 61710 Ed. 2.0 Power law model - Goodness-of-fit
tests and estimation methods
Draft internaltional
Standard
56/1455A/RVC 2012-10
IEC 62198 Ed. 2.0 Managing risk in projects - Application
guidelines
2nd Committee
Draft
56/1474/CD 2015-01
IEC 62506 Ed. 1.0 Methods for product accelerated
testing
Draft internaltional
Standard
56/1427/RVC 2012-10
IEC 62550 Ed. 1.0 Spare Parts Management New work item 2010-10
IEC 62551 Ed. 1.0 Analysis techniques for dependability -
Petri net techniques
Circulating Draft 56/1476/FDIS 2012-10
IEC 62673 Ed. 1.0 Methodology for communication
network dependability assessment and
assurance
Committee Draft
for vote
56/1467/CDV 2013-07
IEC 62740 Ed. 1.0 Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Committee Draft 56/1475/CD 2014-07
IEC 62741 Ed. 1.0 Reliability of systems, equipment and
components. Guide to the
demonstration of dependability
requirements. The dependability case
Committee Draft 56/1477/CD 2014-07
IEC/PAS 62814 Ed. 1.0 Dependability of Software Products
Containing Reusable Components -
Guidance for Functionality and Tests
Committee Draft 56/1479/PAS 2012-12
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Amanda Gillespie, Mark Monaghan, and Yuan Chen, win ASQ Best Paper Award at 2012 RAMS
Congratulations to Amanda Gillespie, Mark Monaghan, and Yuan Chen. Their paper, “Comparison Modeling of System Reliability
for Future NASA Projects,” won the award for the best paper by an ASQ Reliability Division member at the 2012 Reliability and
Maintainability Symposium in January. Gillespie and Monaghan are a Reliability Engineers with SAIC at NASA Kennedy Space
Center in Florida; Chen is a senior member of technical staff with the Electronic Systems Branch, NASA Langley Research Center in
Hampton, Virginia.
The paper presented a methodology combining reliability block diagram analysis, cut set analysis, comparison modeling, and
Fussell-Vesely importance measures to better understand and compare the vulnerabilities of future NASA launch vehicle
architectures under possible application scenarios. This approach allowed the design team to address the deficiencies in the design
architectures more efficiently, while balancing the need to design for optimum weight and space allocations. The paper was
presented at RAMS by Amanda Gillespie.
The award, which will be presented annually, was initiated last year by the RD Executive committee to recognize the contributions of
RD members to RAMS and to encourage more RD members to submit papers to RAMS. The selection committee, appointed by the
executive committee, reviewed all of the papers submitted to RAMS by ASQ-RD members, selected five finalist papers, attended the
presentations of those papers at RAMS, and selected the winner based on both the content and quality of the written text and the
presentation. John Bowles, chair of the selection committee said “We were pleased with the quality of the papers submitted and look
forward to having even more next year.”
The award has two parts: a $500 honorarium distributed to the winners and a plaque to be presented at the ASQ-RD dinner at the
2013 RAMS.
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USA
Region 1 Mohammed
PourgolMohammad
Mohammad.PourgolMohammad@
fmglobal.com
Region 2 David Auda
davideauda@yahoo.com
Region 5 Ronia Char
ronia.s.chaar@census.gov
Aron Brall aron.brall-1@nasa.gov
Region 6 Fred Schenkelberg
fms@garlic.com
Region 10 Guangbin Yang
gyang1@ford.com
Region 11 Jason Overstreet
jason.l.overstreet@gmail.com
Region 12 Dan Burrows
Dan.Burrows@Panduit.com
Jim McLinn jmrel2@aol.com
Region 13 Mitchell Rausch
mitchell.rausch@gmail.com
Region 15 Alfred Stevens
asteve5@bellsouth.net
Regional Councilors
David Auda is spearheading the RD Councilors Program. davidauda@yahoo.com
Reliability Division Webinar Series
Reliability division offers free Webinars in English, Spanish, and Chinese featuring leading international practitioners, academicians, and consultants. Enhance your reliability knowledge. For more information, click here: http://reliabilitycalendar.org/The_Reliability_Calendar/Webinars.html To date we have provided Recertification Units RU’s to over 1575 individuals. The webinar participates are extremely happy with the webinars based upon a follow-up survey that is administered after each webinar. I will be able to use this information to improve my abilities and performance (5 is best) 4.0 I will recommend this course to others (5 is most likely) 4.4 The content of the webinar was logically covered and met my expectations (5 is best) 4.2 The instructor made me feel comfortable learning the material and should be invited back to present other webinars (5 is best) 4.5 The webinar was easy to connect to and the audio and video were acceptable (5 is best) 4.5 Here is what the attendees are saying:
“The case studies were interesting and to the point”
“Provided excellent explanations and background for those without the
baseline knowledge on the subject”
“Simple, straightforward presentation, well-focused on the scope as advertised.” If you would like to suggest a topic or volunteer to present a webinar,
please contact Fred Schenkelberg webinars@asqrd.org
Recordings of previous webinars are available to Reliability Division
members on the ASQ Reliability Division website
www.asq.org/reliability
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Discussion
Resources
Call for Articles
Articles are solicited for inclusion in the ASQ Reliability Division Tech Briefs series, published online. ASQ members are strongly encouraged to submit quality abstracts for potential inclusion. The theme of the next series of Tech Briefs is “Reliability and Systems Engineering: Back to Basics”. Articles should be aimed at a wide audience in the private and government sectors. Articles should be kept to 3-4 pages and present best practices, case studies and/or useful methods that support the theme. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Design for reliability
- Design of experiments for reliability
- Warranty analysis
- Failure Analysis & Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS)
- Data Collection, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems (DCACAS)
- Design Reviews
- Sub/vendor control
- Parts control
- Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis
- Reliability Testing (including TAFT and Qualification testing)
- Reliability Predictions
- Reliability Analysis Techniques including thermal analysis
- Accelerated testing Articles discussing software reliability, reliability prediction for optical and nano components are also highly desired. Abstracts should be limited to 300-400 words and clearly identify the chosen topic and provide insight into the article purpose and scope. The author will be notified 15 days after abstract submission. If an abstract is selected, its author should submit the full article for review in 45 days.
For more information, or to submit an abstract please contact Marc Banghart at techbriefs@asqrd.org.
Reliability Training Material
Slides from Quanterion Solutions Inc
Lunchtime Learning series. Topics
include Reliability distributions, Weibull
analysis, FMEA, DOE.
Slides available at:
http://quanterion.com/Training/Lunchtim
eLearning/index.asp
The ASQ Reliability Discussion Board continues to address member questions and provides a great way to network and discuss a wide range of reliability topics. Visit http://www.asq.org/discussionBoards/forum.jspa?forumID=32 to join the discussion.
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Regional Councilors
International
China: Steven
mingbin.a.chen@INVISTA.com
UK: Sibson Dalgo Edakara
sibsondalgo@gmail.com
India: Anand Keerthi
keerthi.anand@ge.com
Brazil: João Luiz Mapel Junior
jmapeljr@gmail.com
Qatar: Gehadeldin Hamoda
gehadeldin@msn.com
Venezuela: Ernesto Primera
ernesto.primera@gmail.com
Canada - Alberta: Sumit Chatterjee
sumitc2000@gmail.com
Quality Engineering - Call for Papers
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The first award for 2011-2012 has been granted.
Congratulations to Rong Pan and Luis Mejia Sanchez for
their paper entitled, “An Enhanced Parenting Process:
Predicting Reliability in Product’s Design Phase.”
Continuing in 2012-2013, the ASQ Reliability Division will
administer a $1000 annual award for the best Reliability
focused paper published in Quality Engineering. Published
papers will be evaluated for the four issues on the July-June
calendar.
Note – to be eligible for the award, at least one of the
authors for a paper must be a member of the ASQ
Reliability Division when their paper is published.
For more information: Trevor.A.Craney@shell.com
To submit papers for publication:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lqen
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ASQ-RD 2012 Leadership Team
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Chair David Auda (301) 790-5400 x3128 chair@asqrd.org Chair Elect Trevor Craney chairelect@asqrd.org Secretary David Gregerson secretary@asqrd.org Treasurer Alfred Stevens (321) 537-3101 treasurer@asqrd.org Membership Chair Robert Stoddard membership@asqrd.org Program Chair Frank Straka programs@asqrd.org Publications Chair Richard Cass publications@asqrd.org
The ASQ Reliability Division is a major
professional specialty association within
the framework of the American Society for
Quality. Its members have a particular
expertise and interest in reliability and
related disciplines. Division activities
include professional development
opportunities with reliability, maintainability,
quality, safety, and effectiveness of
products, processes and services and with
related topics such as product liability and
risk management.
Division Leadership
Nominating & Past Chair James McLinn (763) 498-8814 jmrel2@aol.com Audit James (Chris) Deepak (281) 871-7128 chris.deepak@haliburton.com CRE Exam Chair Leslie Shattes leslie.shattes@te.com Standards Liaison John Healy johndhealy@verizon.net RAMS Board Liaisons Alfred Stevens asteve5@bellsouth.net Tech Briefs Editor Marc Banghart techbriefs@asqrd.org Newsletter Editor Peter Stuart newsletter@asqrd.org
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Tech Briefs http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=3994573 ASQ Reliability Division http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=1875217
Last Note
Editor’s Note: Please engage the 2012 Leadership Team listed above for any issues you may have.
You may notice the Division transitioning to @asqrd.org email addresses, to ensure you always reach the right person. Please note that the ASQ-RD Newsletter schedule has changed in order to be better aligned with calendar events as follows: March, June, September & December.