1 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 [email protected]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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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.
Want to upgrade your membership? Get your leadership and professional achievements recognized by ASQ. Be a senior member and get rewarded with enhanced benefit selections. Learn more here.
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
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 [email protected].
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 -
David Auda is spearheading the RD Councilors Program. [email protected]
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,
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 [email protected].
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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Mechanical Design Reliability - by James A. McLinn, CRE & Fellow, ASQ Mechanical design reliability has been a sparsely covered topic. This monograph is instructive to practical engineers desiring to understand and test materials and mechanical systems. It first addresses the concepts of stress, strain, tension, shear and material fatigue. The elastic limits and plastic deformation is modeled as well as creep situations. Accelerated life, Miner’s rule and non-normal material strength and variable load distributions are modeled and illustrated in the 80 pages. Available at $25.00 each, plus postage. Practical Weibull Analysis - 5th edition by James A. McLinn, CRE & Fellow, ASQ This monograph presents practical discussion and examples of essential Weibull topics. Most textbooks on this subject require extensive statistical background. This book was designed to be direct and to the point. In 75 pages it leads the reader quickly through the principles of Weibull. The useful examples and Weibull graphs illustrate applications such as confidence calculations, non-straight lines, optimum replacement costs, maintainability, and analysis of accelerated life tests and multiple stress tests. Just $30.00 each, plus postage. Credible Reliability Prediction - by Laurence George, Ph.D., ASQ Fellow This monograph extends MTBF prediction to predict the age-specific reliability of redundant, stand-by, complex, and life-limited systems. The method uses field reliability data and proportional hazards models. Data are from older, comparable products, because product generations have similar reliability functions despite changes. Price is $25.00 each, plus postage. Electronic version available. Practical Accelerated Life Testing - by James A McLinn, CRE & Fellow ASQ A 125 page book that simply and uniquely delineates the key steps and guidelines for setting-up and administrating accelerated life tests. In eight sections it covers a brief history of accelerated methods, applications of the techniques, guidelines for test selecting test environments, common test methods, practical guidelines for test set-up, key parameters to monitor, sample size decisions, models for analysis and examples of analysis of difficult results. Important guidelines and pitfalls to avoid are given. Examples include multiple level tests and step-stress tests. Just $30.00 each, plus postage.
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Develop Reliable Software at Low Life Cycle Cost: With Upgraded Software Reliability Engineering - by Norman F. Schneidewind, Ph.D. and related articles by Samuel J.Keene, Ph.D. The contents of this monograph present for software engineers, reliability engineers and software quality specialists, and managers practical tools and methods which the authors have perfected and applied in a broad range of enterprises. They include strategy and tactics for improvement of the software engineering process, software reliability models, development of trustworthy code, and reliability assessment throughout the product life cycle. Price is $25.00 each, plus postage. Design For Reliability - by Xijin (Bill) Tian, Ph.D., with added chapters by Drs. L.L. George, S.J. Keene, plus T. Craney and J. McLinn This new monograph contains the entire series of articles written by Dr. Tian plus much more! The authors clearly describe practical methods they employ in effectively ensuring that high reliability goals are achieved. They integrate reliability improvement practices and methods congruent with project design rules. The additional chapters present relevant material by Drs. Larry George and Sam Keene, plus input from Trevor Craney, and James McLinn. The contents offer a practical Benchmark of resource for reliability and maintainability engineers. Price is $30.00 each, plus postage. Homeland Security And Reliability Airport Model - by Norman F. Schneidewind, IEEE Congressional Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Professor Emeritus: Information Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School Dr. Schneidewind’s model presented in this monograph addresses the airport security problem. It facilitated his specific recommendations to the U.S. Congress for legislative or management action to close the security loopholes. Model quantitative results are used to delineate the implications for changes in security policy at the nation’s airports. The work presents solutions which may be extended to many other security settings. Price is $20.00 each, plus postage.
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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.
