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Issue 66, August 2006 |
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Process Variation and Capability Assessment
Competitive companies understand that satisfying customers' needs and
running a successful operation requires a system that is dependable,
predictable and consistent. Many of todays quality management philosophies,
such as Six Sigma, focus on reducing variations and scrap. A modern view of
quality defines it as the inverse of variability. Therefore, measuring
variability and finding ways to reduce it is important for the success of a
company. This article presents a Weibull analysis approach to modeling
production data for a process in order to assess its deviation and
capabilities. This approach augments the Six Sigma-type calculations, which
typically rely on the normality assumption.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue66/hottopics66.htm
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Reliability Basics |
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Reliability Importance Measures of Components in a Complex
System - Identifying the 20% in the 80/20 Rule
When analyzing a systems reliability and availability, measuring the
importance of components is often of significant value in prioritizing
improvement efforts, performing trade-off analysis in system design or
suggesting the most efficient way to operate and maintain a system. Focusing
on the most problematic areas in the system results in the most significant
gains. This article presents different ways for assessing the importance of
non-repairable and repairable components within a system using
BlockSim.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue66/relbasics66.htm
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Available - ReliaSoft's new XFRACAS provides all
of the tools that your organization will need to troubleshoot issues
as they occur in the lab or in the field, capture the data required
for important reliability, quality, safety and other analyses, work
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base" of lessons learned that will be instrumental to future
troubleshooting and development efforts. Learn more about how your
team can take advantage of this incident (failure) reporting,
analysis and corrective action system (FRACA/FRACAS) today at
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UK
Reliability Training Coming Up Soon The September 18
- 22, 2006
MSMT seminar in Manchester is right around the corner. This
particular series provides basic courses for a solid foundation in
the fundamental principles and theory of important reliability
engineering topics. Attending this ReliaSoft training seminar will
help you increase your capabilities and productivity while providing
you with a fresh look at your career in reliability engineering. For
those seriously considering this event, please contact the event
organizer in the UK, RAMsoft Ltd, at:
http://www.RAMsoftUK.com/. Registration is also available online
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ARS 2007
Europe Call for Presentations - The 2007 International
Applied Reliability Symposium, Europe will be held April 11 - 13,
2007 in Frankfurt, Germany. You are invited to
submit presentation proposals that address the Symposium theme:
"Sharing applications, success stories and lessons learned in
reliability and maintainability engineering."
- Warranty reduction
- Reliability as an investment,
not a cost
- Specifying reliability and
reliability metrics
- Supplier management
- Data collection, management and
analysis
- Reliability and safety
- Reliability and market share
- Reliability testing
- Software reliability
- Manufacturing reliability
Presentations will be accepted
on the basis of the proposal. Because of the applied nature of the
Symposium, presenters are asked to submit materials in presentation
format only (i.e. PowerPoint). All proposals and
presentations must be in English. An accompanying paper is not
required. 50 minutes have been allocated to each presentation with
10 minutes of questions for a total of 60 minutes per session. The
deadline for proposal submission is
November 10, 2006.
Presenters receive complimentary registration for the event.
For more information, please visit
the ARS Web site at
http://www.ARSymposium.org/europe/presenters/index.htm or e-mail
InfoEurope@ARSymposium.org.
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ARS Global
Updates
- 2006 ARS Asia Pacific DONT
MISS IT!!!
- To be held in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia on September 13 - 14, 2006.
- 2006 Event Sponsor, General
Electric, will be hosting a 2-day Reliability Awareness Workshop
prior to the event on September 11-12. Fact sheets and
registration can be obtained at:
http://www.ARSymposium.com/asia/index.htm.
- 2007 ARS North America
- To be held in San Diego, CA
on June 22 - 27, 2007.
- Call for Presentations!
Presenters receive complimentary registration for the event. The
deadline for proposal submissions is December 8, 2006. Complete
details are available at:
http://www.ARSymposium.org/present.htm.
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Public
Training Event Calendar |
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September
2006 |
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September 13 - 14, 2006:
International Applied Reliability Symposium in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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September 18 - 20, 2006:
RS 522 Advanced System Analysis in
Tucson, Arizona |
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September 18 - 22, 2006:
MSMT Foundations in
Manchester, UK |
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September 21 - 22, 2006:
RS 470 FMEA/FMECA in
Tucson, Arizona |
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October 2006 |
| October
9 - 10, 2006:
RS 401(C) Life Data Analysis (Condensed) in
Bangalore, India |
| October
18 - 20, 2006:
RS 525 Probabilistic Event Analysis in
Tucson, Arizona |
| October
23 - 27, 2006:
MSMT Foundations in
Frankfurt, Germany |
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November
2006 |
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November 6 - 10, 2006:
RS 540 Advanced Reliablity Analysis for Repairable
Systems in
Melbourne, Australia |
| November 13 - 17,
2006:
MSMT Foundations in
Tucson, Arizona |
| November 13 - 17,
2006:
MSMT Foundations in
Melbourne, Australia |
| November
27 - December 1, 2006:
RS 540 Advanced Reliablity Analysis for Repairable
Systems in
Singapore |
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