Introduction to Reliability Engineering

Taught by Marc Banghart

Days :Tuesday, July 28, 2015, 8:00am – 5:00 pm

This introductory course will cover foundational topics required to develop highly reliable products and services. The course will cover reliability, maintainability and availability topics in order to not only meet design requirements but also reduce overall life-cycle cost and achieve a sustainable product. The material will be approached from a system perspective with a strong focus on practical methods and tools.

This 8-hour course will:

• Provide detailed knowledge of various reliability analysis techniques
• Utilize appropriate metrics and criteria to evaluate system reliability, maintainability and availability
• Provide engineers the tools to successfully implement reliability engineering in their organization

Topics will include:

• Data Collection, Analysis and Modeling to include Failure Scoring and Reporting
• Reliability and Maintainability Analysis and Optimization to include parameter estimation, data fitting and trend analysis
• Modeling and Simulation to include Reliability Block Diagrams and Fault Tree Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis
• Design for Reliability best practices
• Case Studies

Students will receive a CD of all material used (.pdf’s, .xls,.doc) and a certificate for 0.8 RU’s after successful completion.

Student must bring: Attendees are expected to bring their own laptop computers. While the course will concentrate on the content-not any particular software, a software package is necessary to facilitate learning of the material. Minitab will be used. If attendees do not have Minitab installed on their computer, a 30-day free trial can be downloaded from www.minitab.com; but please make note not to download and install the software more than 30 days prior to the course.

Biography of Speaker

Marc Banghart is a reliability engineer with Wyle Incorporated supporting several United States Air Force (USAF) contracts. His area of focus is failure analysis, modeling and simulation as well as sustainment engineering. Marc started his career in the United States Air Force working on F-15 aircraft. After leaving the Air Force, Marc held several positions supporting functional areas of Systems Engineering to include reliability, integration and test and evaluation. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (Troy State University) and a Master of Science degree in Systems Engineering (Southern Methodist University) and Computer Engineering (Stevens Institute of Technology). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering, with a focus on reliability from Mississippi State University. Marc is an active participant in several professional organizations including ASQ and IEEE.