D560

Design for Reliability (DFR) Program Planning and Implementation

Learn DFR for Product Development Processes

D560 provides a Design for Reliability (DFR) planning framework that can be customized to meet your organization’s specific needs. It teaches how to apply each step in the DFR process through hands-on application of tools related to the product development. Students are also exposed to how DFR is applied by the different organization functional team members throughout the product development process.

D560 presents concepts and software that you could use to help your organization:

  • Gain an understanding of the methods, terms and metrics used in reliability, when to apply particular tools during the product development life cycle and the associated benefits and drawbacks of each.
  • Implement a holistic DFR process in product/system design environments and leverage the benefits of this process, namely the Faster, Better, Cheaper values that drive the Reliability 3.0 process.
  • Build an effective reliability culture within the organization and help to determine what needs to be added or improved in your DFR initiatives.
  • Evaluate your strengths in each methodology, which will serve as a guide for any additional skills you may need to acquire or augment.
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Course Outline

Introduction

  • The “Hows” of a world-class DFR process

Duration: 3 days

CEUs: 2.1 CRP Credits: 5

Course Prerequisites

Assumes Basic Knowledge Of

  • Undergraduate Algebra
  • Elementary Calculus
  • Probability and Statistics

Alternative/Similar Course(s)

Next Recommended Course

  • Any course based on interest

Software Used

Computer Required for Course
Plan to install and explore the course software prior to attending.

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Concept Phase Activities

  • Creating a good DFR plan outlining the sequential activities, and their dependencies
  • Understanding and quantifying environmental and usage conditions and setting reliability requirements and goals

Design Phase Activities

  • Risk discovery analysis, change point analysis and design FMEA (DFMEA)
  • Design risk and safety analysis
    • Fault tree analysis (FTA), event trees, risk-based simulations, DOE methods
    • Critical to risk and safety cause mitigation
  • Design reliability analysis
    • Failure mode reliability analysis (FMRA), reliability block diagrams (RBDs), importance metrics, sensitivity analysis, baseline reliability and reliability allocation
    • Critical to reliability cause mitigation
  • Design maintainability and supportability analysis
    • Critical to maintainability and supportability cause mitigation

Development and Testing Phase Activities

  • FRACAS implementation and usage
  • Component testing, accelerated testing, reliability growth
  • Subsystem, system and field testing

Manufacturing Phase Activities

  • Process FMEA (PFMEA)
  • Volume manufacturing and/or supplier control plan

Support Phase

  • Field issues, warranty data analysis and forecasting
  • Reliability based diagnostics and repair guides

Closing the Loop

  • Communicating, updating and maintaining knowledge items