An Introduction to Reliability Engineering
What you'll learn
- What is Reliability and How is it Measured
- Why Things Fail
- The Fundamentals of Strength-Stress Analysis
- The Basics of the Normal and Exponential Distributions
- Z-Score and how it's used in Strength-Stress Analysis
- Introductions to Life Testing, Accelerated Life Testing (ALT), Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT), and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)
- The "Bathtub" or Weibull Curve
- Reliability Block Diagrams
- Redundancy, Preventive/Predictive Maintenance, and Derating and Methods for Improving Reliability
- How Reliability Engineering is a key component in the product design and manufacturing processes
- And much more!!
Description
Reliability is often referred to as "quality over time". And this idea of reliability that was birthed in the early days of electronics and aviation, now extends into every sector of consumer and industrial products. Automobiles, airplane, televisions and computers have all found their way into the hands of everyday consumers because of the advancement in reliability engineering.
In "An Introduction to Reliability Engineering", we present an overview of the major concepts in the field of study including:
- The single reason of why things fail
- Strength / load analysis
- Statistical analysis using the Normal and Exponential distributions
- Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)
- Reliability block diagrams
- Assessing the reliability of systems
- Reliability improvement
- Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)
- Preventive and predictive maintenance
- And MUCH MORE!!!
This class is designed for the quality, manufacturing or engineering professionals looking to expand their skill set into this important field of study. "An Introduction to Reliability Engineering" will give you a foundational understanding of these key ideas and prepare you for more advanced training.
While an advanced understanding of statistics is required to become a reliability engineer, only a basic understanding of manufacturing, mathematics and Microsoft Excel is required to get started in this class.
Sign up today to begin your journey into the field of reliability engineering!!
"This course was absolutely fantastic. The instructor is very engaging and knowledgeable of the topic ... I had such a great time taking this course that I plan on enrolling in more of Ray Harkins's classes. The video included in the "Bonus Section" has pointed me towards many great suggestions for that next class. Thank you very much Ray, and God bless!" - Gary E.
"Lots of important, interesting and fundamental information. Really enjoying it and learning lots." - Matthew O.
Who this course is for:
- Mechanical engineers
- Manufacturing engineers
- Industrial engineers
- Quality engineers
- Quality technicians
- Design engineer
- Reliability engineers
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Course content
- Preview07:18
- 07:24What is Reliability?
- 14:01What do Reliability Engineers do?
- 04:41Why Do Things Fail?
- 05:48Strength
- 04:52Strength Variation
- 1 questionProcess and Product Variables
- 03:10Destructive Testing
- 16:08Analyzing Reliability Test Data
- 02:39Preface to the Normal Distribution
- 08:32The Normal Distribution, Pt 1
- 05:26The Normal Distribution, Pt 2
- 08:40The Normal Distribution, Pt 3
- 1 questionProcess Range
- 04:01Understanding Load
- 08:08Field Research and Load Data
- 05:20Load - Strength Analysis, Pt 1
- 09:46Load - Strength Analysis, Pt 2
- 2 questionsLoad - Strength Analysis
- 13:33The Z Score
- 1 questionZ Score
- 07:27Load - Strength Analysis, Pt 3
- 03:51Changes to Strength Over TIme
- 05:33Life Testing
- 06:20Analyzing Life Data
- 10:27The Exponential Distribution, Pt 1
- 05:37The Exponential Distribution, Pt 2
- Preview12:55
- 06:52Accelerated Life Testing, Pt 2
- 13:22The Weibull Curve
- 07:28Reliability Block Diagrams, Pt 1
- 07:39Reliability Block Diagrams, Pt 2
- 2 questionsReliability Block Diagrams
- 04:14Reliability Improvements
- 12:18HALT and HASS
- 1 questionHASS / HALT
- 10:42Redundancy
- 02:12Derating
- 05:43Preventive and Predictive Maintenance
- 05:10Conclusion
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 6,563 Reviews
- 21,855 Students
- 17 Courses
Ray Harkins is a senior manufacturing professional with over 25 years experience in manufacturing engineering, quality management, and business analysis. During his career, he has toured hundreds of manufacturing facilities and worked with leading industry professionals throughout North America and Japan. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology from the University of Akron, and his Master of Science from Rochester Institute of Technology where he majored in Manufacturing Leadership and Project Management. He is a senior member of the American Society of Quality, and holds their Quality Engineering, Quality Technician, Quality Auditing and Calibration Technician certifications. Ray has written extensively for national trade publications on the topics of quality engineering and career management.