Credits:
Semesters Offered
Learning Objectives
The students will learn:
- The new paradigms for designing robust products
- How to write world class engineering specifications
- How to write manufacturing specifications for defect free production
- How to use risk analysis tools
- Develop a design and manufacturing reliability plans to avoid surprises
- How to verify and validate product reliability
- How to use creativity for design solutions that cost very little or nothing
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How to see potential product failures before the design is approved
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How to see manufacturing defects before any defect is produced
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How to speak up when a design is flawed
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How to completely eliminate failures by design
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How to eliminate manufacturing defects by changing the product design
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How to apply high reliability principles to software design, a major industry weakness
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How to use creativity in developing very low cost solutions
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How to work as an efficient and effective team
Topics Covered
- Principles of a highly reliable design
- Reliability analysis tools such as Requirements Analysis,FMEA, FTA, and PHM
- Principles of software reliability
- Reliability modeling
- Design Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis(DesignFMECA)
- Process FMECA
- Software FMEA
- Six Sigma approach to improve reliability
- Human Factors Engineering for high reliability
- Accelerated life testing principles and practices
- Designing for extreme environments
- Designing for software trustworthiness
- Prognostics design for enhancing system reliability
- Managing for high reliability
- Risk management
- Integrating Reliability with Safety
- Measuring effectiveness of reliability programs
- Case histories of high reliability
Learning Outcomes
- an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability
- an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
- an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
Additional Course Information
Instructor
Raheja, Dev
Textbook
Required Materials:
- Design for Reliability, Authors :Dev Raheja and Louis Gullo (Wiley)
Supplemental Materials:
- Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices, Authors: Dev Raheja and Michael Allocco (Wiley)
- Improving Product Reliability, Authors Mark Levin and Ted Kalal (Wiley)
Class/Laboratory Schedule
- Online class schedule may vary
Last Updated By
Dev Raheja, September 2017