INTRODUCTION TO RELIABILITY TESTING AND ANALYSIS




Training materials:  Introduction to Reliability student participant guide

Course agenda:
 
            I.        BASIC STATISTICAL CONCEPTS 
                         - Confidence intervals 
                         - Hypothesis testing 

           II.        GRAPHICAL TOOLS 
                         - Dot plot, histogram, box plot 
                         - End count test 

          III.        RELIABILITY CONCEPTS 
                         - Reliability function 
                         - Hazard function 
                         - Bathtub curve 
                         - Censoring 

           IV.        COMMON RELIABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS 
                         - Exponential 
                         - Weibull 
                         - Normal 
                         - Lognormal 

            V.        NONPARAMETRIC RELIABILITY 
                         - Kaplan-Meier Estimates 
                         - Comparing survival curves 

           VI.        PROBABILITY PLOTTING 
                         - Probability paper 
                         - Distribution identification

          VII.        ESTIMATION 
                         - Least squares estimation 
                         - Maximum likelihood estimation 
                         - Estimating percentile failure times 
                         - Estimating probability of failure 

         VIII.        SYSTEM FAILURE 
                         - Series systems 
                         - Parallel systems 
                         - R out of N systems 
                         - Competing risk model 
                         - Dealing with multiple failure modes 

            IX.        PLANNING RELIABILITY TESTS 
                         - Sample size calculations via simulation 
                         - Sample size calculations using large sample approximations 
                         - Zero failure testing 

            X.        ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING (time permitting) 
                         - Linear acceleration 
                         - Testing for equal linear acceleration 
                         - Arrhenius acceleration