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Reliability, Maintainability, Availability (RMA)
Course No. REL-07

This three-day course provides program managers, systems designers, and logisticians with a practical knowledge of the elements of a successful reliability program and how to specify, plan, and manage them. Participants will become familiar with the key elements of a successful reliability program, methodologies for accomplishing these elements, how to develop a plan and manage the program, and what challenges exist and how to overcome them. This course is designed to provide engineers and managers with a solid understanding of reliability, maintainability, and availability concepts, and their application to development programs. Real world examples are used throughout the workshop to illustrate key learning points and practical exercises are accomplished by workshop participants to reinforce workshop objectives.

On modern complex systems and equipment programs, the need exists to meet challenging system operational availability and affordability requirements. Reliability analysis provides the theoretical and practical tools to specify, predict, design in, test, and demonstrate the probability of items (from individual parts up to entire systems) to perform without failure for desired time periods in specified environments. Reliability analysis also enables the monitoring and feedback of performance of item(s) to all concerned organizations and allows implementation of any needed corrective action(s).

Topics - Day One
  1. Workshop Introduction
  2. Course Objectives and Approach
  3. Overview of Reliability, Maintainability, Availability (RMA) Analysis
  4. Reliability, Maintainability, Availability
  5. Definitions
  6. Concepts
  7. The Role of RMA in the Overall Systems Analysis Process
  8. The Role of Reliability Analysis in Equipment Design
  9. RMA Standards and Handbooks (Data Sources)
  10. Reliability Resources
  11. Key Elements of a Successful Reliability Program
  12. Planning
  13. Modeling
  14. Allocation
  15. Prediction and Analysis
  16. Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  17. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
  18. Testing and Reliability Growth Management
  19. Failure Rreporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
  20. Reliability Development and Production Testing
Topics - Day Two
  1. Defining Reliability Program Requirements and Developing a Plan
  2. Establishing Program Objectives
  3. Identifying Reliability Program Tasks
  4. Setting a Schedule
  5. Documenting the Plan
  6. Managing the Program
  7. Program/Design Reviews
  8. Document Submittals
  9. Tracking Progress
  10. Making Adjustments and Updating the Plan
Topics - Day Three
  1. Establishing Reliability Requirements for Systems and Equipment
  2. Setting Specification Values
  3. Allocation of Reliability Requirements
  4. Relationship of Reliability to Life Cycle Cost (LCC) and Human Systems Integration (HSI)
  5. Challenges to Planning and Managing a Modern Reliability Program
  6. How to Overcome the Challenges
  7. Document Submittals
  8. Case Studies in Reliability Program Management
  9. Wrap Up/Discussion/Critiques

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Payments:

Payment is due five calendar days prior to workshop. Master Card, Visa, American Express, Discover, company checks, and US Government Purchase Orders will be accepted. For your security, credit card payments will only be accepted by phone. Please make checks payable to Acquisition Logistics Engineering.

Cancellations:

If unable to attend the workshop, please notify ALE at your earliest convenience. A full refund of registration cost will be given up to five days prior to the workshop. 50% of the registration cost will be refunded up to the day before the workshop. If you do not cancel your registration, you will be charged if you fail to show. If a registered participant is unable to attend a workshop, a substitute is welcome to take their place. ALE reserves the right to cancel a course due to minimal enrollment or circumstances beyond our control. Every effort will be made to reschedule a cancelled workshop or transfer enrollments to a later date.

Location:

All classes will be held in our training facilities in Worthington, Ohio and Gautier, MS. To bring our workshops to your facility, please contact us. Registrations will be accepted until classes are filled, so register early. All training materials and lunch for each day will be included.

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