Reliability Engineering Explained Seminars - Two Free One-Day Events

Event Details

Seminar Dates

Wilde in association with Reliability Solutions, the Virtual Engineering Centre (University of Liverpool) and AMAP (University of Sunderland) are hosting two free one-day seminars entitled Reliability Engineering Explained on:

• 21 September 09:30 – 15:30 – Virtual Engineering Centre, Daresbury, Cheshire
• 23 September 09:30 – 15:30 – AMAP, Sunderland.

Overview

Product development today is an expensive, complex and technically challenging process. This process typically starts from initial concept through design, testing, manufacturing to ‘in-field’ monitoring during the operating life. Some products may also have a decommissioning phase which requires special attention.

Product development is about managing risk – where engineering and commercial trade-offs need to be identified and understood and the critical product issues mitigated or ‘designed-out’.

Customers are becoming more sophisticated in their requirements and have high expectations of what constitutes ‘fitness-for-purpose’ in the products they buy or use. Products recalls are now regularly reported in the media, in addition to product failures that result in environmental damage or safety issues.

Product defects and the potential liability issues linked to both the designer and company mean that it is no longer viable to rely on traditional methods without considering reliability implications. What is required is a systematic, cost effective, concurrent engineering process where reliability engineering tools and methods are woven into the complete product development cycle.

Why Should You Attend?

These one-day seminars will give you an overview of how reliability tools and methods can be used within your product development processes. The seminar will address the risk based approach to developing reliable products, providing an overview of the concepts and demonstrating the benefits through practical case studies.

Wilde Analysis retains an experienced team of reliability engineers in-house, led by Mike McCarthy. We also work with a number of specialists who operate as associates on a project-by-project basis. We are pleased to invite Martin Shaw of Reliability Solutions as a contributor to our 2010 seminars. Collectively, Mike and Martin have over 40 years of combined experience in reliability engineering.

Wilde is the UK and Ireland Value Added Reseller for the ReliaSoft range of reliability engineering Modelling and Analysis tools.

What You Will Learn

Using real case studies, we will show how practitioners and decision makers throughout the organisation can use reliability engineering to reduce product development risk and manage the product through its operational life.

Who Should Attend?

This seminar series is aimed at all designers, engineers and managers interested in improving the reliability performance and procedures within their organisation.

Agenda

The seminars will start with registration at 9.30 and finish at approximately 15.30.

• What is Reliability Engineering?
  • What does reliability mean for engineers / practitioners?
  • What does reliability mean for managers?
  • How does reliability fit into the product development process?
  • What are industry best practice and standards?
• What are the very best / most successful companies doing?
• The tools of reliability engineering (brief snapshots)
  • FRACAS, RCA, FMECA, DoE, Accelerated Testing, Life Data Analysis, Reliability Block Diagrams, Fault Trees, Reliability Growth Analysis…
• Accelerated Testing Case Study
• Putting it all together – building a reliability programme

Lunch and refreshments are provided, allowing for networking opportunities. You will also be able to discuss your individual reliability issues with our specialist engineers.

The Presenters

Mike McCarthy: Principal Engineer, Wilde Analysis Ltd

Qualifications: BSc MSc MSaRS MCMI

Mike has been working with Wilde since 2005 and has 18 years experience in the reliability engineering arena.

He holds a Physics degree, a masters degree in Industrial Engineering and is a Member of the Safety and Reliability Society and also the Chartered Management Institute.

Mike is involved with understanding why products and systems fail, predicting how many will fail in the hands of customers’ and identifying corrective actions that either fix the problem or mitigate the risk to the client and customer.

Mike is an experienced reliability practitioner involved in reliability consulting and training across oil and gas, pharmaceutical, consumer and industrial product manufacturing industries.

For more details about Mike McCarthy, click here

Martin Shaw: Managing Director, Reliability Solutions

Qualifications: BSc Hons

Martin Shaw is the Managing Director of Reliability Solutions, which was formed in 1997 to provide the complete range of reliability improvement tools and application solutions throughout the product cycle.

Martin previously worked at IBM as their Quality and Reliability Specialist within the PC Business Unit. From 1982-1997 Martin worked as a specialist in Product and Commodity Quality / Reliability optimisation for the Electronic Product Suppliers to IBM. During this time he worked extensively with a wide range of suppliers throughout Asia, USA and Europe.

Since 1997 Martin has worked with a diverse range of blue-chip companies worldwide to improve their product reliability.

For more details about Reliability Solutions, click here.

Venues

21 September – The Virtual Engineering Centre, University of Liverpool

The Virtual Engineering Centre has been established to assist the North West aerospace sector and wider industry by providing a focal point for world class virtual engineering technology, research, education and best practice with the aim of improving business performance throughout the supply chain.

The Virtual Engineering Centre is a University of Liverpool project partially funded by NWDA and ERDF located at the Daresbury Laboratory of the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

For more details about the Virtual Engineering Centre, click here.

The event is being held in the Atrium, at the address below;

Virtual Engineering Centre
STFC – Daresbury Laboratory
Atrium
Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus
Warrington
WA4 4AD
Cheshire

For directions to the Virtual Engineering Centre, click here.

23 September – AMAP, University of Sunderland

AMAP (Institute for Automotive & Manufacturing Advanced Practice) is part of the Faculty of Applied Sciences within the University of Sunderland. It delivers a wide range of business support/technology transfer projects and is as a leading group in international research in digital engineering technologies, design and innovation, manufacturing and maintenance engineering and ultra low carbon vehicle technology.

This event is being delivered in conjunction with the Digital Factory project within AMAP, which is a £6m project funded by One NorthEast and the European Regional Development Fund.

The project has delivered over 5800 CPD learning opportunities to date and has a comprehensive networked model which supports technological change and the development of innovative capability within the region, specifically addressing Skills, Investment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

For more details about AMAP, click here.

The seminar is being held in the Doxford Suite A, at the address below;

Institute for Automotive & Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP)
University of Sunderland
Doxford Suite A
The Industry Centre
Colima Avenue
Sunderland Enterprise Park West
Sunderland
Tyne & Wear
SR5 3XB

For directions to AMAP, click here.

How to Register

Please call Jane Jones on +44 (0) 161 474 7479 or email jjones@WildeAnalysis.co.uk to reserve your places.