The Reliability Engineer (RE) is the business adviser to facility maintenance and production. In this role, the RE mitigates the risks associated with managing assets by encouraging interdepartmental partnerships focused on the goal of reliable production. This strategic position is responsible for evaluating and predicting performance to achieve the greatest asset utilization at the lowest total cost of ownership.

Course Schedule

No courses currently scheduled. If you are interested in information on availability, contact IIE Director of Continuing Education and Program Development Larry Aft, P.E., (770) 349-1130.

Overview:

The Reliability Engineer sees all aspects of proper plant function, puts equipment first, and makes decisions based on how machines function and their impact on production. Just as a business adviser must balance policy and diplomacy, the RE must be dedicated to preserving asset reliability and managing risk. In this five-day course, you will learn what it means to be a Reliability Engineer, how to build and sustain a strategic Reliability Engineering program, and how to gain support from other departments to achieve your facility’s reliability goals.

Topic Highlights:

What You Will Learn:

• Examine the Reliability Engineer role
• Define the essential components of a successful reliability program
• Investigate reliability tools and problem-solving methods
• Practice different problem-solving techniques
• Employ reliability economics, statistics and probabilities for decision making
• Use different reliability models to analyze data for reliability
• Discuss ways to optimize your reliability program
• Cite elements of designing for reliability
• Discuss PM optimization
• Discuss 5 PdM technologies and their application

Course Content

• Introductions and Objectives
• Reliability Excellence
• RE and Interdepartmental Partnerships
• Risk-based Asset Management Strategy Introduction
• Origins of Reliability Engineering
• Reliability Terms
• RE Roles and Responsibilities
• Fundamentals of Risk Management
• Design Principals
• Purchase, Installation and Maintenance Condsiderations
• Reliability Modeling for Decision Making
• Reliability Program:
  • Life Cycle Asset Management - Reliability Components
  • Management of Change Process: from Identify to Audit Mitigation Actions
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Introduction
    • Information Gathering
    • Failure Modes, FMEA, RCM Logic Tree
    • Three-step RCM Process
    • Action Plans
  • Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM)
    • Five Elements of TPM
    • 12 Steps for a TPM Program
  • Reliability Metrics (MTBF, MTTR, Availability, etc.)
• RE Economics
  • Why Economics?
  • Case Flow, Time Valuke of Money, Net Present Value, etc.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • ROI, Payback, Benefit-cost Ratio, Discounted Benefit-cost Ratio
  • Net Return, Discounted Net Return, Total Cost of Reliability, Optimum Reliability Cost
• Statistics
  • Uses of Statistics
  • Pareto Analysis
  • Basic Statistical Concepts
    • Normal, Exponential, Weibull
• Applying Statistics in Real-life Scenarios
• Root Cause Analysis Exercies
• Failure Reporting and Criticality Analysis System
• PM Optimization Exercise
• PdM Technologies
• PdM Technologies Scenario Exercise
• Parking Lot Discussions
• Action Plan Report-out
• Review and Celebration

Corporate Training

This course is available as a corporate training program and can be customized to meet your company’s needs. For more information, contact IIE Director of Continuing Education and Program Development Larry Aft, P.E., (770) 349-1130.

Class cancellation:  IIE reserves the right to cancel a class up to 15 business days prior to the scheduled start date.