Course description
This short course aims to introduce data analysis of data from tests or service records and methods of evaluating systems using reliability techniques.
The course draws examples from the aerospace industry, but the methods and tools it employs are equally applicable in any design, maintenance, manufacturing or operations environment.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The course is designed for personnel from all parts of the aviation industry although it will be of particular value to those working for manufacturers, suppliers, operators and aviation authorities who are concerned with the design, reliability, safety or certification of aircraft systems.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand and illustrate the concepts of reliability analysis
- Distinguish between the different methods for analysing the reliability of components and systems
- Use the most appropriate analysis technique when presented with failure data based on component and/or system in-service information
- Outline a quantitative and qualitative analysis of different component and system designs.
Training Course Content
Core content
Analysis of Failure Data
- Negative exponential and Weibull probability distributions
- Tabulation and ranking methods
- Confidence intervals
- Normal, log-normal distributions.
System Reliability Analysis
- Conventional representation
- Series-parallel methods
- Decomposition techniques
- Path and cut sets
- Reliability of maintained systems
- Failure mode effect and criticality analysis
- Event trees
- Markov methods.
Applications
- Reliability prediction during project design and development
- Maintenance and service cost prediction
- Spares and support equipment estimation
- In-service reliability and service policy development.
Course delivery details
Course structure
The course is delivered over 5 days, from Monday to Friday, and is mostly in the form of lectures and tutorials. All delegates will receive a Certificate of Attendance at the end of the course.
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