Life Testing and Reliability Analysis

Course Description:
Life Testing and Reliability Analysis is specifically designed to meet the analytical
needs of those individuals working within FDA regulated industries. Areas of focus
include: distribution analysis, area under the curve estimation, hypothesis testing,
life and survival estimation, thermal sensitivity, confidence intervals and multiple
factor modeling. Presentation of the course material is designed for 8 hours of
instruction.

Attendees:
Life Testing and Reliability Analysis is required for all scientists, engineers and
quality professionals who actively work on all aspects of discovery, product and
process development where the goal is to characterize, optimize and improve
product and process performance.

  

Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course the participants will be able to:

  1. Determine product reliability performance.
  2. Understand and apply non-parametric reliability analysis.
  3. Understand and apply parametric reliability analysis.
  4. Perform multivariate reliability assessment.
  5. Understand and apply recurrence analysis.
  6. Use Arrhenius transformations in reliability modeling.
  7. Select appropriate sample sizes for MTBF studies.
  8. Model reliability improvement using reliability growth models.

Prerequisites: Engineering Statistics and Data Analysis is a recommended
prerequisite for this course.

Detailed Course Outline:

Introduction to reliability analysis and basic
statistics                                                 
                                                
Nonparametric reliability analysis (Kaplan-Meier)
                         
Parametric reliability analysis (LogNormal, Exponential, Weibull)
                                                     
Competing Causes
                                                           
Lifetime distribution analysis  
                                              
Fit Life by X

Multivariate reliability analysis (Parametric Survival)
                         
Recurrence analysis
                                                     
MTBF analysis
                                                           
Reliability growth analysis