Short course/CPD
Practical Reliability
Course date: 05 Nov 2012 - 09 Nov 2012
Course overview
The aim is to introduce technical staff to the analysis of data from tests or service records and methods of evaluating systems using, in both cases, examples from real life. 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.
Enough theory will be presented to support the practice but the emphasis will be on methods and on appraising the results of the analysis. Most of the analysis will be done by hand to give a proper insight into the techniques. Guidance will be provided on the use of computer programs for plotting data and the creation of probability distributions. This short course is part of the MSc in Airworthiness,
Location
Cranfield University is located at the very heart of the UK – within the innovation triangle between London and the cities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Our central location provides easy access from the M1, excellent main line rail service as well as proximity to key international airports. Set in rolling countryside, Cranfield offers a rich, rural landscape complemented by thriving towns and picturesque villages.
- Road: We are just 10 minutes from Junctions 13 & 14 of the M1 motorway. There is free parking on campus.
- Rail: Milton Keynes or Bedford
- Air: London Luton (22 miles), Heathrow (50 miles) or Birmingham (70 miles).
Course fee:
£1385
Accommodation fee:
£445
Accommodation is on a full-board basis from the evening before the course commences until the afternoon of the last day. The course fee includes a course dinner for all participants and refreshments and lunch during the day. The accommodation fee includes all other meals. Details of arrangements will be in the delegate information pack.
How to register
Further information
For more information on this course or booking details please contact:
Academic Operations Unit
T: + 44 (0) 1234 754192
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
Course description
On completion of the course, delegates 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.
Who should attend
Participants will be engineers or scientists with a basic knowledge of probability and statistics. They will be concerned with system design or maintenance and the course will be particularly suitable for new reliability specialists.
Content summary
Introduction
Outline of the various means of performing the reliability analysis of components and systems.
Regulatory background
Requirements for safety and reliability analysis as part of Regulatory Approval process
Analysis of failure data
- Negative exponential and Weibull probability distributions
- Tabulation and ranking methods
- Confidence intervals
- Mormal, log-normal distributions.
Systems
- 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
- In-service modification evaluation.
Course Directors
Dr Simon PlaceSenior Lecturer
Department of Air Transport
School of Engineering
T: +44 (0) 1234 754235
E: c.s.place@cranfield.ac.uk
John Snow
Visiting Lecturer
Department of Air Transport
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