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Interaction Between the House
of Quality (within Design for Six Sigma) and the FMEA (within
Design for Reliability)
The terms quality and reliability are often used
interchangeably, but while they are strongly connected, they are
not the same. While reliability is concerned with the
performance of a product over its entire lifetime, quality is
concerned with the performance of a product at one point in
time, usually at the end of the manufacturing phase, to assure
conformance to specifications. Reliability assures that
components, equipment and systems function without failure for
desired periods during their whole design life. One can say that
reliability can be perceived as the continuation of quality over
time. However, the underlying goal of quality and reliability
systems is the same: to achieve customer satisfaction.
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) has been widely employed as the
framework to ensure that an organizations quality objectives are
met and Design for Reliability (DFR) is becoming increasingly
accepted as the best practice approach for ensuring reliability
within the design. The two processes are complementary and there
are many correlations between the tools employed by each. In
this article, we present a brief summary of a comprehensive
Design for Reliability process and we explore the relationship
between two tools that are employed in the early product
definition stage: the House of Quality (HoQ), which is part of
the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) techniques used in Design
for Six Sigma and the FMEA, which is part of the Design for
Reliability process.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue93/hottopics93.htm
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Reliability Basics |
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Using OC Curves in Design of Reliability
Tests
Operating Characteristic (OC) curves are powerful tools in the
field of quality control, as they display the discriminatory
power of a sampling plan. In this article, we explain the
applications of OC curves in reliability engineering.
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue93/relbasics93.htm
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Tool Tips |
- What tools are available
in
Xfmea/RCM++ to help monitor the progress for
completing an analysis?
- How can I use DOE++'s
Modify Design window?
To read more, see
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue93/tooltips93.htm
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Latest Software Updates |
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A new service release is now
available for RGA (SR
6.5.5). To determine the compile revision of the application on
your computer, select About from the Help menu.
More Software Downloads...
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RGA 6 |
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Hot News |
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2009 Seminar Calendar Updated - ReliaSoft's
Worldwide Seminar Calendar is now online and
available for review! Over 55 public seminars around the
world have been scheduled for 2009. Explore our
easy-to-use, Web-based Seminar Calendar to quickly
locate an event near you. Budgeting for next year just
got easier:
http://www.ReliaSoft.com/seminars/dates.htm. |
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New UK Partner - ReliaSoft Corporation is
proud to announce a new partnership with Wilde FEA
Ltd. The experience this organization brings to the
partnership includes over 20 years of Finite Element
Analysis (FEA) knowledge, reliability engineering
experience and proven service with more than 500
international clients. Wilde FEA Ltd is now responsible
for all ReliaSoft-related sales and training within the
United Kingdom and Ireland. Welcome aboard! For more
details, please see the press release:
http://www.ReliaSoft.com/media/10312008_wilde_fea.htm.
For a list of all official ReliaSoft representatives,
please visit
http://Directory.ReliaSoft.com. |
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Call for Presentations
- Now that you have spent years developing and polishing
your reliability engineering skills, we want to give you
an opportunity to discuss your experiences with
colleagues in the discipline. The
2009 International Applied Reliability Symposium, North
America will be held June 9 - 12, 2009 in San
Diego, CA. This annual event provides a forum for
expert presenters from industry and government to come
together with reliability practitioners from all over
the world to discuss the application of reliability
principles to meet real world challenges. You are
invited to submit presentation proposal outlines by
December 5, 2008. The primary author for each
presentation delivered at the Symposium will receive
complimentary registration to the event and the
opportunity to win one of the Excellent Presentation
Awards. For more information and the required proposal
submission form, please visit
http://www.ARSymposium.org/present.htm. |
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Upcoming Public
Training Event Calendar |
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November 2008 |
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November 17 - 21, 2008:
MSMT Foundations
in
Bordeaux, France |
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November 18 - 19, 2008:
RS 475 FRACAS Principles
and Applications
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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November 20 - 21, 2008:
RS 490 Standards Based
Reliability Prediction
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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December 2008 |
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December 3 - 5, 2008:
RS 521 Advanced
Accelerated Life Testing Analysis
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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December 3 - 5, 2008:
RS 511 Application of
Reliability Growth Models in
Developmental Testing and Fielded
Systems
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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December 10 - 12, 2008:
RS 588 DOE: Experiment
Design and Analysis
in
Tucson, Arizona |
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December 15 - 19, 2008:
RS 540 Reliability and
Maintainability Analysis for Repairable
Systems
in
Chennai, India |
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January 2009 |
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January 19 - 21, 2009:
RS 560 Fundamentals of
Design for Reliability
in
Bangalore, India |
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