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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 organization’s 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
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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 |
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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 on-line 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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