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Characterising the Reliability of a Blower System for Medical Devices

This month's featured article is a guest submission from Deven Subramoney of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.

The project's objective is to provide an integrated approach to reliability assessment, addressing the issues of component reliability as well as the blower system reliability. The document defines the reliability goals, sets out the reliability management approach taken, and identifies design for reliability and assurance activities executed to identify components and weaknesses that limit the blower system reliability and how to address them appropriately.

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ReliaSoft at RAMS 2017 in Orlando, Florida

We are proud to announce our continued participation in the annual RAMS symposium. The event will be held at Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Florida from January 23 - 26, 2017. We'll be presenting the following papers, as well as hosting an exhibit booth to help you learn more about our products and services. For more details on the symposium, visit: http://www.rams.org.

Paper Presentations:

Quantifying the Effect of a Potential Corrective Action on Product presented by Umur Yenal, HBM Prenscia

Warranty Prediction for Parts with Design Changes presented by Miklós Szidarovszky, HBM Prenscia

Tutorials:

An Introduction to R & M Management presented by Carl Carlson, ReliaSoft consultant, and Fred Schenkelberg, FMS Reliability

Understanding and Applying the Fundamentals of FMEAs presented by Carl Carlson, ReliaSoft consultant

2017 Training Calendar Released

Start planning ahead for reliability training next year – the 2017 calendar of ReliaSoft public seminar events is now available online for all regions. It is never too early to schedule for next year! Explore our easy to use, web-based event list to locate an event near you: http://seminars.reliasoft.com/dates.htm.

Congratulations to the 2016 ARS Asia Pacific Excellent Presentation Award Winners

We would like to thank all the reliability professionals who presented at this year's Applied Reliability Symposium – Asia Pacific in Shenzhen, China. Congratulations to this year's Excellent Presentation Award winners:

• 1st Place (Gold) - Kang Rui of Beihang University
  The Strategy of Empowering China via China Manufacturing Reliability System Engineering
• 2nd Place (Silver) - Eden H. C. Chen of CTI Group, International
  Guiding the Key Suppliers to Establish a Practical, Workable, Effective and also Affordable Reliability Program With a Focus to Better Serve the Supply Chain
• 3rd Place (Bronze) - Li Xiupeng of Philips Lighting (China) Investment Co. Ltd.
  How to Define an Effective Burn-in Plan for Electronic Products
  

If you are interested in participating in any future ARS as a presenter, learn more about the benefits of being a presenter at http://www.arsymposium.org/present.htm.