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Certified Reliability Engineer

(Duration: 5 Days)
Introduction:
Assuring Reliability of new products is a major challenge for senior management of most
organizations. This Reliability Engineering workshop is designed to provide in-depth
understanding of Reliability Engineering Basics, Life Data Analysis, Reliability in Design,
Reliability Testing, Maintainability and Availability and various Statistical Techniques. For more
details, see agenda of the workshop on page 2.

According to American Society for Quality (ASQ): The Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) is a
professional who understands the principles of performance evaluation and prediction to improve
product/systems safety, reliability, and maintainability. The CRE Body of Knowledge (BOK) and
applied technologies include, but are not limited to, design review and control; prediction,
estimation, and apportionment methodology; failure mode and effects analysis; the planning,
operation, and analysis of reliability testing and field failures, including mathematical modeling;
understanding human factors in reliability; and the ability to develop and administer reliability
information systems for failure analysis, design, and performance improvement and reliability
program management over the entire product life cycle.

This workshop is designed based on body of knowledge published by ASQ. The course kit
includes a copy of Certified Reliability Engineer Handbook published by ASQ, additional training
material from Institute of Quality and Reliability and a CD with some useful templates and fully
functional trial versions of software. Classroom training is supported with hands on exercises and
tutorials. Participants are expected to bring scientific calculators and laptop computers for
effective learning. Some of the exercises are designed using reliability analysis software and
templates.

Who should attend the training?
The course is most appropriate for engineers and managers involved in
Design and/or Development of New Products
Reliability Testing of Products
Quality Assurance and improvement of current and new products
Warranty Data Analysis
Problem Solving and Quality/Reliability Improvement
Maintenance Engineers

Considering the course contents, it is expected that participants should have basic understanding
of business processes, should be able to use scientific calculators and computers, and should
have knowledge of basic mathematics and science.

About Certification:
On the last day of the workshop, a test of comprehension will be conducted similar to the exam
conducted by American Society for Quality. However there will be 75 multiple-choice questions
and the test duration is two hours certificate of passing will be issued to successful participants.
Participants can reappear for the exam again within six months of the workshop at no additional
fees.
To appear for ASQ certification exam, if participants are a graduate, they must have six years of
on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Reliability Engineer Body of
Knowledge. A minimum of three years of this experience must be in a decision-making position.
Decision-making is defined as the authority to define, execute, or control projects/processes and
to be responsible for the outcome. This may or may not include management or supervisory
positions. For more information about ASQ certification, visit website
http://www.asq.org/certification/reliability-engineer/index.html. Complete ASQ CRE Certification
brochure can be downloaded from http://www.asq.org/pdf/certification/inserts/cre-insert-2009.pdf.
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Agenda for the Training:
Day Topic Subtopic/details
1 Introduction and expectations of
participants and introduction of Faculty
1 Introduction to Reliability Definitions: Failure, Reliability, MTTF, MTBF, Failure Rate,
Maintainability, Availability etc.
1 Product Life Cycle Bathtub curve, Decreasing Failure Rate (Infant Mortality or
Burn-in period), Constant Failure Rate (Useful life), Increasing
Failure Rate (Wear-out period)
1 Basic Probability and Probability
Distributions in Reliability Engineering
Exponential, Weibull, Normal, Lognormal, Examples and
illustrations
1 Data Collection and Use Types of data, collection methods, data management and use,
Corrective and Preventive Action using failure analysis to find
root cause(s)
1 Life Data Analysis of Non-repairable
Systems
Complete and Censored Data, Identifying distribution,
Probability Plotting, Estimating Parameters of the distribution,
predicting reliability, Exercises
1 Reliability Modeling and Prediction Reliability Block Diagrams: Series and parallel systems,
combined reliability, redundancy: complete and partial, Physics
of failure mode, failure mechanisms, S-N Curve, Stress
Strength Analysis using distributions, Monte Carlo Simulation,
Markov Models
2 FMEA and FMECA FMEA Basics, Guidelines for Severity, Occurrence and
Detection Ranking, RPN and prioritization for corrective action,
revised rating, FMEA team dynamics, Developing DVP&R,
Small Group Exercise
2 Reliability in Design S-N Curve, Stress Strength Analysis using distributions ,
Tolerance Analysis: Worst Case Analysis, RMS, Use of Monte
Carlo Simulation, Redundancy, Design for X, Derating
2 Human Factors and considerations Relationship between reliability and human factors,
consideration of these factors in designs.
2 Reliability Prediction Assuming equal failure rates and ARINC apportionment
technique,
3 Reliability Testing Reliability Test strategies and planning, Environmental
considerations, Sampling Plans, Success Run Theorem,
Probability Ratio Sequential Testing (PRST), Determination of
sample size for testing, Degradation Testing, Software Testing,
Stress Screening
3 Reliability Growth and FRACAS Duane Model, AMSAA model for reliability growth, Exercise(s),
Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
3 Accelerated Life Tests (ALT) Introduction to ALT, Modeling considerations, Arrhenius and
other Models, Step Stress Testing, Illustrations and Exercise(s)
3 Availability and Maintainability Definitions, Maintenance Strategies, Preventive and Corrective
Maintenance, Nondestructive evaluation, (Predictive
Maintenance), Maintenance Time Distributions, Spare Parts
Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM),
4 Inferential Statistics Basic concepts: Null & Alternate Hypotheses, Producer's and
consumer's risks, confidence level, point and interval estimates
Z, t, F, Chi-square etc.
4 Design of Experiments Plan and conduct Full Factorial Experiments, Fractional
Factorials, Taguchi Designs with noise factors (robust design)
5 Warranty Data Analysis Warranty terms and
conditions, uses and limitations of warranty
data.
5 Quiz/Test of comprehension
5 Closing remarks and wrap up Certificate distribution

Note: Agenda shown in indicative and may vary to some extent depending on participants
profiles.
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Faculty:

Mr. Hemant Urdhwareshe, Master Black Belt and Director Institute of
Quality and Reliability (IQR) is the principal faculty for the program.
He has more than 28 years of experience in Manufacturing, Quality
and Engineering at Cummins India Limited (CIL). As head of Quality,
Reliability and subsequently Engineering functions at CIL, he was
actively involved in driving reliability improvement programs. He has
applied various reliability tools in reducing product failures and solving
complex manufacturing and field problems. He has conducted many in-house training
programmes on Leadership, Quality Engineering and management at CIL and on behalf
of Indian Institution of Production Engineers (IIPE), Pune Section. He has also published
many articles on Six Sigma and quality engineering.

Hemant has conducted many in-house programs in reliability engineering at Tata
Motors, M&M, Behr, Ashok Leyland, Petronas (Malaysia) etc.. he has also conducted
numerous Six Sigma & DFSS Black/Green Belt Programmes for Fleetguard Filters,
TACO, Alfa Laval, Menon Pistons, Mahindray Hinoday, Eaton Techologies and Forbes
Marshall. He has also conducted Six Sigma Green Belt public workshops. He has
trained more than 350 Black and Green Belts.

Hemant is a visiting faculty at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM),
Pune for Six Sigma and Business Statistics.
His book Six Sigma for Business Excellence is expected to be published in April 2010
by Pearson Education.

He is:
ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (2005)
The first ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt in India (2001)
The first ASQ Certified Quality Manager in India (1998)
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (1996) and
The only person in India with four or more certifications from ASQ
Recipient of Silver Standard 2003 award from Qimpro Foundation
Senior Member of ASQ, Fellow of IIPE and member of National Center for
Quality Management. (NCQM).
Qualified Lead Assessor

Hemant will be supported by other competent faculties.

Course Material:
1. A copy of Certified reliability Engineer Handbook by Donald Benbow and Hugh
Broome published by ASQ (Subject to availability). This will be supplemented
with Comprehensive workshop material and Question Bank from IQR.
2. Many useful templates and data files by IQR
3. Fully functional trial version of useful software for reliability analysis.

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Course Fees:

Registration with payment on or before 25 January 2010:

1 2 or 3 4 or more
Price Per Participant 17100 16150 15200
Service Tax 1761 1663 1566
Total Payable per participant 18862 17813 16766
1 2 or 3 4 or more
Price Per Participant including tax 474 428 404
Price in US $
Number of Participants
Price in Indian
Rupees


Registration after 25 January 2010:

1 2 or 3 4 or more
Price Per Participant 18000 17000 16000
Service Tax 1854 1751 1648
Total Payable per participant 19855 18751 17648
1 2 or 3 4 or more
Price Per Participant including tax 499 450 425 Price in US $
Number of Participants
Price in Indian
Rupees



Payment:
Registration will be confirmed after payment by DD/Cheque payable at par in
favour of Institute of Quality and Reliability, Pune.

Cancellation Policy:
Registration can be cancelled till 31 January 2010. Fees paid will be refunded
after deducting Rs.2500. Cancellation after this date is not possible.
Registration can be transferred prior to start of the course at no extra cost.
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About Institute of Quality and Reliability:
Institute of Quality and Reliability (IQR) was established in Nov. 2005, with primary
objective to help Industries for improving their business performance. IQR also supports
individuals aspiring to improve their knowledge and skills in Quality and Reliability. After
28 years of rich industrial experience in the Industry, at Cummins India Ltd. (CIL),
Hemant Urdhwareshe decided to start IQR. So far IQR has trained more than 350 Six
Sigma Black/Green Belts and about 500 individuals in the field of Quality and Reliability.

For registration or more information Contact us:
Institute of Quality and Reliability,
Plot No.39, Shantiban Cooperative Housing Society,
Near Gandhi Bhavan,
Kothrud, Pune 411029.

Phone:91-20-25367952,

Hemant Urdhwareshe: 9822014488 (Send SMS with your name and email id
if call is not answered)

Learning Center is located at Paud Road, Pune.

Email: ioqr@world-class-quality.com
Web site: www.world-class-quality.com

We are proud to be associated with our Customers:
Semco Electric