30 May 2007

Course Description

This is a course in the practical application of system safety and reliability analysis tools and techniques.  It addresses in methods suggested by MIL-STD 882D and SAE ARP 4761 for safety assessment.  These include Hazard Analysis, FMECA, Fault Tree, Human Factors Analysis and Common Cause Analysis.

Who Should Attend

Any safety analyst/engineer or reliability engineer whose success depends on your ability to quantify and evaluate risk in the design process. Any one who wishes a better understanding of FTA fundamentals and receive feedback from an experienced practitioner/instructor. Managers of safety/reliability engineers who need to understand the methods available to improve system safety and reliability. Those responsible for implementing the design review and/or reliability process.

How You Will Benefit

You will enhance your ability to identify and evaluate hazards early in the design and development process. You will be able you to understand and explore how to use and apply quantitative and analytical methods. Presentations are supplemented with case studies and problem solving to encourage understanding of the mathematical models which form the foundation for risk assessment and reliability analysis.

Course Topics

The engineering decision process Analytical approaches and techniques Bounding systems for analysis Fundamentals of probability theory Set theory and Boolean algebra Applications of Boolean algebra Useful distributions for safety and reliability Applications and examples Inductive vs. deductive approaches PHA, FMECA, FTA, etc. Inductive Methods History and applications FMECA FHA PHA Contractual and disciplinary interfaces   Measures for safety and reliability MTBF Failure or hazard rate concept   Reliability block diagrams Models for complex systems Redundancy Reliability computations using minimal path Probabilistic design methodology Safety factor and reliability Sensitivity Fault Tree Analysis Definitions and symbols Demonstrative vs. investigative models The analytical process Guidelines and ground rules Fault Tree Construction Introductions to problems Workshop sessions Instructor solutions Results generalized to illustrate design principles Fault Tree Evaluation and Applications Quantitative vs. qualitative evaluations Derivation and treatment of minimal cut-sets Human, software, maintenance and similar contributions   Reliability Estimation and Life Testing Design of test plans Estimation using different life distributions Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals Combined Cause/Consequence Models FTA for multi-function systems Event trees and other consequence models Combined event tree/fault tree models Special cut-set considerations in combined models Some Additional Design Considerations Design for safety Color and reliability Single failure systems: active vs. passive components Sources and treatments of common cause failure Software Safety Analysis Human error issues for design

Course Administration

This is a contract course designed to be delivered at the customer’s location or at the Pacific Palms Conference Center in Southern California.  The course is 8 academic days in length (56 hours).  Classes start at 0800 and end at 1700 except on the last day when classes end at noon.

Contact SCSI at (310) 517-8844 or 800-545-3766 (US and Canada only) for details on this course.