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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

This is a contract course designed to be delivered at the customer’s location or at the DoubleTree Hotel San Pedro 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.