Building a Reliability Program

Abstract

Carl and Fred discuss a voice message received on the Accendo Reliability “speak pipe.” The caller is trying to build a reliability program at his company. The company already has a good testing program, but needs to supplement with support for reliability in design.

Key Points

Join Carl and Fred as they discuss how to build a reliability program, building on a good testing program that is in place. Where do you start?
Topics include:

How should you go about recruiting and building a reliability team?
What reliability tools are most important?
What will each new reliability team member bring to the company?
Importance of following all of the six steps in the process to achieve high reliability.
Begin with what you are trying to achieve, the reliability vision.
Why a “gap assessment” is essential.
Who has responsibility for supplier reliability?
Importance of purchasing reliable parts, not just low cost.
Consider what are the product characteristics that create reliable parts.
Ask: how will the system or part will fail? How long will it last?
What goes into creating a good Design for Reliability program?
Guidance: get a good reliability plan in place, using the six step process.
It doesn’t take a long time to develop a good reliability plan, maybe a couple of days.

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.