Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM)
Presenter: Dr Chris Jackson
8-19 April 2024 | 9-20 September 2024
The course will be delivered virtually on the working days within this period from 8:00am to 12:00pm AEST
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Duration: 40 Hours | Price: $4,950
Course Aim
The 40-hour Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) Course, which includes both our RAM Introduction Course for the first 16 hours and our RAM Practitioners Course for the last 24 hours, is all about teaching participants the key tenets of making a ‘reliable system.’ This course is for those who are new to reliability engineering AND those more experienced engineers wanting to take their skills to the next level. Attendees who design, manufacture or otherwise work for a ‘producer organization’ will learn how to create a ‘reliability mindset’ to prevent problems before they occur. Problems are not limited to failures: reliability engineering at its most efficient and useful eliminates all manners of other problems such as issues identified in final production runs or basic design oversights that require expensive and time-consuming rework.
The first part of the course focuses on organizational management and culture which is always the first step on the journey towards reliability maturity. The last part of the course focuses on ‘RAM practice’ that includes an overview of probability, statistics, test planning, key Design for Reliability (DfR) activities and several other related topics. Students will be taught to focus on the ‘vital few’ ways their product, system, service or process can fail. Which means we only need to worry about the ‘vital few’ things we need to do to quickly and cheaply increase reliability.
Course Outline
Why is reliability valuable to you? Why Reliability | Organizational Champions of Reliability | The value of reliability
What is reliability? … to your organization? Reliability and randomness | So what is reliability? | Reliability Value Map | Reliability Methods
How does your team make reliability happen? Reliability decisions and culture | The pathway to reliability | Reliability Specification | Testing 101
How do YOU make reliability a thing? Winning friends and influencing people | (Why) Leadership | Reliability management. Leadership. Winning.
How do we stop failure happening? Causality | Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) 101 | Reliability Allocation | Smart Design
How do we tolerate things not being perfect? Fault Tolerance | System Reliability Modelling | Arithmetic and other math stuff | Basic Probability and Stuff | System Reliability Analysis
How do we describe (random) failure? How we describe what random looks like | The exponential distribution | The normal distribution | The lognormal distribution | The Weibull distribution
How do our components fail? Reliability Life Models | Reliability Data Collection and Classification | Reliability Testing | Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Reporting and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)
How reliable are our components? … and our system? Probability plotting 101 (Statistical Inference) | Probability plotting exercise | Confidence in our conclusions | Manufacturing for Reliability
How do we keep our things working? Maintaining for Reliability | Discrete probability distributions | Logistics Engineering | Reliability practice. Creation. Success.
Course Material
The following resources will be provided to attendees of this course:
An editable PDF course workbook
MTBF Demonstration Testing Template (Microsoft Excel) – licensed for student use only
Reliability Demonstration Testing Template (Microsoft Excel) – licensed for student use only
Weibull Plotting Paper