Clarion Technical Conferences

Instructors

Weibull Workshop

Dr. Robert B. Abernethy is known worldwide for his expertise in jet engine performance, measurement uncertainty analysis, and Weibull analysis. He has presented his Weibull Workshop in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Israel, The Netherlands, and the USA. More than 8,000 students have attended his seminars. More than 14,000 copies of his textbook, The New Weibull Handbook, have been sold. Dr. Abernethy graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a B.Sc.ME and in 1958 received his M Sc in Industrial Management. He was the Fulbright Scholar for science and math to Great Britain, where he obtained his DIC and PhD degrees in statistics from the Imperial College of Science in 1965. He retired from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft after 32 years as Manager of Reliability, Safety, Maintainability, and Statistical analysis. He has awards from AIAA, ASME, ASQ, ISA. and SAE for his work in Weibull analysis and measurement uncertainty. He is a fellow of ASME (2003), SAE, ASQ, The Royal Statistical Society, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA for his development of Weibull technology, Weibayes methodology, failure forecasting, and the Weibull substantiation test designs. He founded and chaired both the SAE G11 Reliability Division and the SAE E33 Committee on Aircraft Performance.Measurement. He was Chief American delegate to ISO TC30 SC9, sponsored by ASME and ANSI. He chaired two ASME committees on measurement uncertainty.

Mr. Wes Fulton received his B.S.M.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology and his M.S.M.E. from California State Univ. at Long Beach. He is Founder and CEO of Fulton Findings. He was a program engineer/manager for AiResearch Los Angeles Div., Allied-Signal Aerospace Corp. He has extensive experience developing systems and components for aerospace applications and 15 years experience as a private programmer. He has developed WinSMITHTMVisual, WeibullSMITHTM, LogNormSMITHTM, Normal+SMITHTM, Visual*SMITHTM, BiWeibullSMITHTM, and MonteCarloSMITHTM analysis software. As a program engineer and program manager for aircraft flight control actuation projects, especially maneuvering fly-by-wire flight controls, he has been involved with and responsible for the following: Taiwanese Indigenous Defensive Fighter (IDF) leading edge flap actuation system (LEFAS) development and production; the Rockwell/MBB X-31A LEFAS flight test; and the Boeing 757 ride comfort program. He co-patented a multi-fuseable shaft (high performance drive train device). He is a member of ASME, IEEE, and the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc.

Life-Cycle Costing

H. Paul Barringer is a leading manufacturing, engineering, and reliability consultant. The author of the basic training courses Reliability Engineering Principles, Process Reliability, and Life Cycle Cost, he has more than 35 years of engineering and manufacturing experience in design, production, quality, maintenance, and reliability of technical products. Paul is particularly experienced in the technical and bottom-line aspects of operating a business with an understanding of how reliable products and processes contribute to financial business success. He has held positions as director of engineering in an ISO 9001facility; director of manufacturing, engineering, and plant manager for domestic and international facilities at an oilfield tubular goods firm; and operations manager in a multi-plant manufacturing operation for high-speed equipment.

Analysis of Accelerated Test Data

Dr. Wayne Nelson consults privately on and teaches engineering applications of Statistics for many companies. Formerly with General Electric Co. for 23 years, he consulted across many company divisions. He was elected a Fellow of the Inst. of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Amer. Soc. for Quality (ASQ), and the Amer. Statistical Assoc. (ASA) for his contributions to Reliability data analysis and Accelerated Testing. In addition to the course text, he authored Applied Life Data Analysis (Wiley 1982), Recurrent Events Data Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications (ASA-SIAM 2003), and two ASQ booklets. The ASQ awarded him the 2003 Shewhart Medal for his technical innovations. Among his 120+ literature publications, he received the Brumbaugh Award, Wilcoxon Prize, and Youden Prize of ASQ and eight Outstanding Presentation Awards of ASA. He has a Ph.D. in Statistics and an M.S. in Physics from the Univ. of Illinois and a B.S. in Physics from Caltech. Contact him at WNconsult@aol.com and www.members.aol.com/WNconsult.

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Weibull Analysis Workshop and Life Cycle Costing Course