Basic Weibull Workshop

Instructors: Dr. Robert B. Abernethy, Wes Fulton

RMS (Reliability-Maintainability-Safety-Supportability) engineering is emerging as the newest discipline in product development due to new credible, accurate, quantitative methods. Weibull Analysis is foremost among these new tools. New and advanced Weibull and Crow-AMSAA techniques are a significant improvement over the original Weibull approach. They yield useful results even with extremely small samples and with data that has deficiencies. Special analytical methods are presented with actual case studies.

Participants in the Basic Workshop will learn the essential methods and techniques, and how to use Weibull Analysis software to apply these methods to their specific problems. Laptop required.

Benefits of Attending
By attending this workshop, you will be able to use Weibull's unique capabilities to:

Weibull Handbook and Software are included - a $960 value
Analyze design, development, production, and service failures
Model product lifetime and reliability
Evaluate supportability & maintainability plans
Analyze different types of inspection data
Reduce test substantiation, time and costs

Who Should Attend

Engineers responsible for reliability, safety, supportability, maintainability, materials, warranties, life cycle cost, design, structures, instrumentation and logistics will find these Weibull techniques extremely useful.

Continuing Education Units

Upon completion of the course, participants will be eligible to receive 1.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Text & Software Included

Each attendee will receive the entire SuperSMITH package, a $960 value. SuperSMITH contains: the New Weibull Handbook, written by Dr. Robert B. Abernethy, along with classwork, answers, and references; the latest version of WinSMITH Weibull and WinSMITH Visual software which is used in the workshop; and the Play-Time Tutorial Software Workbook. This state-of-the art, Windows software provides Weibull, Gumbel, Normal & Log Normal Analysis and allows the student time for actual hands-on PC experience, interpreting data of all types.

All students must bring a laptop computer.

Newly added features:

Reliability Growth Forecasting

Additional Operating Time Needed for Meeting Requirements

Cost Projections in either Present Cost or Future Cost Format

Accelerated Testing Results Visualization

Capability for Micro-electronics Issues

Special Techniques for Warranty Data Analysis

Program

Introduction & Overview
How to do Weibull Analysis
Interpretation of Good & Bad Weibulls - 2 & 3 Parameter
Interpretation of Bad Weibulls - Cusps, Dog Legs, Curves, Outliers
Failure Predictions and Weibull Risk Analysis: How Many Failures Will There be in the Next year, Five Years? With and Without Parts Replacement?
Case Studies, Customer Usage, Maintenance Planning, Goodness of Fit with the New Critical Correlation
Inspection Data: Special methods to improve accuracy - Inspection Option and Probit
Goodness of Fit with the Best New Method
Coefficients, Failure Forecasting
Weibull Experiments, Wire Rupture, Torsion, LCF
Suspension and Sample Size Effects on Uncertainty
Classwork, Problems and Solutions
An Introduction to WinSMITH™ Software, Features, Input, Analysis, Output
The Logic Diagram - A summary of Weibull Methods
Class Work Problems
Experimental Wire Data Distribution Analysis
"Playtime With SuperSMITH™" Tutorial, Hands-On Computer Experience with All Kinds of Problems
Review and Discussion of Class Work and Playtime Exercises
Introduction to Crow AMSAA

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