System Safety and Reliability Analysis
March 22-26, 2010
Puget Sound Plaza, Seattle, WA
These powerful methods originally developed and applied in the aerospace and nuclear power industries are increasingly relevant in a variety of business and industrial environments including manufacturing, consumer products, utilities and natural resource extraction.
Continuous changes in technology, environmental regulation, public safety concerns and the need to do more with less all make the analysis of complex systems even more demanding. As the level of uncertainty surrounding probable outcomes increases, the safety professional's ability to accurately predict responses is integral to the design process.
- Receive intensive training and expert guidance on fundamental methods to increase safety and ensure the reliability of complex systems. This working course taught by two leading experts enables you to practice what you learn.
- Understand and use Fault Tree Analysis and other quantitative methods to establish a basis for system safety requirements.
- Learn how to measure and test for reliability using methods such as Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) and how to estimate a success level using a basic probability model.
- Learn how to reduce waste and to avoid critical system failures, false alarms and risky re-starts.
- Two-week, seminar style course offers you unique opportunities to share ideas and experiences with the instructor and other professionals.
Why You Should Attend
- Enhance your ability to identify and evaluate hazards early in the design and development process. Your ten days of participation will enable you to understand and explore how to use and apply quantitative and analytical methods.
- Address your specific concerns during daily class sessions and more informally, after class. Network with other professionals from the US and Europe in a casual, relaxed environment. 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. Materials authored by the instructor will later serve as a useful reference tool.
Who Should Attend
- You are a safety analyst/engineer or reliability engineer whose success depends on your ability to quantify and evaluate risk in the design process.
- You wish to expand your understanding of FTA fundamentals and receive feedback from an experienced practitioner/instructor.
- You lead a group of safety/reliability engineers and you need to understand the methods available to improve system safety and reliability. You are responsible for implementing the design review and/or reliability process
- Aermacchi S.P.A.
- Aeronautical Systems Center
- AETC Studies & Analysis Squadron
- Air Force Material Command
- Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
- Air Force Research Lab
- Air Force Space Command
- Boeing
- Boeing Defense & Space Group
- C-17 System Program Office
- Defense Nuclear
- Developmental Test Command
- FAA
- GE OEC Medical Systems
- GE Power Systems
- Harris Corporation
- Hitachi Computer Products
- HQ US Army Tecom
- IIT Research Institute
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Lockheed Martin Missile & Fire Control
- Magneti Marelli SpA
- Marine Corps Programs Dept.
- Navair
- Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
- Naval Surface Warfare Center
- Naval Warfare Assessment Station Corona
- NSWC Crane
- OEC Medical Systems
- Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center
- Puget Sound Navel Shipyard
- Sandia National Laboratories
- Singapore Technologies Dynamics Pte Ltd
- SMC/CWSNR Det11
- SRS Technologies
- Stirling Technology Company
- STZ Softwaretechnik
- The Aerospace Corporation
- US Air Force
- US Air Force (Logistics)
Course Location
The course will be conducted at Puget Sound Plaza, in downtown Seattle. Detailed course location, a campus map and parking information will be included in your confirmation letter.
Course Schedule
The course will meet 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday, March 22 through Friday, March 26. Participants may receive assignments to complete during evening and/or weekend hours.
Course Lodging
Hotel rooms have been blocked at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel. Ask for "System Safety Rooms", Rooms cost $159 + tax. Block held until April 22, 2010. http://www.fairmont.com/seattle.
Course Fees
$2,150 on or before February 22; $2,250 thereafter. Course fees include reference materials authored by the instructor, a copy of Fault Tree Handbook, and a certificate of completion awarding 3.4 Continuing Education Units from the University of Washington.
Instructor
Dr. Kailash [Kal] C. Kapur has been teaching and conducting research and consulting in system reliability, safety and systems design and engineering for the last 40 years and has written a major textbook, "Reliability in Engineering Design" [Wiley, 1977]. Dr. Kapur has extensively consulted and taught courses on these topics with over fifty Fortune 500 companies and organizations such as FAA, NASA and various groups in DoD. He is presently a Professor of Industrial and systems Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington and also was the Director of Industrial Engineering (1993-1999). He was a Professor and the Director of the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Oklahoma from 1989-1992 Dr. Kapur received the Ph. D. degree in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, California. He received the Allan Chop Technical Advancement Award from the Reliability Division and the Craig Award from the Automotive Division of American Society for Quality. He is a Fellow of American Society for Quality, a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a registered professional engineer.
Continuing Educations Units
Course participants will earn 3.4 CEUs upon successful completion of this course. The CEU is a nationally recognized measure of participation in a noncredit continuing education program that meets established criteria for increasing knowledge and competency.