ENMA 6050:
Reliability, Failure Analysis, and Risk Assessment
Course Description
Thanks to approaches such as
statistical process control, total quality management, and most recently design
for six sigma, the past decades have seen tremendous
improvements in product, process, and system quality and reliability. Yet somehow, things still seem to go wrong,
and sometimes in a very big way.
ENMA 6050 provides students
with a broad overview of why good things go bad. Students are provided with a toolbox of
commonly applied reliability, failure analysis, and risk assessment tools,
including:
·
Process flow
diagrams
·
Fishbone diagrams
·
Human factors
analysis
·
Fault tree analysis
·
Root cause
analysis
·
Failure mode and
effects analysis (FMEA)
Industry/business-sponsored
student team projects provide the mechanism for students to apply these tools
to real-world problems.
This course places special
attention on management issues related to failure in large, complex systems,
with case studies providing students with examples of how management can
contribute to or preferably minimize reliability issues.
Note: As a core course in the MS – Engineering Management
program, this course does not address classical quality and reliability
practitioner tools such as defect probability distributions, MTBF calculations,
etc. This course is directed primarily
toward management of projects and people that involved in developing and
maintaining high quality and high reliability products, processes, and
services.