Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Training

Commitment 3 Days, 7-8 hours a day.
Language English
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Delivery Options Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live

COURSE OVERVIEW

Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Training course bring together important technical concepts to identify and eliminate the root causes of failures occurring in complex systems, subsystems, and components. The course emphasizes the development and implementation of a failure analysis methodology for use throughout an engineering organization. We will show you how to utilize brainstorming, the 5-Why technique, Ishikawa diagrams, mind-mapping, and fault tree analysis for identifying all potential failure causes. The Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design course covers hardware analysis, statistical analysis, design evaluation, and other pertinent tools and techniques to evaluate potential failure causes and then zero in on the most likely causes.

The Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Training course include the design of experiments and other statistical evaluation techniques, including hypothesis testing, z-test, t-test, f-test (ANOVA), and Taguchi design of experiment technologies, with a special emphasis on selecting factors and factor ranges for Taguchi evaluation. The use of built-in Excel statistical analysis capabilities and templates for Excel-based Taguchi tests and operating characteristic curve evaluations provide a focused suite of failure analysis methodologies.

The Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design course present corrective action alternatives and a framework for selecting optimal intermediate and longer-term corrective actions. The course utilizes real-life case studies to help you apply these tools effectively. At the end of the course, you will have learned how to identify dominant failure modes through quantity and cost-based Pareto analyses, identify the root causes of systems failures, select and implement effective corrective actions, and work as an inter-organizational, multidisciplinary failure analysis team.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?
  • 3 days of Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Training with an expert instructor
  • Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Electronic Course Guide
  • Certificate of Completion
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • Work together in an effective multi-disciplinary team environment to resolve complex system failures.
  • Objectively identify all potential failure causes using fault tree analysis and other technologies.
  • Objectively evaluate the likelihood of all potential failure causes.
  • Utilize advanced Taguchi design of experiments and other statistical techniques.
  • Identify the most likely failure causes.
  • Proactively eliminate potential failure causes before they occur.
CUSTOMIZE IT
CUSTOMIZE IT
  • We can adapt this Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Training course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design course:

  • This course is aimed at engineers, design engineers, process engineers, manufacturing engineering, quality assurance engineers, and scientists
CLASS PREREQUISITES
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Root Cause Failure Analysis and Experiment Design Training course are:

  • While there are no formal prerequisites, the course does assume a process, industrial, manufacturing, or engineering background.

COURSE SYLLABUS

DAY 1: ROOT CAUSE FAILURE ANALYSIS AND CAUSE IDENTIFICATION
  • Introductory Concepts
    • Root cause failure analysis philosophy
    • The four-step problem-solving approach
    • Systems and component failures
    • The inherent value of failed hardware
    • Continuous improvement concepts and root cause failure analysis
    • The value of a priori failure cause identification
    • Case Study: The Mast-Mounted Sight
    • Class Discussion: Dominant Client Failures
  • Identifying Potential Failure Causes
    • Brainstorming
    • Mind-mapping
    • The 5-Why’s technique
    • Ishikawa diagrams
    • Fault tree analysis history, applications, and capabilities
    • Fault tree analysis construction
    • Fault tree gate usage and interpretation
    • Fault tree analysis quantification
  • Case Study: The VAMP Biomedical Device
  • Group Exercises: Fault Tree Analysis Application to Client’s Failures
  • Developing a Failure Analysis Action Plan
    • Using Failure Mode Assessment and Assignment (FMA&A) matrices
    • Failure analysis management
    • Failure analysis meetings
    • Failure analysis teams
  • Case Study: The Coagulation Filtration Water Treatment System
  • Group Exercises: Developing FMA&A Plans for Client’s Failures
  • Homework Assignment: Laser Optics Debonding Case Study
DAY 2: POTENTIAL FAILURE CAUSE EVALUATION AND RELEVANT STATISTICAL CONCEPTS
  • Case Study Review
  • Evaluating Potential Failure Causes
    • “What’s Different” analysis
    • Test and inspection data, material certifications, and SPC data
    • Flow charts for product performance and process evaluations
    • Failed hardware conformance assessment
    • Component failure analysis technologies, including optical microscopy, SEM, FTIR, EDAX, X-ray, N-ray, SIMS, and Auger analysis
    • Basic metallurgical and electronic component evaluations
    • Evaluating leaks
  • Case Study: The CBU-87/B
  • Basic Statistical Concepts and the Failure Analysis Relationship
    • The normal curve and design considerations
    • Excel evaluations for means, standard deviations, and composite standard deviations
  • Group Exercises: Identifying Statistical Considerations for Client’s Failures
  • The Operating Characteristic Curve
    • The Binomial distribution
    • Producer versus consumer risk
    • Using Excel to evaluate the probability of passing a test
  • Group Exercises: Updating FMA&A Plans for Client’s Failures
DAY 3: STATISTICAL EVALUATIONS, CORRECTIVE ACTION, COURSE WRAP-UP
  • Design of Experiments
    • Intelligent test design
    • Predicting outcomes
    • Designing meaningful experiments
    • Test readiness reviews
    • Contingency planning
  • Hypothesis Testing
    • Stating the null hypothesis
    • Z-tests
    • T-tests
    • Using Excel’s built-in statistics functions to simplify hypothesis testing
  • Analysis of Variance
    • ANOVA history
    • The f-test
    • Using ANOVA for assessing performance differences
    • Designing tests to confirm failure causes
    • Using Excel to simplify ANOVA testing
    • ANOVA risks
  • Taguchi Fractional Factorial Experiments
    • Taguchi background
    • Taguchi success stories
    • The nature of fractional factorial experiments
    • Factor selection
    • Factor limit determination
    • Calculations
    • Case Study: The Navy Aerial Refueling System
    • Class Team Exercises: Taguchi Applications Discussion for Client’s Failures
    • Using Excel to simplify Taguchi testing
  • Corrective Action
    • Corrective action definitions
    • Corrective action order of precedence
    • Design modifications
    • Process modifications
    • Requirements relaxation
    • Screening
    • Other corrective actions
    • Using the FMA&A matrix for corrective action identification and tracking
    • Case Study: Corrective Action Examples
  • Preventive Action
    • Using failure analysis to guide preventive action identification and implementation
    • Creating a product-oriented Lessons Learned document
    • A suggested failure analysis procedure
  • Recap, Q/A, and evaluations
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