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Reliability Engineering Academy

Reliability Black Belt

Training number: Reliability_RBB

Classroom Training:

You can attend our Reliability Black Belt® training as a classroom / face-to-face training.

At the end of the training, you have the opportunity to take an exam to become a certified Reliability Black Belt®. The certificate is awarded by the University of Stuttgart.

We offer the following types of trainings:

  • Public classroom / face-to-face training
  • In-house classroom / face-to-face training

The classroom / face-to-face training lasts 5 days and takes place all day. The venue is usually the Parkhotel Stuttgart Messe-Airport, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany.

Classroom Training 5 Days:

  • Mon. from 09:00 am to 05:15 pm
  • Tue. - Thu. from 08:15 am to 05:15 pm
  • Fri. from 08:15 am to 01:30 pm
  • Agenda, see pdf download
  • Fri. from 01:30 pm to 03:30 pm
  • Training documents in paper form
  • Training documents as pdf document
  • Exercises and calculation templates
  • Certificate of participation
  • incl. examination and certification fee
  • Catering during the training
  • Evening event
  • 3,300.00 excl. VAT
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Training content:

Reliability Management
  • Reliability process
  • Reliability targets – system view/component view
  • Reliability monitoring
  • Reliability growth management
Repairable Systems and RAM/LCC
  • Metrics of repairable systems (reliability, availability, maintainability, rate of occurrence of failure, mean cumulative function)
  • Failure data analysis of repairable systems
  • Point processes
  • Homogeneous Poisson process (HPP)
  • Renewal process
  • Power-law process (non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP))
  • Reliability-centered maintenance
  • Corrective and preventive maintenance
  • Effects of maintenance strategies on reliability, availability, and life cycle costs
  • Markov models
  • Boole-Markov models
  • Monte Carlo simulation
Design of Experiments, DoE
  • Fractional and full factorial experimental designs
  • Test for non-linearity
  • Main effects and interactions
  • Robust design - increasing the robustness of a design by consideration of non-linearities and interactions
  • Setting up of system behavior models from empirical data
Life-stress Models - Physics of Failure
  • Degradation modeling
  • Monte-Carlo simulation
  • Life-stress models of various technologies
  • Multi-parameter damage accumulation
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Target group:

Engineers, technicians, specialists, managers and executives from the areas of development, testing, design, research, production and quality assurance who wish to deepen their reliability skill-set.

About the topic:

Effective reliability engineering is about knowledge engineering: knowing why you do what you do, knowing that you do it well, and always learning how to do it better.

The Reliability Black Belt® adds specialist tools that are the key to deeper understanding of reliability and causes of failure.

Training procedure and goal:

The Reliability Black Belt® comprises the second module in the qualification as a Reliability Engineer. This module builds upon the structure provided by the Reliability Green Belt®. The Reliability Black Belt® adds specialized tools from the fields of Reliability Management, Design of Experiments, Durability Modeling, Repairable Systems and RAM/LCC; that allow development of greater understanding and improved decision-making.

The goal of this module is to train specialists who can independently solve complex problems and work on challenging issues in your organization. The Reliability Black Belt® is thus also able to professionally handle organizational and project-specific interfaces (e.g. Production, Sales and Purchasing).

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Prerequisites:

Participation in the Reliability Green Belt® training.

Software requirements:

Each participant must have a laptop with the following software: Microsoft Excel, Adobe Reader and Minitab (Version R15 or above). A demo version of the software Minitab can be downloaded from www.minitab.com.

Examination / certification:

The training will end in all cases with a certificate of participation. Furthermore, participants may elect to take a written examination for a certified Reliability Black Belt® at the end of the course. The certificate will be awarded by the University of Stuttgart and the Institute of Machine Components. The examination is in multiple choice form.

Venue:

Parkhotel Stuttgart Messe-Airport

Filderbahnstraße 2
70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen

In-house:​

We also offer all our seminars and trainings as an in-house event.

Coaching:

Should you so wish, we can put together a time and content tailored coaching concept for you after completion of the training.