Reliability and Risk Training

ITEM Short Courses

1-Day Workshops

ITEM Software offers short courses which cover the methodologies and techniques used to satisfy most reliability and safety requirements. Using lecture and hands-on activities, each class will give you an excellent overview of how to approach your reliability analysis goals.

ITEM ToolKit Workshop

Three-Day Workshop

This workshop is designed to provide hands-on training on our flagship Reliability software, ITEM ToolKit. The main emphasis is on how to utilize the software and its modules. Attendees learn how to start projects, and construct and analyze models in ITEM ToolKit software.

The course includes a summary of the methodologies that relate to each module, followed by complete instructions on all relevant topics, from adding basic components, to analyzing components and complex systems, viewing results and creating reports. The ITEM ToolKit modules featured in this course are MIL-217, Bellcore, Mechanical, FMECA, and RBD. (Other modules are covered briefly as well.)

Quantitative Risk Assessment Course and Workshop

Three-Day Lecture/Workshop

The objective of this course is to provide you with an overview of PRA concepts and their applications to simple and complex systems and processes. Topics include: Introduction of risk terminology, Risk metrics, Risk perception, Risk management, Methods for risk scenario development (e.g., Event Trees and Fault Trees), and methods of solution.

Additionally, basic probabilistic models for calculating likelihood of risk scenarios, Data gathering Model parameter estimation methods including use of expert judgment and partial evidence, risk ranking and importance measures, assessment and propagation of uncertainties are covered. The workshop section of the class (1.5 days) introduces you to ITEM QRAS via a series of exercises and class-driven modeling scenarios.

Reliability Modeling

Four-Day Lecture/Workshop

This course provides an introduction to state-of-the-art reliability engineering and its role in optimal product development. Reliability metrics and mathematics are carefully developed and their use in analyses and predictions are described.

The probabilistic nature of failure observations are presented, along with a discussion of the deterministic nature of failure processes.

System analysis is described utilizing bottom-up techniques such as FMEA and top-down techniques including fault tree analysis. Reliability allocation techniques are included, along with the use of standards and handbooks such as Bellcore and MIL-HDBK-217.

The workshop portion of this class is designed to provide hands-on training on our flagship Reliability software, ITEM ToolKit. The main emphasis is on how to utilize the software and its modules. Attendees learn how to start projects, and construct and analyze models in ITEM ToolKit software. Complete instructions on all relevant topics, from adding basic components, to analyzing components and complex systems, viewing results and creating reports. The ITEM ToolKit modules featured in this course are MIL-217, Bellcore, RDF 2000, Mechanical, and RBD. (Other modules are covered briefly as well.)

Safety Modeling

Three-Day Lecture/Workshop

Participants learn basic to advanced safety modeling concepts and techniques, which can be universally applied in any industry or governmental entity worldwide. Safety-related risks and controls to improve efficiency on simple to complex system, processes and product designs will also be identified.

The overall objective is to learn how to identify management, engineering, and technical safety-related risks and to enhance risk management/controls to ensure acceptable risks, system safety and liability claims defense. Safety modeling concepts, terms and definitions, as well as overall safety modeling approaches from national and international industry and government are discussed in this course. Also discussed are various analysis methods and techniques to analyze systems, system accidents and system risks.

The workshop portion of this class is designed to provide hands-on training on our flagship Reliability software, ITEM ToolKit. The main emphasis is on how to utilize the software and its modules. Attendees learn how to start projects, and construct and analyze models in ITEM ToolKit software. Complete instructions on all relevant topics, from adding basic elements, to analyzing complex systems, viewing results and creating reports. The ITEM ToolKit modules featured in this course are FMECA, Fault Tree, and Event Tree. (Other modules are covered briefly as well.)

Advanced Reliability Topics

Three-Day Lecture

This course provides an overview of a variety of advanced reliability techniques, such as:

Reliability assessment of dynamic systems, characterized by their change in functional and physical configuration as a function of time and tightly interacting and interdependent components.

The Bayesian approach to probability and its application to reliability analysis. This approach is particularly useful for highly reliable components and systems where failures in test and field operation are very rare, requiring the use of all other non-statistical engineering information and generic data to estimate reliability.

Collection and statistical analysis of reliability data, covering both the engineering and analytical aspects of the development of a reliability database and estimation of reliability parameters, such as failure rates and mean repair times. Both the classical and Bayesian approaches to parameter estimation are covered, while establishing the link between the corresponding tools and techniques.

Markov Chain Analysis is a powerful modeling and analysis technique with strong applications in time-based reliability and availability analysis. The reliability behavior of a system is represented using a state-transition diagram, which consists of a set of discrete states that the system can be in, and defines the speed at which transitions between those states take place. As such,

Fault Tree Analysis is one of the core techniques used in reliability, risk and safety analyses. A Fault Tree forms a logical representation of the manner in which combinations of basic events, often made up of failures at the component level, could lead to a hypothesized failure of a system.

Space is limited and reserved on a first-come-first-served basis.

All payments must be confirmed 30 days prior to the scheduled class date.

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