Patton Consultants, Inc.

 

Design for Serviceability Training

                                         DESIGN FOR SERVICEABILITY

                                    A Two-Day Professional Skills Workshop

                                                                 by

                                                Patton Consultants, Inc.

                       36 Blue Heron Point, Hilton Head, SC 29926

                                                        843-384-6232

 

OBJECTIVES:

 

1. Develop a practical understanding of the language, methods, techniques, tools, and management fundamentals of product reliability, maintainability, availability, quality, and serviceability from product concept through end of useful life.

 

2. Create understanding across all involved functions of requirements for service­ability and ways of meeting them.

 

  • Increase participants' motivation and competence in applying proven quality, reliability, maintainability, availability, serviceability, and life cycle cost / profit practices in their professional work; and to influence others to do likewise.

 

  • Refine participants’ abilities to consider how products can be designed for superior manufacturability and serviceability consistent with the pressures of technology, time, and finances.

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

 

OEM suppliers, or service partners concerned with planning, designing, producing, maintaining, and supporting durable equipment; especially Design Engineers, Diagnostics Developers, Documentation Creators, Financial Analysts, Human Factors Advisors, Industrial Designers, Inventory Specialists, Logistics Analysts, Manufacturing Specialists, New Product Planners, Program Managers, Purchasing Agents, Quality Assurance Staff, Repair Center Supervisors, and Technical Assistance Analysts,


 

SPECIAL FEATURE:

 

Participants may receive a copy of MAINTAINABILITY AND MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT (4th Edition) by Joseph D. Patton, Jr. for reading beyond this course.

 

It is expected that experienced people will share their expertise to help others learn.

 

                                                 All materials Copyright 2006 by Patton Consultants, Inc.


TOPICS INCLUDE:

 

Fundamentals Day One

 

l.  Administration and Introduction

              Distribute course outlines and bound materials

              Course objectives

              Student and instructor introductions

                                         

2.  Terms, Definitions, and Effective Metrics

 

3.  Sources of Assistance                                                  

              Reference publications

              Data sources

              Related organizations - AFSMI, ASME, ASQ, ISA, IEEE, IIE, NASM, SOLE, SRE

              Decision aids                                             

 

4.  Importance of good Product Reliability, Availability, Quality, and Serviceability (PRAQS)

              Examples of products - good and bad             

              Current issues  

              Demands of the marketplace                              

 

5.  Interactions of Quality, Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Manufacturability, and Serviceability

             

6.  The Reliability and Maintainability Processes                                 

              Financial Case

              Requirements

              Allocation

              Specification

              Strategy

              Criteria

              Design Translation

              Prediction

              Demonstration

              Verification

 

7.  Quantitative Methods                                     

              Data Gathering                                                      

              Statistics for DFS

              Reporting systems

              Problem analysis

              Models

              Computer assistance   

 

8.  Customers’ perspectives

              Avoiding any need for service

              Current concepts to service  products

              Self-maintenance                                                  

              Anatomy of service calls

              Diagnostics (self- and remote)

              Software interfaces

 

9.   When something fails, how to diagnose and fix it

              Help desk phone support

              Dispatch of parts

              Third party ‘feet on the street’                                        

              Reliability-based maintenance                         

              Elimination for improvement

              Preventive / Predictive

              On condition

              Condition-monitoring

              Fixed interval

              Depot repairs

 

10.  Life Cycle Concepts

              Emotions versus economics

              Hard ‘now’ costs versus soft ‘future’ savings

              Guidelines costs and numbers

              Warranty costs

              Design to Unit Cost

              Design to Life Cycle Cost

              Life Cycle Profits

              Tradeoff analysis

 

11.  Design guidelines and  product examples

              Current and future products for examination

              Team competition to recognize opportunity and design  improvement

 

12. Any Remaining Questions

                                                                               

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 Case exercises are inserted at appropriate places to involve participants in active role play, analysis and team competition. 

 

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