Reliability, Maintenance & Managing Risk

A week of short courses on Reliability and Risk
July 20-23, 2026
Huntsville, AL
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Schedule and timing

Program

Monday July 20 

  • Introduction to process improvement through a PB&J sandwich (thought mapping, process/product mapping, PDSA, 7 quality tools, etc.) 
  • Reliability strategy vs. tactical planning, aligning DfR, ALT, RDT, and growth models to business objectives 
  • RCA/problem solving 
  • FRACAS implementation and closed-loop reliability growth systems 

Tuesday July 21 

  • Weibull Analysis & Risk Forecasting 
  • Reliability Demonstration Test (RDT) – Strategy, Methods & Application 
  • Facilitation skills 
  • Free: Public Speaking and presentation skills 

Wednesday July 22 

  • Risk-Based Design for Safety, Robustness and Reliability 
  • An approach to DFR – Reliability 9 step -plus NUDs – model  
  • Strategic planning 

Thursday July 23 

  • Introduction to degradation analysis 
  • Intro to Monte Carlo simulations 
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