Increasing Importance Of Reliability Across Program Management (Session 1D) $150.00
Both government and commercial organizations across the world are recognizing the importance of a strong reliability program to ensure success. This session will explore improvements and best practices for R&M implementation by the US Military, commercial entities and transportation companies.

Moderator
Reuben Mann, Northrop Grumman Corporation

The Impact Changes In Defense Policy on Reliability Sustainment (Paper 1D1)
Patrick M. Dallosta, Defense Acquisition University
Government Accounting Office and other major reports have identified significant reliability problems in defense programs that are rooted in poorly defined and implemented systems engineering processes and the lack of reliability growth programs. The paper addresses DoD’s governance processes and the increased emphasis on the Systems Engineering discipline, technical review processes, and Reliability Growth programs, and the impact of the Materiel Availability metric in design and sustainment.
Analysis Customized Warranty Policies for Heterogeneous Populations (Paper 1D2)
Dia St. John and C. Richard Cassady, Ph.D., University of Arkansas
We consider the development of one-dimensional, non-renewing, free-replacement warranty policies for heterogeneous customer populations through individually analyzing customer groups, each with its own time to failure distribution. In addition, we analyze the possible benefits gained though the use of a customized warranty policy over a standard policy for all customers.
Best Practices for Effective Reliability Program Plans (Paper 1D3)
Carl S. Carlson, Georgios Sarakakis, David J. Groebel, and Adamantios Mettas, ReliaSoft Corporation
In this paper we take a comprehensive look into the practice of developing and executing reliability program plans. We present best practices concerning the process of developing and implementing a reliability program plan, we identify the common pitfalls and the lessons learned from developing reliability program plans and we present the results of a broad survey that captures and categorizes common practices and problems when developing and implementing a reliability program plan.
Modeling and quantification of aging systems for maintenance optimization (Paper 1D4)
William Lair, SNCF, Sophie Mercier, Michel Roussignol, Ph.D., Paris Est University, and Rachid Ziani, SNCF
This paper deals with the maintenance optimization of an air conditioning system of a train. The air conditioning system is a parallel system consisting of seventeen aging components. For that matter, we model the system with a Piecewise Deterministic Markov Process (PDMP). The resolution of the C-K equation gives us the marginal distributions of this process. We calculate an approximation of these solutions with a finite volume algorithm and we use them to optimize a maintenance strategy.