2004
International Applied Reliability Symposium
The 2004 International Applied Reliability Symposium provides a forum for expert presenters from industry and government to come together with reliability practitioners to discuss the application of reliability principles to meet real world challenges. The majority of the presenters have been applying reliability, maintainability and related techniques in their day-to-day work for years and the Symposium has been designed to encourage results-oriented presentations with interactive discussions about best practices, success stories and lessons learned.
2004 Symposium Theme: "Sharing applications, success stories and lessons learned in reliability and maintainability engineering."
Keynote Address
The Keynote Address will be delivered at 8 a.m. on Thursday June
17, 2004 by Rear Admiral Michael C. Bachmann, United States Navy. The topic of the address will be
The Challenge of Sustaining Aging Naval Weapon Systems.
Presentations from Government and Industry
The 2004 Symposium program matrix consists of two concurrent tracks with ten presentations and two in-depth
tutorials for each track. Attendees can choose presentations/tutorials from
either track. With two options for every session, you can configure the
Symposium experience to meet your specific interests and needs! Some of the
presentation topics include:
- Reliability as a Systems Engineering
Investment, Not a Cost
- Reliable Operations - Integrating
Reliability Methods with Operations Management
- FMEA and Design of Experiments: Working
Together
- Challenges in System Reliability --
Modeling and Analysis
- Implementing FRACAS in a Commercial
Environment
- Customer Usage Profiling and Development
of Fatigue Based Reliability Specifications
- A Reliability Engineer’s Use of Warranty
Cost Information
These and other topics will be presented by
experienced practitioners in the field. Presenting organizations include
General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Quantum, Raytheon, Seagate, U.S. Army,
U.S. Navy and many more.
In-Depth Tutorials
The Symposium offers four in-depth
tutorials on key reliability, maintainability and related topics. Tutorial
instructors are experts in the principles, theory and applications of the
relevant analysis methods/techniques, with extensive experience providing
training and analysis for both government and industry applications. The
tutorial subjects include:
- Understanding Quantitative
Accelerated Life Testing by Pantelis Vassiliou of ReliaSoft
Corporation
- Essential Elements of a Reliability
Program by Patrick Hetherington of the Reliability Analysis Center (RAC)
- Reliability Growth Testing and Data
Analysis by Larry H. Crow of ReliaSoft Corporation
- Reliability Leadership by David
Olwell of the Naval Postgraduate School
Hosted Reception
Symposium registration includes a
hosted reception on Thursday June 17, 2004 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. aboard the
Bahia Belle, a "Turn of the Century" Mississippi-style
sternwheeler.
Registration Details
The 2004 Symposium is organized by
ReliaSoft Corporation and the Reliability Analysis Center. It will be held
June 16 - 18, 2004 at the Catamaran Resort on Mission Bay in San Diego,
California. Register by March 1, 2004 to take advantage of the reduced
advanced registration fee.
Registration details and the complete
program matrix for the Symposium are available on the Web at
http://www.ARSymposium.org.
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