1. Learning Impact – Reliability and
Availability Modeling with Weibull
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Knowledge (What Shall I Know)
How to Calculate & Interpret
Weibull Parameters
How to Build Process Reliability
Plots
How to Improve Data Collection
How to Create Reliability Block
Diagrams
How to Identify Single Point
Failures
How to Determine System
Reliability & Availability
Ability (What Shall I Practice)
Analyze Failure Data
Analyze Process Data to
Determine Losses
Create System RBDs
Calculate System Reliability
Calculate System Availability
Calculate Life-Cycle Costs
Individual Results (What Shall I Achieve)
Improve Reliability of System
Designs
Improve Design of Maintenance
Strategies
Improve Knowledge of Failure
Threads
Improve Focus on Critical System
Components
Provide Better Decision Making
Information to Managers
Organizational Impact (How
Can I Contribute)
Site Level Objectives
•Improved System Availability
•Improved Budgeting
•Improved OEE
•Lower Direct Maintenance Costs
BU Level Objectives
•More Consistent Performance
•Better Performance Predictability
Corporate Objectives
•Higher Margins

2. Learning Impact : Day 1 – Weibull
Analysis
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Knowledge (What Shall I Know)
History of Weibull
Weibull Parameters
How to Calculate Reliability using
Weibull Parameters
How to Determine Weibull
Parameters
How to measure Reliability
Growth
How to measure Process
Reliability
How to improve data gathering
for Weibull
Ability (What Shall I Practice)
Using Weibull parameters to
determine maintenance strategy
Calculating reliability with Weibull
parameters
Determining Weibull Parameters
manually
Determining Weibull Parameters
in Excel
Determining Weibull Parameters
using software
Determining cost of unreliability
Predicting number of failures
Individual Results (What Shall I Achieve)
Improve knowledge of failures
Improve maintenance decision
making
Improve Knowledge of Failure
Threads
Provide Better Decision Making
Information to Managers
Organizational Impact (How
Can I Contribute)
Site Level Objectives
•Improved System Availability
•Improved Budgeting
•Improved OEE
•Lower Direct Maintenance Costs
BU Level Objectives
•More Consistent Performance
•Better Performance Predictability
Corporate Objectives
•Higher Margins

3. Learning Impact : Day 2 – System
Modeling
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Knowledge (What Shall I Know)
When to use Availability
Modeling during the system
life cycle
How to build Reliability Block
Diagrams (RBDs)
How to calculate system
Reliability
How to calculate system
Availability
How to interpret & use
modeling results
Ability (What Shall I Practice)
Building RBDs
Calculating importance
rankings
Calculating system reliability
Calculating system availability
Using modeling output to
determine criticality
Using modeling output to
drive system improvements
Individual Results (What Shall I Achieve)
Improve knowledge of system
performance
Improve ability to improve
system design
Improve ability to improve
maintenance strategy design
Improved ability to determine
life-cycle costs
Organizational Impact (How
Can I Contribute)
Site Level Objectives
•Improved System Availability
•Improved Budgeting
•Improved OEE
•Lower Direct Maintenance Costs
BU Level Objectives
•More Consistent Performance
•Better Performance Predictability
Corporate Objectives
•Higher Margins