Objectives

The objectives of this training are to enable participants to acquire:

• Knowledge, reflexes and attitudes for taking dependability activities into account at the appropriate level for an industrial project.
• The means to specify at the right level and with the required precision the requirements for dependability results and demonstration to be met on projects.
• The ability to analyze, evaluate, criticize and validate industrial deliverables regarding dependability.

Program

Introduction

• Why a Dependability Study
• Concepts and definitions: RAMST - Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety, Testability
• Risk Concepts
• Main Reliability Laws

Dependability Activities in the product life cycle

• Allocation of objectives
• Dependability approach and management
• Links with project management

Detailed methods

• Qualitative methods (PHA, FMEA, HAZOP, Zonal Analysis)
• Quantitative methods (Reliability Block Diagrams, Fault Tree Analysis, Event Tree Analysis, Concepts of Markov Graphs and Petri Nets, ...)
• Links with functional analysis

Dependability document review guide

Application to practical case studies

• Description of subsystems or products
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis (Failure Rates, MTBF, Repair Rates, ...)
• Means of obtaining data: Databases, Validity checks

Quantification Methods

• Synthesis of used methods and obtained results
• Comments on difficulties and current limitations (addressing Software dependability and human factors

This training is illustrated with concrete and real examples applied to the main dependability methods used (PHA, FMEA, Fault Trees, Markov Chains, ...).

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