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Awards Dinner
2008 Applied Reliability Symposium
June 19,
2008
in Reno, Nevada USA
At this year's
Applied Reliability Symposium in Reno, Nevada, the Awards Dinner
on Thursday night gave attendees the chance to mingle with
colleagues and cast their votes for the best presentations. We were pleased
to present Reliability Leadership Awards and Excellent
Presentations Awards, and to recognize two new Certified
Reliability Professionals.
Reliability Leadership Awards
We presented the Reliability
Leadership Award to two companies, Seagate Technology
and Delphi Thermal, in order to recognize their
efforts in the area of Design for Reliability. Both
companies understood the need for knowledgeable
engineers to drive the DFR process and implemented
corporate-wide training programs to accomplish this
goal.
In 2006, Seagate Technology partnered with
ReliaSoft to develop a customized, in-depth DFR training
curriculum, which has been rolled out globally to hundreds of
Seagate engineers as part of an overall corporate Business
Excellence strategy. The curriculum has been very well received
within Seagate, recently winning the award for "Best Training
Program or Strategy" at the 2007 Business Excellence Seminar in
San Francisco.
Delphi Thermal has always been a leader in the
advancement of reliability methods and has continually embraced
the DFR process to ensure product reliability. Part of their
overall effort includes the certification of a number of
engineers in various reliability methods, which will ensure that
the DFR process goes beyond ideas and becomes part of the "DNA"
of the product development cycle.
We would like to thank both companies for
setting examples of world-class DFR strategies for others to
follow.
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Congratulations to all of our 2008 ARS Excellent
Presentation Award Winners!
The winners were
selected by votes cast by attendees. The winners this year were:
Stefanie Hahn
(Gold) from Cessna Aircraft Company for her presentation,
Program Managing for Reliability During Development of Cessna
Citation Mustang
Jerry Roslund (Silver) from GLR Consulting for his
presentation, Using the Weibull Function to Validate Product
Life
Harland MacKenzie (Bronze) from Dana Corporation for
his presentation, The
Pitfalls of Accelerated Life Testing
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This Year's New Certified Reliability
Professionals
Congratulations to the two candidates who
achieved the CRP certification this year. To achieve this elite
level of reliability certification, candidates must gain, apply
and demonstrate unquestionable expertise in the field of
Reliability Engineering. CRPs are distinguished reliability
professionals, and this year there were two candidates who
successfully achieved the certification, Dan Farley of
Delphi Thermal and Greg Smith of Whirlpool. We were proud
to present them with their certifications, and congratulate them
for their achievement. To learn more about the CRP program,
click here.
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