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NW US Forum To Collaborate On Product Reliability

A NinaTek product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Aug 13, 2003

The purpose of the Northwest Reliability Forum is to facilitate a cross-industry discussion with various manufacturers, discover new approaches, and to explore new and emerging techniques and ideas.

Reliability, Design, and Quality Engineers representing leading Northwest manufacturers and academics form the Northwest Reliability Forum Committee to develop a series of product lifecycle focused forums.

The purpose of the Northwest Reliability Forum is to facilitate a cross-industry discussion with various manufacturers, to discover new approaches, and to explore new and emerging techniques and ideas.

The goal is to hold the forums on a regular basis, and cover a range of topics focusing on product reliability as it relates to the following categories: - Design - Theory - Analysis - Product management A sampling of forum topics most requested include: real life examples of new product reliability programs, such as how to measure and quantify lifecycle costs; accelerated testing; effective ways of looking at large amounts of product data; design and cost analysis related to reliability implementation; and how to accurately determine warranty costs.

The forums will be hosted at rotating committee member sites.

Members to-date include representatives from HP, Xerox, Tektronix, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Portland State University, Engineering Design Consultants, and NinaTek.

Quarterly forums will be scheduled, with the next forums to be held in September and January.

The committee is currently in process of lining up speakers.

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