Scope of Work

Objective:
The objective is to provide the services to perform the safety activities pertaining to reliability analysis viz., FMEA
(Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis), Reliability Prediction.

Responsibilities Outputs Skill set

Failure Mode Effects Analysis (Designed to identify Item / mode failure 1.Familiar in
potential failure modes for a product or process, to rates performing FMECA,
assess the risk associated with those failure modes, to Criticality Number FTA, RBD, FHA, SSA
rank the issues in terms of importance and to identify Risk level and Reliability
and carry out corrective actions to address the most Standard report format Prediction.
serious concerns) per specifications 2. Experience to Mil-
1. Defining the system, ground rules and Criticality matrices 1629, SAE ARP
assumptions to help drive the design. Risk levels standards, Mil-338
2. Identify failure modes (FMD-97, FMD-91 and Failure likelihood rank and Mil-882, Mil-217,
MIL-HDBK-338) Top (n) failure modes by etc.
3. Determine causes of the failure modes RPN 3. Expertise in
4. Analyze failure effects Failure modes and handling the Reliability
5. Classify the failure effects by severity (MIL-STD- effects summary tools, generating the
1629A) Top (n) failure modes by graphs and reports.
6. Perform criticality calculations mode criticality
7. Rank failure mode criticality and determine Action item list
highest risk items Failure mode cause
8. Take mitigation actions and document the Pareto
remaining risk with rationale
9. Follow-up on corrective action
implementation/effectiveness
10. Generate the reports and Criticality Matrix.
Fault Tree Analysis (Deductive analysis depicting a visual Cut set summation
path of failure and also displays the interrelationships Qualitative
between a critical system event and its causes) Quantitative
1. Identify the Hazard (top-level faults) Unreliability
2. Identify causes for top-level fault. Unavailability
3. Identify next level of events and root causes. Frequency of failures
4. Add probabilities to events. Cut sets
5. Generate reports and Cut Sets.
Reliability Prediction (Performed to verify that the chosen Failure Rate
architecture will achieve reliability goals to identify the MTBF
critical components for reliability and to evaluate the Reliability
effect of the operating conditions on the failure rate of Mission Profile Results
the components) Failure rate vs.
1. Analyze components to predict and calculate the operating temperature
rate at which a product or system will fail Failure rate vs.
2. Calculate failure rate and MTBF (Mean Time environment
Between Failures) (Based on Mil-217) Failure rate vs.
3. Prediction calculations are based on established, operating stress
globally accepted models Top (n) failure rate
4. Combine models within a single analysis contributors
5. Supports mission profile modeling, reliability Reliability vs. time
allocation methods, and the ability to model both Availability
active and dormant states
6. Supports derating analyses, user-defined parts,
quality levels, and environments