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Vol. 49, No. 2, April 2003 (ISSN 1059-8642)
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C O N T E N T SPresident’s Message
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Editor’s Column2
Chapter Activities3
AdCom Meeting Minutes4
Educational Activities Update9
Standards News9
Meeting Notics11
Technical Magazine Section13
Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions onDevice and Materials Reliability
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Editor:Dave Franklin
Associate Editor:John Healy
Business Manager:Bob Gauger
President’s MessageDear Reliability Society Colleagues:In this message, I wish to update you on the “State of the Society” sincemy last message in January.
As I stated in the last message, our Society is doing everything pos-sible to reduce costs and generate additional revenue. This situation isnot unique to us, but is being required of all societiesby the IEEE Institute. So far, I am pleased to announcethat in 2004, we expect, given the current budget pro-jections that we have turned into the Institute, to end2004 with approximately $100K in surplus. That is ahuge change from the loss of approximately $250Kthat we suffered in 2002. Also, we are working withMatt Loeb at IEEE Headquarters on formulating a newinitiative that offers better access to electronic infor-mation related to the fields of reliability and security. Iffunded, this initiative will allow the Reliability Societyto offer technical information to members andnon-members, even if IEEE does not own the copyright to that infor-mation. This is a new business model for IEEE, and our Society will bethe first Society to try this “virtual shopping mall” model out.
The benefit of attempting such a project is three-fold: (1) All costs in-curred to build this virtual mall are covered by the Institute and not our So-ciety, (2) It allows our Society to broaden its scope from being viewed as anarrowly focused organization on reliability to being viewed as a societythat also has offerings in the security arena, and (3) It offers our Society theopportunity to create a new product line without having to go through theusual process of getting new publications approved or creating new con-ferences. In short, while there is no guarantee that this model will boostour revenue, I am pleased that our Society will be the first one to offer thisspecific product line in this form of delivery.
Other news that I’d like share with you is that our next ADCOM meetingwill be in late July in Manchester, New Hampshire. We will hold anEXCOM meeting on Friday the 24th, our ADCOM meeting will be on Sat-urday the 25th, and our Chapters Congress will be on Sunday the 26th. I havepersonally invited two guests to the ADCOM meeting, Matt Loeb, fromIEEE Headquarters, and Jack Burns. Jack Burns attended our ADCOMmeeting (approximately a year ago) to discuss the formation of a new IEEEsociety devoted to product safety. Lastweek in Nashville at theTABcaucus,the Product Safety Society was officially voted into existence, and Jack willbe attending to request that one member of our ADCOM sit on the interimBoard of Directors of this newly formed IEEE society. While some in ourSociety may feel that this new society is a competitor of the Reliability Soci-ety, I believe thatwecan synergistically work together to benefit both partiesvia joint offerings, conferences, and joint membership discounts.
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Reliability Society
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PresidentJeff Voas ([email protected])
Vice President - MembershipA. N. Campbell ([email protected])
Vice President - PublicationsDr. Christian Hansen ([email protected])
Vice President - MeetingsDr. Ann Miller ([email protected])
Vice President - Technical OperationsWilliam R. Tonti ([email protected])
SecretarySam Kleene ([email protected])
TreasurerR. A. Kowalski ([email protected])
STANDING COMMITTEES
Standards and DefinitionsT. Brogan ([email protected])Y. Lord ([email protected])
Meetings OrganizationJohn Healy ([email protected])
General MembershipA. N. Campbell ([email protected])
ChaptersL. Arellano ([email protected])
Academic Education CommitteeM. Abramo ([email protected])
Professional DevelopmentM. Abramo ([email protected])
Constitution and BylawsK. P. LaSala ([email protected])
Nominations and AwardsK. P. LaSala ([email protected])
FellowsT. L. Regulinski ([email protected])
FinanceR. A. Kowalski ([email protected])
HistorianA. Plait ([email protected])
Academic EducationDr. Robert J. Loomis, Jr ([email protected])
TECHNICAL OPERATIONS
Vice PresidentWilliam R. Tonti ([email protected])
Technology Committees(12 committees)AD/CAEJanasak ([email protected])
Human Interface TechnologyK. P. La Sala ([email protected])
International ReliabilityJoseph R Fragola ([email protected])
Mechanical ReliabilityR. L. Doyle ([email protected])
Microelectronic TechnologiesAlan Street ([email protected])T. A. Rost ([email protected])
Reliability DesignM. Roush ([email protected])
Reliability MethodologyC. K. Hansen ([email protected])
System SafetyTakehisa Kohda ([email protected]~u.ac.jp)
Software ReliabilityS. J. Keene ([email protected])Ann Miller ([email protected]
Standards & DefinitionsY. Lord ([email protected]. L. Brogan ([email protected]
Testing & ScreeningH. A. Chan ([email protected])
WarrantyVacant
Systems Committees (8 committees)
Aerospace & Defense SystemsD. L. Franklin ([email protected])
Automotive SystemsC. Aladekugbe([email protected])B. Dodson ([email protected])
Consumer ElectronicsF. Shenkelberg ([email protected])
Energy SystemsM. Lively ([email protected])
Industrial SystemsH. Yajima ([email protected])
Information Technology &CommunicationsJ. Healy ([email protected])
Medical SystemsVacant
Sensor SystemsK. P. La Sala ([email protected])
From the EditorWe want to hear from you, please submityour articles, comments or question byemail if possible. Thanks,
Dave Franklin Editor
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President’s Message Continued
In closing, I’d like to leave you with alittle information concerning the demo-graphics of our Society. This is informa-tion that IEEE is tracking across allsocieties more vigorously as IEEE at-tempts to get a better feel as to who joinsIEEE and its societies and why they doso. As you may know, IEEE membershiphas been on a slow decline, and thereforethe Institute is attempting to attract newmembers, create new product lines, newpricing models, etc. And to do so, accu-
rate demographic information is very im-portant to achieve those goals.
According to the Institute (as of March27, 2003), we have 2,196 members of allgrades. (That number is a little low sincesome folks are slow to get their annual re-newals turned in.) The average age of amember of our Society is 49.8 years of age.62.1% of all members are in the UnitedStates, and 11.4% of our members are lifemembers and 8.8% are senior members.Student members are only 4.8%, whichclearly provides an opportunity for growth.
Most of our members stay with our Societyfor a long time: 16.9 years. 28% of ourmembers belong only to the Reliability So-ciety, 29.1% belong to two societies, and16.1% belong to 3 societies. And 9% of ourmembers belong to more than 6 societies.(I have no idea when they find the time toread all of that mail they must receive.)We are 92.3% male, 6.6% female, and1.1% unidentified.
Have a terrific summer ’03!Jeffrey Voas
President
BaltimoreWalter E Willing
BinghamtonJefferson D Bronfeld
BostonThe Boston Chapter held three meet-ings since our last report in January’sNewsletter.
In February, Professor Nasser Fard ofNortheastern University presented hiswork in the area of “Reliability Evalua-tion of Multistage Interconnection Net-works (MINs).” MINs are one class ofinterconnection networks that can sup-port large-scale parallelism by connect-ing input devices to output devicesthrough a number of switch stages,where each switch is a crossbar network.The number of stages and the connec-tion patterns between stages determinethe routing capabilities of the networks.Professor Fard reviewed the differenttypes of MINs, discussed several ap-proaches for evaluating their reliability,and proposed ways of making themmore reliable.
In March, Victor Avelar of AmericanPower Conversion (APC) gave a talk on“Understanding Reliability and Avail-ability.” An overview of the high reli-ability/availability industry through theeyes of an uninterruptible power supplymanufacturer was provided. The basicelements behind reliability and avail-ability, including the analysis method-ology employed by APC’s Availability
Science Center, were discussed. Victorconcluded his presentation by describ-ing practical data center imperativesand design practices.
In April, we held a Spring Lecture Se-ries on “Design for Reliability (DfR) –Confidently.” During the first lecture,Dana Crowe of M/A-Com (Tyco Elec-tronics) discussed the bridge betweenDfR and Six Sigma, focusing on acceler-ating business goals and improving cus-tomer communications. During thesecond and third lectures, Joe Dzekevichof Raytheon and Gene Bridgers of Syca-more Networks discussed the applicationof statistical confidence to a wide rangeof DfR tasks. They used many practicalexamples to illustrate both good and badimplementations, and demonstrated sev-eral software tools.
For more information on BostonChapter activities, please visit our website at http://www.channel1.com/users/ieee/home.html.
Jeff Clark, Avici SystemsBoston Chapter Chair
Central New EnglandSee Boston Chapter activities.
Jeffery A Clark
ChicagoFrank D Straka
Cleveland ChapterThe Cleveland Chapter had four meet-ings in this period.
PAST MEETINGS
For the October meeting, Jeff Haas, Chiefof the Research Testing Division and along-time member of the SupervisorsClub, presented a summary of the Engi-neering and Technical Services Director-ate realignment. E&TSD (7000) is theorganization that most of the current Su-pervisors Club members reside in. It isalso the organization that a large numberof the retired members worked in duringtheir careers. Jeff provided the back-ground of why the Directorate was goingthrough reorganization, presented a com-parison of the old organizational struc-ture to the new one, and finished thepresentation with a summary of key is-sues that the Directorate will be dealingwith over the next several years.
Our November meeting presentation,“Behind the Scenes of Local TelevisionNews,” was given by CSU Communica-tion Professor Michael Rand. Surveys in-dicate more than 80 percent of Americansnow rely on local television news as theirprimary source of news. But, not many ofus actually know how decisions are madeas to what we see and who are the peoplewho make those choices, unless you at-tended this meeting. Prof. Rand, whoproduced newscasts in Cleveland andKansas City and TV magazine shows inTampa, Dayton and Richmond, ex-plained who the players are and how de-cisions are made. What often appears asbias is merely incompetence according toProf. Rand. He also showed a video pro-duced by CSU students about directingtelevision newscasts. The video was from
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We had two activities in December:On Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002, the Supervi-sors’Club took a tour of the new Browns’Stadium in downtown Cleveland. Wewere given a guided tour through one ofthe two Club seating areas, a loge, thepress box and one of the two visitors’locker rooms. Several of us ventured onto the playing field just to see the viewfrom there. This is probably the one andonly chance most of us will ever have tovisit any of these areas! After the tour wewere served lunch of either hamburgersor chicken breasts. The entire affair lastedfor about 2.5 hours. We are planning asecond tour in the spring. This may be tothe new Indians’ Stadium or possibly asurprise destination- Bob Fowler, Tours.
Vince Conrad and Ernie Bertone orga-nized the “Mid Year Social.” Bob Manlyacted as host. The winter social was lightlyattended this year, perhaps due to the coldwinter weather and the many snow birdsin the Club. However, those who did makeit to the Guerin House were in joyous Hol-iday Spirit and enjoyed the food, drink andcamaraderie of those present. The festivegroup came just shy of breaking intoChristmas carols.
CHAPTER ACTIVITIESWe are supporting ’04 RAMS on the
Management Committee, with papers,tutorials, and session suggestions. TheChapter Officers are all working to makeit a big success.
We are working to get support for theCleveland AUTOTESTCON ConferenceCommittee from the Cleveland Engineer-ing Center; WPAFB, FAA in Cleveland,and Cleveland State University. TheChapter would like to bring a major Con-ference to Cleveland.
The Assurance Technology Sympo-sium will be held at the Ohio Aerospace In-stitute in June 2003. There will be 24presentations, 20 exhibits, and splintermeetings in the two and one half day sym-posium. An award for the best presentationand exhibit will be given. This symposiumprovides the Safety and Mission Assurance(SMA) community and Project personnelwith a unique opportunity for interchangeand interaction on innovative assurancetechnologies and tools. It promotes dialog
and cooperation with the Projects, Centers,and the SMA community.
Overall, here in Cleveland we are hav-ing fun staying active and trying to servethe needs of our members.
Regards,Vincent Lalli, Chair
Cincinnati Chapter
Dallas ChapterDonald Butler
IEEE Dallas Section [email protected]
Denver/Pikes PeakSamuel J Keene
Japan ChapterThe Japan Chapter established a newsteering committee on 1 January 2003.The committee members are:
� T. Inagaki, Professor, University ofTsukuba (Chair)
� K. Suzuki, Professor, University ofElectro-Communications (ViceChair)
� K. Suyama, Associate Professor,Tokyo Univ. of Mercantile Marine(Secretary)
� T. Shimokawa, Professor, TokyoMetropolitan Institute of Technol-ogy (Treasurer).
� The help of the following two advi-sory members are also available:
� Y. Sato, Professor, Tokyo Univ. ofMercantile Marine (Jr. Past Chair)
� S. Fukuda, Professor, Tokyo Metro-politan Institute of Technology (Sr.Past Chair).
Although the members are inside aca-demia, each of them has close contactswith people in industries. The committeeis now drawing up plans that can be use-ful and beneficial for them as well as uni-versity students.
Let me tell you one of my research con-cerns. My deepest interest lies in reliabil-ity and safety of human-machine systems.Ironically, high reliability of smart ma-chines has sometimes degraded safety ofhuman-machine systems: Operatorsplaced too much trust in their smart ma-chines, and became complacent. There arevarious factors that may lead to inappro-priate trust in machines. Designing safety
of human-machine systems is challengingin “the age of smart machines.”
When I was Vice Chair of the JapanChapter, I tried to introduce safety relatedaspects into activities of this Chapter. Iorganized two symposia:
(a) Human Intelligence and MachineIntelligence – Their Confrontations andCollaborations in an Emergency (De-cember 13, 2001), and
(b) Risk Perception and Legal Re-sponsibilities (December 20, 2002).
In the first symposium, by taking anear-miss incident occurred over Japan in2001, we investigated present state of af-fairs in the air. Dr. Ozeki, researcher ofTCAS at the Electronic Navigation Re-search Institute, Capt. Tsukahara of the Ja-pan Air System, and Mr. Kawano, aformer Air Traffic Controller (ATC), de-livered lectures from their viewpoints, anda panel discussion followed. Many pilots,accident investigators, and aviation re-searchers attended the symposium, as wellas reliability and safety engineers in in-dustries. The discussion session with au-dience came to an end an hour later thanthe originally scheduled closing time.
In the second symposium, we had threelectures. Dr. Mikami, Professor of psychol-ogy at Toho University talked about difficul-ties and biases in human risk perception indisastrous situations. Capt. Nishimura of AllNippon Airways described risk-based deci-sion-making and safety control maneuver incritical situations. Dr. Ikeda, Professor ofcriminal law at Tokai University explainedthe fault liability principle and the principleof liability without fault. Researchers andengineers in various industries including air-lines, automobile and nuclear power plantsattended the symposium. The symposiumseemed to be successful in demonstratingthe need for a new system of law that cantake into account psychological aspects ofhuman, characteristics of large technologi-cal systems, and their complex interactions.
I would like to express his sincerethanks to Miss Megumi Komata at theSecretariat of IEEE Tokyo Section for hergreat support, including prompt deliver-ing email announcements to members ofthe Japan Chapter. Without her help, itwould be hard to make chapter activitiesbeneficial and enjoyable.
Toshiyuki Inagaki, ChairJapan Chapter
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Los Angeles ChapterScott Tamashiro
Twin Cities
Minnesota ChapterJames McLinnChapter Chair
Mohawk ValleyVacant
North-Central-SothernItaly
Fausto Fantini
OttowaCecelia Jankowski
Managing DirectorRegional Activities
Philadelphia ChapterFulvio E. Oliveto, Chairperson
Philadelphia Section(856) 914-7298
Santa Clara ValleyAfter being dormant for a few years, theSanta Clara Valley Chapter began havingchapter meetings in 2002. Presentationswere made on reliability best practices,IEEE 1413 reliability prediction guide,accelerated testing, software reliability,and monitoring IC degradation.
Our 2003 meetings began with paneldiscussions on conference papers. InJanuary we had a panel discussion ofpapers from the 28th International Sym-posium for Testing and Failure Analy-sis (ISTFA) led by Art Rawers and DonStaab. In February Fred Schenkelbergcoordinated a panel discussion of pa-pers from RAMS. At our March meet-ing , Jon Ele ra th wi l l make apresentation on disk drive reliability.We have scheduled future meetings onreliability activities throughout theproduct life cycle, design for testability,soft errors, and life-cycle cost models.
For more information on Santa ClaraValley Chapter activities, please visit ourweb page at http://www.ieee.org/scv/rs.
Alan Wood
Santa Clara Valley Chapter [email protected]
San Diego ChapterChapter Chairman:Michael V. Frank
[email protected]. Doyle, Secretary
Singapore Chapter(ED/Reliability/CPMT Joint Chapter)
Dr. M.K. RadhakrishnanChapter Chair, IEEE Rel/CPMT/ED
Chapter, Singaporee-mail : [email protected]
South PlainsMichael E Parten
SwitzerlandMauro Ciappa
Switzerland Chapter Chair
TorontoWalter W Zessner
Washington DC,No VAKenneth P La Sala
ADCOM MeetingIEEE Reliability SocietyAdCom AgendaTampa FloridaJanuary 25-26, 2003
AttendeesSam Keene, Jeff Voas, Lon Chase, MartyShooman, Ted Freeman, Bob Gauger,Bill Tonti, Loretta Arellano, RichardKowalski, Ken LaSala, Dennis Hoffman,John Healy, Bob Loomis, Dick Doyle,Shuichi Fukuda, Scott Abrams, ChristianHansen, Alan Street, Ann Campbell,Marsha Abramo, Dave Franklin, JoeFragola, Takehisa Kohda.
Call to Order - D. HoffmanIntroduce new AdCom members
and new officers - D. Hoffman, andAdCom Appointment Concurrence - J.Voas. The agenda and the October min-utes were approved and reviewed foraction items.
October minutes approved with thecondition that the pubs submittal wascompleted (done).
The chief mandate of this meeting wasto develop revenue and cost objectivesthat would allow RS to break even finan-cially by 2004. This goal was achievedthrough several initiatives, especiallythose brought forth by Ann Campbell andBob Loomis. Collectively, these initia-tives were:
1. The number of AdCom meetingswill be reduced to 3 in 2003 (January,March and July) - <17K savings> Analternative: 2 meetings per year .
2. Eliminate the annual Tech Ops meet-ing and replace with monthlyteleconferences <6K savings>
3. Investigate eliminating the annualEditors meeting <6K savings>
4. Marsha will investigate the return of50% of TSM revenues and whether
this will continue if RS unbundlestheir publication
5. Increase dues to $30/year was ap-proved
6. Unbundled publications. Put news-letter on web page, TREL accessiblevia IEEE Explore F. Possibly printhard copies for those withoutInternet access. Christian will inves-tigate.
7. Unbundle RAMS and IRPS pro-ceedings
8. Increase the transactions page countby 16 pages publishing more articlesand letting them run longer .
9. Offer a public class in software reli-ability in September/October in Seat-tle. Ann M to put together with techops review. Jeff will contactMicrosoft to support the course. JohnH will proof read course material.
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This budget will be presented to theIEEE Fincom in February and will be for-mally presented to the IEEE on May 2003.
This Newsletter needs more technicalcontent. All Tech Ops chairs should submita technical article due March 1. The news-letter should advantageously move to lookmore like a magazine in its contents. Thenewsletter could have links to stories and tovender ads and their web pages.
Managing Editor positionRalph Evans Managing Editor’s Contractwill be extended one more time for twoyears ending December 2004. Christianwill initiate a search committee, char-tered to identify a replacement for Ralph,who has served the Reliability Society insuch a distinguished fashion for manyyears now. Bob Loomis will serve on thatcommittee also. It was suggested to askRalph to participate also since he knowsthe job best. The committee needs to de-velop selection criteria immediately. Thepublication of the transactions shouldmove to electronic delivery and take ad-vantage of the latest desktop publishingtechnology.
Meetings:Friday March 28 Excom in Dallas, Satur-day March 29 Adcom Dallas
Friday July 25 Excom New England,Saturday July 26 AdCom New England,A Chapters Congress will be held in con-junction with the July AdCom meetingSunday July
AdCom approved RS support of re-ciprocal advertising space for ReliabilitySociety booth at EOSED (Las Vegas) andISSRE (Dallas). Marsha will representRS at the PACE meeting in Seattle March27-29, 2003. Subject is “building skillsfor technical principles and managers”.
Video MarketingSam Keene will explore marketing RStapes through various vendors and alsopursue Anthony Chan’s offer to provideRS with a course he teaches in Statisticsand Decision Analysis.
Short course direction1. Could tailgate on conferences2. Package entire product line (all vid-
eos, multiple dates, multiple offer-ings, multiple locations)
3. 2 to 3 days is best duration for maxi-mizing return over cost
Open Questions1. Should RS consider a new name
(branding change)?2. Should RS participate with the Com-
puter Society on the new transactionson “Dependability”?
3. The newsletter could have embeddedabstracts and active links to full sto-ries if it were delivered on line. Ad-vertisers could also have links totheir web pages.
4. We would need paper copies of transac-tions for libraries and the APP.
5. Should RS start its own conferenceand own it totally?
6. How do we handle receipts? Creditcard purchases?
Savings SummaryUnbundled Transactions and newsletter$70K, Unbundled RAMS and IRPS27.5K, 16 Extra pages of Rel Transac-tions 22K, Eliminate 1 AdCom Meetingper year 17K, Eliminate Editors and TechOps meetings 8.5K for a Total of $145K.
The meeting was adjourned.
IEEE Reliability SocietyAdCom AgendaMarch 29, 2003Approval of TAMPA’03 Minutes (SamKeene)
President’s Report – TAB Update(Jeff Voas)
� Proposed Product Safety Society� Outcome of fincom presentation� $22.5K vs. $11 page count discus-
sion for ’04� Board of Governors decision on
long investments (Bears vs. Bulls)� Subsequent discussions with Com-
munications Society, Computer So-ciety (Trans. On Dependability withCarl Chang and Willis King), Divi-sion XIII Director, Jim Isackk, etc.)
� Joint Society Grand Challenge forDARPA
� Competitive bids for conferences� DoD 30-40K seminar on software
reliability� Problem with the current Fellow
Nomination Process?Special HQ Guest
� How to get HQ to help us start newinitiatives (Matt Loeb)
Treasurer’s Report (Dick Kowalski)� Finals from 2002� Current spreadsheet projections for
’03 post TAMPA’03� Initial Budgeting for ‘04
VP Meetings Report� End of year EXCOM meeting dis-
cussion? Need one?� Conference Closeouts (Ann Miller)� Overall success of RAMS’03
(open)� Action Item Updates (Ann Miller)� ITS Council (Ted Freeman)� IRPS’03 Preview (Ann Campbell or
Bill Tonti)� Need for a letter from VP Pubs to fi-
nancially sponsored conferences re-questing proof of surplus?
VP TechOps Report� Action Item Updates (Bill Tonti)� ATR (Bill Tonti or Christian
Hansen)VP Publications Report
� Updates TBD (Christian Hansen)� Action Item Updates (Christian
Hansen)� Ralph Evans (Christian Hansen)� Newsletter (Dave Franklin)� Transactions (Way Kuo)
VP Membership Report� Updates TBD (Ann Campbell)
New Motions:� Limiting travel reimbursement re-
quests motionSr. Past Pres. Report (Ken LaSala)
� Content TBDJr. Past Pres. Report (Dennis Hoffman)
� Content TBDChapters Congress Update (LorettaArellano)
New/Old Business (Revenue Genera-tion and Cost Savings)
� Val Monshaw’s suggestions for ad-ditional cost/revenue savings
� Generating a computer/securityoffering
� Creating new ad hoc exploratorycommittees focused on specifictypes of revenue generation
� Acceptable approaches to fundingnew initiatives with a negative ’03budget projection, given IEEE rulesfor tapping your surplus
TechOps
William R. Tonti VP
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Please Respond
WANTED— Short Courses orTutorials in our Fields of InterestHave you ever thought of presenting ashort course or tutorial that is related toreliability, safety, fault tolerance, testing,or other approaches to quality throughthe auspices of your Reliability Society?Presently the Society is looking for ex-perts in these fields who are willing to de-velop such material, or already have it attheir disposal. The Society plans to offereducational seminars where you wouldpresent your material under our auspices.We are seeking education training mate-rials for all levels of attendee expertise,and our target audiences for these coursesranges from highly technical personnel tosenior and mid-level managers. We willcover your expenses and a stipend if yourtutorial is accepted and successfully mar-keted. Please send your ideas to the VP ofTechnical Operations, William Tonti, [email protected]. Bill will act upon eachresponse received.
The IEEE Reliability Societywould like to sponsor and promoteyour conference:
Do you know of a conference the Reli-ability Society should sponsor based ei-ther on your knowledge as a conferenceattendee, or as a member of the confer-ence technical or management commit-tees? The Reliability Society is interestedin partnering with the organizations thatorganize and sponsor the conferencesthat you support, and we are also lookingat financing new conferences that youmay want to organize but not have the re-sources to kick-start. We want to be syn-ergistic with all of our members who havemany diverse areas of reliability-relatedexpertise, and thus play a role in the confer-ences, meetings and workshops that meetyour professional and educational needsworldwide. As you are already aware, thesociety’s technical expertise can be catego-rized by the following Reliability Areas,but is not limited to only these.
Standards and Definitions� Software Reliability� Industrial Systems� Reliability Design� Information Technology & Com-
munications
� CAD, Concurrent Engineering, andExpert Systems
� Computers, Information Systems,& Telecommunications
� Emerging (New) Technologies� Energy Systems Reliability & En-
ergy Technology Assessments� MicroElectronic Technologies� Medical Systems� Human Interface Technology� International Reliability� Maintainability� Consumer Electronics� Aerospace & Defense Systems� Reliability� Mechanical Reliability� Nuclear Reliability� Quality Assurance Technology� Warranty� Systems Screening and Testing� System safety� Sensors� Total Quality Management (TQM)
& Process Reliability� Vehicular Technology & Transpor-
tation SystemsHowever we are aware that the tech-
nology space is an ever expanding andadapting arena, and we want to ensurethat our offerings that relate to meetings,conferences, seminars, and workshopsare continuing to keep up to that trend.
If we sparked an interest, please sendan email to the IEEE Reliability SocietyMeetings Vice President, Ann Miller [email protected].
Relex 7.6 Raises the Baron Modeling ProductReliabilityGreensburg, PA, February 14, 2003 —-Relex Software Corporation, the world-wide leader in reliability analysis soft-ware, today announced the generalavailability of Version 7.6 of the RelexReliability Software Suite, a comprehen-sive collection of analysis tools for evalu-ating and improving product reliability.In addition to introducing two new reli-ability prediction standards and provid-ing numerous other enhancements to itsmany software modules, Relex 7.6 offersa brand new System Optimization andSimulation (OpSim) module for model-ing very complex, real-life maintenancescenarios.
“With Relex OpSim, you can providecorrective, preventive, and inspectionmaintenance information, sparing datafor both onsite and offsite componentspares, and repair data for failed compo-nents fixed at a repair shop,” said KevinVan Fleet, Vice President of Relex Soft-ware Corporation. “Because RelexOpSim includes the concepts of capacity,age adjustments for standby and sparecomponents, renewal percentages for im-perfect repair, and discard, repair, and re-placement percentages, our users canstrengthen their existing system analysesand determine how best to improve reli-ability and availability while minimizingdowntime and total costs.”
Based on parameters that can eveninclude transportation times, storageand transportation costs, and replenish-ment levels for spares, Relex OpSim isable to calculate the optimal number ofonsite and offsite spares for each sys-tem component. According to certifiedreliability engineers at Relex SoftwareCorporation, Relex OpSim is the onlyadvanced modeling tool that calculatesresults and performs optimizations fornot only a specified point in time butalso for the steady state. While compet-ing tools always use simulation tomodel system performance, RelexOpSim uses the provided componentdata to determine whether to use analyt-ical analysis or simulation.
When Relex OpSim is used to opti-mize the number of onsite and offsitespares, you can either select the tradi-tional goal of minimizing total systemcost or choose instead to maximize reli-ability, mean availability, or mean capac-ity. In addition to providing these severaldifferent goals for spares optimizations,Relex OpSim is unique in that it supportsadditional constraints upon the selectedgoal. For example, you can specify amaximum available budget and a mini-mum desired capacity, availability, andmean capacity to be factored into thespares optimization process.
“Relex OpSim also provides for opti-mizing preventive and inspection mainte-nance intervals, regardless as to whethermaintenance plans are based on calendardays or operating times,” said Van Fleet.“The goal for an interval optimizationcan either be to minimize total system
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cost or maximize system availability.Specified system constraints are also fac-tored into interval optimizations.” Addi-tional Relex OpSim features include theability to define common spares pools,repair resources, repair teams, and alter-native repair resources, such as inde-pendent contractors who can performmaintenance tasks when primary repairresources are not available. “The newRelex OpSim module allows our custom-ers to effectively and realistically modelvery complex system maintenance activi-ties,” added Van Fleet. “Customers wholack confidence in their own ability to setup such complex maintenance modelsthemselves can turn to Relex OpSim con-sulting services for expert advice.”
Enhancements to the Relex ReliabilityPrediction module include the incorpora-
tion of the 299B Parts Count model andthe RDF 2000 model. The 299B PartsCount method is a companion to the299B Parts Stress method for the ChineseStandard GJB/z299B. RDF 2000 is anewer version of the CNET 93 standard.It uses cycling profiles and their applica-ble phases to provide a completely differ-ent basis for failure rate calculations.Additionally, the Relex PRISM reliabil-ity calculation model now supports theupdated Process Grades files in version1.4 of RAC PRISM, a product of the Reli-ability Analysis Center (RAC).
Additionally, enhancements weremade to the Relex RBD and RelexFMEA/FMECA modules. In RelexRBD, an improved interface for enteringRBD figure calculation properties wasimplemented to ease data entry, and the
Monte Carlo simulation engine was mod-ified to improve calculation perfor-mance. In Relex FMEA/FMECA,support was added for both RACFMD-97 and HAZOP (Hazard andOperability) data. Supplied by the Reli-ability Analysis Center, FMD-97 dataspecifies component failure modes andthe percentages of time that these modesare responsible for a failure. HAZOP is amethod for identifying potential hazardsand operability problems caused by devi-ations from the design intent of both newand existing processes.
For more information on Relex Soft-ware Corporation, an IS0 9001-certi-f i ed and Tick IT 2000-ce r t i f i edcompany, call 724.836.8800 or visitwww.relexsoftware.com.
ASTR 2003The IEEE /CPMT Accelerated StressTesting & Reliability (ASTR) 2003 Com-mittee invites you to plan ahead and con-sidering participating in the 2003 ASTRWorkshop to be held Oct. 1-3, 2003 at theSeattle Hilton.
If you are interested in preparing andpresenting a paper and/or tutorial pleasecontact one of the committee membersidentified below.
Over the last few years, AcceleratedStress Testing (AST) has been embracedby an ever-widening array of worldwidecompanies seeking to reconcile the needfor the highest quality product with thenecessary push for early time-to-market.The purpose of the AST Workshop is to
share ideas on better ways of acceleratingand detecting hidden defects, flaws, andweaknesses in electronic and electro-me-chanical hardware that would result infailures during usage. These techniquesare focused on testing electronic hard-ware to destruction limits and root causeinvestigation to determine the phys-ics-of-failure. The goal of AST is to pro-duce mature products at marketintroduction and, in making it robust; theproduct can be screened for manufactur-ing defects with high combined stresses(beyond end-use specifications) forshorter lengths of time.
TUTORIALS: The all day tutorialprogram will be held on the first day ofthe Workshop and features well-re-
spected experts sharing their experiencesand hard-learned lessons. Two parallelsessions, Basic AST and Advanced ASTSubjects, will ensure that experiencedpractitioners as well as those who are justentering the field will find useful and in-teresting presentations.
TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Thetwo-day workshop program will presentnew and innovative Accelerated StressTesting techniques in use today. Pastworkshops featured speakers discussingtheir accomplishments in providing ac-celerated reliability testing for a widerange of products as well as failure analy-sis techniques and data analysis.
General Chairman, Mark Gibbel,NASA/JPL [email protected]
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