Reliability Engineering Policy

1. Prepare an outline of a reliability policy for your organisation showing the main headings and a 1 paragraph scope for each heading. If you use an existing policy, you are to comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the policy. Show how the reliability policy would link to other documents such as quality, production and maintenance policies and reliability manual.
2. Consider the reliability issues for elements such as water (surface and subsurface), seeds, natural fibres, energy, and food sources of all kinds. Discuss how a reliability policy could be relevant for their sustainable governance.
3. Conduct a literature review of current (under 5 years since publication) digital and hardcopy sources on reliability references from the library or other professionally reliable sources. Select 5 references and include a one-sentence comment why the reference is relevant to you.

However, for assignment purposes the simplified A4 landscape format as follows is acceptable. Item 1 should be the reference that you consider to be most important.

Prescribed and Recommended Textbooks

Title: Reliability Toolkit: Commercial Practices Edition

Author: Reliability Analysis Center

Publisher: RAC, Rome NY

Title: Practical Reliability Engineering

Author: O’Connor PDT

Publisher: Wiley

Edition/Year: 5th

Title: Reliability, Maintainability & Risk

Author: Smith DJ

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Edition/Year: 7th or 8th edition

As a reliability engineer, you should sift through the wide range of reliability requirements from different sources, and tailor the requirements you select to an understandable, logical, useful, and cost-effective asset management and reliability strategy. You are also encouraged to use other relevant texts, including those on line. Where assignment work includes company specific information, I will treat all such information as “company confidential”. It is important to be able to formally communicate your ideas through reports of various types, graphs etc.