Reliability Engineering

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Bracke studied mechanical engineering at the University of Bochum and received his doctorate in the field of quality assurance within product recycling. After working at Porsche AG and the Technical University of Cologne, he has been Professor of Reliability Engineering and Risk Analytics at the University of Wuppertal since 2010. Furthermore, he accepted a guest professorship at Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan, in 2016. The focus of his research and teaching is on reliability and risk analytics in the development, manufacture and field use of technical products.

• Technical reliability and product emergence process.- Elementary terms.- Descriptive statistics: forms of visulization.- Probability and random experiments.- Data collection and first analysis steps.- Distribution models and functions.- Distribution models: parameter estimation.- Confidence intervals.- Correlation and regression.- System Analysis: Function, Fault Tree and Failure Mode and Effects.- Analysis of the failure behaviour of components, assemblies, systems.- Significance tests.- Prototype Testing and Accelerated Testing.- Test process suitability.- Statistical Process Control (SPC).