About

Mission

The mission of the Reliability Division (a professional association) is:

• to provide a forum for networking among members on reliability engineering, management and related topics,
• to facilitate R & M engineering growth and development of division members,
• to promote reliability engineering principles and to serve as a focal resource on reliability engineering for ASQ, Standards agencies, industry, commerce, government, and academia;
• to manage the body of knowledge of Reliability Engineering pursuant to Certification, and to career advancement within the profession, and among state PE Departments, and
• to sponsor and present reliability, maintainability, and related training materials for courses, symposia, and conferences.

Vision

RD member career professional development needs will be a major consideration in strategic planning. The RD leadership will strive to advance the profession by applying resources to

• facilitate effective exchange of ideas leading to timely refinement of principles and practices;
• evaluation of and dissemination of improvements in tools, methods and practices.

We will endeavor to earn recognition as the leading information resource in the profession of reliability engineering, including related fields of maintainability and dependability.

Plan

Grow the Reliability Division by focusing on areas which will be of interest to commercial industry i.e. product reliability, maintainability, aspects of human factors, safety, logistics, and related costs.

Partner with other organizations in seeking solutions to reliability issues deserving of mutual interest.

Strive to optimize use of all available communications tools for our membership and those outside the organization in accessing published information concerning reliability, dependability, and maintainability.

Proactively solicit networking with non-traditional personnel who have an interest in reliability, dependability, and maintainability such as Maintenance Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers and Product Design Engineers.

Be a leader in the development of standards in the field and in publicizing the availability of those standards.

Develop simplified reliability tools for use by personnel who are not reliability engineers.

Promote the Certified Reliability Engineer certification as the accepted standard for qualification to do reliability engineering. Investigate jointly with other interested organization’s leadership possible options for Reliability Engineer Certification of their members (non-members of ASQ or ASQ-RD).

2011 GOALS:

Prepare and deliver short courses with ASQ China. Increase number of active members with meaningful projects that serve RD members.

Support local ASQ sponsored conferences, section meetings, and discussion groups.

Identify, encourage, support RC activities to include section meeting support, local conference support, new member calling program.

Draft and distribute quarterly newsletter on division news, plus the quarterly technical journal, Reliability Review.

Develop and maintain best paper awards program for ASQ RD member authors ($1000).

Starting Q1 2011 transition technical articles to ASQ's™ Quality Engineer and end run of RR.

Working with ASQ Learning Institute develop, promote and support set of course and events related   to the CRE BOK and associated training.

Develop and produce monthly hour long webinars based on CRE BOK and related topics at low cost open to members and non-members.

Three face to face meetings (FTC, RAMS, and WQCI), plus as needed Webex meetings. ASQ RD funds elected members attendance, if needed.