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Table of
Content
Front
page:
President's
Message
From the Editor
Messages from VPs:
VP Publications Report from Dr. Robert Loomis
Society
News:
2011 EXCOM and ADCOM Members
Prestigious Engineer of the Year Award
Best Chapter Awards
AdCom Meeting
Nominations for IEEE Medals and Recognitions
RS seeks Administrative Committee Candidates for 2012/2013/2014 Term
Reliability Society Past AdCom Members Obituaries:
Former RS President Monshaw Dies At 84
Obituary for Ann Miller
Feature Articles:
Reliability through the
Ages
Reliability Overview of Air Traffic Reliability in the National Air Space
Regular Articles:
Field Based Reliability Calculations (MTBF) – Surmounting Practical Challenges. An outside the box approach.
Applying basic and familiar reliability theory to estimating and improving the avialablity of software-intensive systems
Fault Tolerance in Web Services
PHM Articles:
Detection of Multiple Failure-Modes in Electronics using Self-Organized Mapping
Book Review :
Reliability Engineering Book Review
Chapter Activities:
Cleveland Chapter
Taipei/Tainan Chapter
The Denver Chapter awarded a certificate to Hobbs Engineering
Announcements:
Solicitation for Society Technical Committees
UK&RI Workshop on Reliability and Safety
WCEAM-IMS 2001
Links:
Reliability Society Home
RS
Newsletter Homepage
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The Denver Chapter awarded a certificate to Hobbs Engineering
In December, The Denver Chapter awarded a certificate to Hobbs Engineering for their continuing support of the Denver chapter and their meritorious advancements in Reliability engineering.
Hobbs Engineering was established in 1978 by Dr. Gregg K. Hobbs, who holds 14 patents for various inventions that test the durability of product design. Over the past 30 years,
he has gathered a select group of specialists in the various aspects of Accelerated Reliability, who provide training seminars for companies as varied as Boeing, Johnson & Johnson,
Raytheon, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, John Deere, Airbus, Otis Elevator, Cadillac, and all branches of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Dr. Hobbs invented and continues to enhance HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Tests) and HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screens). These techniques use severe conditions (including vibration,
freezing and extreme heating) to test for weaknesses in design. The breakdowns and parts failures that will occur after several years in average conditions, happen in a matter of minutes or even seconds using HALT and HASS,
so designers and manufacturers can find problems and fix them quickly.
Dr Hobbs passed away in November 2010, but his company still carries on his mantle.
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