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According to a survey conducted by The American Machinist, CEOs of leading companies ranked Reliability and Uptime as the No. 1 criteria influencing the buying decisions in the Machine Tool Industry.

Performance excellence in terms of Reliability of physical assets, people, and business/ technical processes is a major contributor to an organisation's competitive advantage. Reliability is simply the antithesis of failure, which in today's business context is the inability of any product or service to meet a level of performance expected by the customer.

Customers expressly or intuitively perceive the products and services used by them in terms of quality , cost and cycle time . There is increasing evidence that world-class companies are using company wide structured methodologies and tools to bring about change in current working and put into place reliable assets and processes.

The 5-step reliability path
Establish Reliability / Availability goal as inherent to a system.
Assess Reliability potential from various analytical techniques.

Estimate Reliability from tests and databases.

Measure reliability by expending full life at device, sub-process level if needed.

Recommend and implement practices for protecting system Reliability throughout useful life.
Two key outcomes of Reliability implementation are

Quantitative assessment of System level, Sub-system, Component's likelihood of failure.

Structured, cost effective assurance of an acceptable level of Reliability in system use.

At Kaul Associates , we bring to your organisation an information and knowledge based Reliability approach through a structured and disciplined methodology to – Assess , Plan , Implement and Assure Reliability, much on the lines of the SIX SIGMA approach but adapted to serve needs of the system reliability scenario. Technically feasible and economically rewarding tasks to successfully manage uncertainties of complex reliability situations will be implemented through a goal setting and team approach.

   

Our services encompass

System Reliability Modeling – analyzing using applicable Models, Simulation

Process Reliability Mapping
Risk Analysis
Hazard Analysis
Reliability History, data analysis – Company data, Industry wide data
Process / System / Subsystem Design Reviews
Reliability Program Planning – System Goal setting and Apportionment.
Life Cycle Cost Analysis.
Failure Modes Effects Analysis, Fault Tree Analysis
Functional Robustness Testing, Reviews.
Diagnostic Parameters Identification.
Parameterization, P-Diagram and Critical Parameter Layout Analysis.
Empirical and Analytical Test Design, Execution, Analysis.
Manufacturing / Assembly Process Reliability Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Human Reliability Analysis
Design and Operational Reliability Training.
Reliability Growth / Demo testing
Warranty Plan development

Reliability Centered Maintenance Analysis – Maintenance Technology, Strategy and Reliability assurance Task selection.

Supplier evaluation / selection.

Failure Reporting Info System, Analysis, Corrective Action System implementation