Posted 4/20/2010
New Region Nine Reliability Division Councilor
Dick Coy has been appointed the new Region 9 Reliability Division Councilor. Region 9 covers most of Indiana and Kentucky as well as southwestern Ohio. You can contact Dick at: dickcoy@att.net .
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.
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).