Hiring and Staffing the Right People
Mark A. Levin, Ted T. Kalal, Jonathan Rodin · 2019
This chapter presents a list of main characteristic skill set required for a candidate to work in a reliability lab. It focuses on whether the candidate has participated on shipping packaging design teams. Some stress testing is done to ensure that the product can be successfully shipped. A statistical tool that has gained acceptance is Weibull analysis. This is used to help identify field failure patterns. Degreed engineers can learn to use this tool, but having skills in statistics helps to get them going much quicker. Statistics can be used to demonstrate the reliability of the final product. Reliability budgeting allows early identification of high reliability risks. Reliability engineers interface with engineers of all kinds. For the software quality assurance (SQA) to be fully effective, there is some specialization required among the members of the staff. The SQA specialization is along two different vectors: infrastructure engineers versus testers and technological or use model domain expertise.