Fundamentals of Reliability Maturity

By Fred Schenkelberg

December 9, 2025 / 9am Pacific Time

An organization working to create a reliable product or system is made up of people. This is important, as a group of people working together quickly forms a culture. Culture is the idea that there is a set of norms concerning how we do what we do.

Let’s explore how a group’s culture affects its ability to create a reliable product or system. It’s part how we talk about reliability, what tasks, and tests we do. Yet, it’s more about how we each make decisions.

We will also explore the five stages of reliability maturity and how you can determine your organization’s stage. Plus, a few notes on how to improve the reliability culture.

Visual Inspection and Sampling

By Aris Pena

December 2, 2025 /7-10am Pacific Time

$325

This course reviews the proper and safe procedures needed to obtain a representative sample of dielectric fluids. It covers personal protective equipment, special care transformers, visual inspection, gauges, nameplates, sampling containers, proper methods and techniques, packaging, and applying nitrogen.

The challenge of Functional Safety in Software Defined Vehicle (SdV) Architectures

By Andreas Schmid

December 3, 2025 / 4:30-5:45am Pacific Time

The technology trend in the automotive industry is the usage of High Performance Computers (HPCs) as a central or domain ECU to optimize the vehicle network. However, these new host systems are limited in their Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) capability (only up to ASIL B). The industry is now challenged to transfer traditional safety concepts into innovative solutions by decomposing the safety load. Only if this succeeds the full potential of high flexibility enabled by service-oriented architecture can be unlocked.

SdV represents a step-change in how safety and reliability are addressed in modern vehicles. For SaRS members, this webinar offers a unique opportunity to explore how a decomposed safety concept can support the need for high flexibility and fast time-to-market.

Advanced Dissolved Gas Analysis Workshop

By Jason Dennison

December 3, 2025 / 7-10am Pacific Time

$325

This live online course takes a deep dive into the importance of DGA, what industry standards state, how to use test interpretation tools, and how to apply the test results to increase the reliable life of the transformer.  The instructor and class will work through actual test results, apply the different interpretation tools to the data, then work together to make recommendations for solutions for corrective action(s) on the unit.  Attendees are encouraged to send along DGA test results from the transformers in their facility to use in this workshop.

Advanced Risk Mitigation using Design for Reliability (DfR)

By Dr. Julio Pulido

December 3, 2025 / 8:30-11:30am Pacific Time

$300

This training is designed for professionals who are implementing elements of a Design for Reliability (DfR) program within their organization. The session will focus on critical considerations when using risk mitigation tools such as DFMEA (Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) and DFMECA (Design Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis). Additionally, attendees will learn how to leverage Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) data to develop Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs) for system reliability and availability assessments. The training will feature real-world Data Center applications, covering both testing and reliability modeling.

Checklist Basics – A Key to Error Reduction

By Mark Galley

December 5, 2025 / 8am Pacific Time

Checklists are a simple yet frequently overlooked tool in a company’s daily operations. A checklist is a summary of how a task should be done. People naturally keep a lot of information in their heads about how to perform a particular task, but sometimes a little thing can be missed. A checklist can help reduce those errors because checklists don’t forget. This Webinar covers some checklist basics and shows how they’re used by different organizations to reduce risk.

Reliability in Solder Joints – From Experience to Prediction

By Jean-Baptiste Libot and Marjorie Leveneur

December 8, 2025 / 2:30-3:30pm Pacific Time

Advancing PCB and Assembly Testing at NPL

By Martin Wickham

December 9, 2025 / 6:30-7:30am Pacific Time

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) continues to lead innovation in test methods for printed circuit boards and electronic assemblies, supporting manufacturers and end-users across the electronics industry. In this webinar, Martin Wickham from NPL’s Electrical and Electronics Reliability Team will present recent advancements in testing capabilities, including:

• Enhanced condensation testing for evaluating moisture-related failure mechanisms and conformal coating performance.
• Expanded surface insulation resistance (SIR) measurement systems for high-sensitivity reliability assessments.
• Newly developed high-voltage AC testing for dielectric materials, enabling simulation of partial discharge and long-term degradation.

These developments are helping NPL’s partners improve product reliability and performance in demanding environments. Join us to explore how these cutting-edge methods are shaping the future of electronics testing.

Will Your Product Meet Its Life Requirement? CalceSARA can help!

By Michael Osterman

December 9, 2025 / 8am Pacific Time

Electronics have become ubiquitous in our society, with a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smartphones, personal computers, and wearable electronics. Additionally, safety systems such as fire alarms, toxic gas sensors, automatic vehicle braking systems, vehicle stability control systems, and engine control systems have made electronics essential for protecting people from potential injury or death.

This webinar will introduce the virtual qualification of electronic devices and the calceSARA Release 8.6.6. Various modules within the calceSARA software will be presented, along with examples of their applications.

Radiation Effects and Reliability in Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Power Devices

By Dr. Enxia Zhang

December 9, 2025 /4-6pm Pacific Time

Wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors such as GaN and SiC are revolutionizing power electronics for space, defense, and energy applications, but their behavior under radiation and extreme environments remains a key reliability challenge. This talk will explore how energetic particles and ionizing radiation affect the electrical performance and long-term stability of WBG power devices. By integrating multiscale defect modeling, electrothermal simulations, and experimental irradiation studies, we identify degradation pathways and propose design strategies for resilience. Case studies from NASA and DoD collaborations will highlight system-level implications for satellites, launch vehicles, and high-reliability power converters. The presentation concludes with future directions and educational efforts toward radiation-hardened power technologies.

Preventing Product Delays

By Michael Pfeifer

December 10, 2025 / 8am Pacific Time

These common problems increase the likelihood of product delays:

• Repeating product testing because of test failures
• Suppliers unable to provide stock materials and components that meet your specifications.
• Production processes that are unable to meet throughput and quality requirements.

These problems are often related to the materials in a product: selecting inadequate materials for components,  insufficient supplier evaluation, and manufacturing processes hurting the materials being processed.

A powerful approach to prevent delays is often overlooked – materials engineering.  This relatively simple approach can have a huge impact on sales and profits. It’s sometimes transformative.

Learn how to avoid risks to meeting product schedules by including materials engineering expertise during product development decisions.

Introduction to Repairable Systems Analysis and Modeling

By Dr. Andre Kleyner

December 19, 2025 / 8:30-11:30am Pacific Time

$300

A system is considered repairable if it can be restored to satisfactory operation by a repair action. One of the most important tasks of analyzing the repairable systems is to estimate the number of failures N(t) and make a prediction of the future number of failures in order to optimize maintenance strategies, obtain the necessary number of spare parts, estimate the cost of repairs and warranty. To achieve this requires a basic understanding of several key reliability and maintainability concepts and mathematical modeling approaches.

Quality Control in Manufacturing- Basics/Best Practices

By Michael W Gozzo

December 10, 2025 / 10-11:30am Pacific Time

$150

In today’s manufacturing environment the difference between success and mediocrity lies in the effectiveness of a quality management system!

You need to have a continuous improvement mentality – this will focus on systematic process approach and feedback for continuous improvement.

Quality Planning (MENTALITY) needs to be an essential/key piece in this puzzle to satisfy customers needs.

In addition, an enterprise needs to ensure the capabilities and processes are in place to ensure achievement of high quality levels. This requires the employment of practices coupled with controls and operators mentality making it happen.

Fighting Fatigue: Understanding Fatigue Risks in Healthcare and the Maritime Industry

By Laura Pickup and Will Tutton

December 11, 2025 / 4:30-6am Pacific Time

Fatigue is an insidious risk in all industries, one that is often misunderstood, undiagnosed and unregulated and is arguably the biggest performance shaping factor that affects safety and reliability in most industries, particularly those with time and commercial pressures allied to constraints on team resources. In this webinar the risks of fatigue will be explained, the challenges of managing these risks in healthcare and maritime and potential mitigating strategies will be unpacked. Healthcare and maritime, despite challenging work patterns, are often neglected sectors when talking about fatigue risks and share some common issues in the underpinning contribution of fatigue to safety.

This webinar will support safety professionals to understand fatigue risk in more depth, providing more information on the systemic and practical contributors, and provide insight into how fatigue risks can be pragmatically managed. It will also draw from the experience of other industries, specifically rail, who have systematically embedded fatigue management over the last 3 decades.

Asking Good Questions to Facilitate Better Collaboration and Enhance Relationships

By Christine M Anderson-Cook

December 11, 2025 / 8:30-9:30am Pacific time

I think most of us have an inherent sense that asking the right question in the right way at the right time can be critical to smooth-running teams and good collaborations. In this talk, I explore many different goals of question asking beyond the exchange of factual information or assessment. These include soliciting feedback, establishing rapport and inclusiveness, changing the flow of a discussion, and confirming the exchange of information. We benefit, and so do our colleagues. Understanding the diverse potential for how good questions can impact our collaborations makes us a better team member and a more sought-after colleague. Once the “why” has been considered, I will also present some strategies of “how” to pose questions to build an open and non-threatening environment. Details of the material are available in the JMP White Paper at www.jmp.com/asking-good-questions.

From Hazard Identification To Resolution And Certification: Ensuring Safety In LRT Systems

By James Li and Sana Akhtar

December 11, 2025 / 9am Pacific Time

Safety is crucial while developing either a simple product or complicated systems such as Light Rail Transit Systems. To ensure that safety is embedded in a product system, a hazard management process should be established throughout its life cycle. This begins with hazard identification, safety risk assessment, elimination, or mitigation for acceptance.

When a hazard or a combination of hazards is identified, each hazard is resolved by either eliminating the risk or mitigating the risk consistent with the principle of As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP). The resolution of hazards is closely tied to the Certification of Conformance process, where each certifiable element within the system is verified and validated to provide traceability between applied mitigations and the evidence that these hazards have been adequately controlled or closed.

This presentation illustrates the hazard resolution and certification process using an LRT system as a case study, to deem it safe for operations.

Using the Process Map to Lead a More Effective RCA Investigation

By Aaron Cross

December 12, 2025 / 8am Pacific Time

High reliability organizations (HRO) rely on highly reliable work processes. When a problem occurs, your investigation reveals opportunities to improve work processes. Unfortunately, many investigations fall short of this important connection with a simple explanation like “procedure needs improvement.” This explanation is NOT specific or effective at revealing actionable solutions to reduce risk. This webinar will show you how an effective investigation must focus on breakdowns in your work processes and how to use the process map as an effective tool to drive this critical discussion.

Human Error Prevention (HEP) – Risk Factors and Strategies

By John E Lincoln

December 15, 2025 / 9am-1pm Pacific Time

$595

Product Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique (HEART), used by NASA, is a technique used in the field of Human Reliability Assessment (HRA), for the purposes of evaluating the probability of a human error occurring throughout the completion of a specific task, and with the end result of Human Error Prevention (HEP; Use/Usability Engineering).

Measures can then be taken to reduce the likelihood of errors occurring within a system and therefore lead to improvement in safety. Used in conjunction with Device Risk Management and Use / Human Factors Engineering in device Design Control among other activities.

There exist three primary reasons for conducting an HRA: 

1. Error identification
2. Error quantification
3. 3Error reduction.

There can be a number of techniques used, split into one of two classifications: first-generation techniques, and second generation techniques. First generation techniques work on the basis of the simple dichotomy of ‘fits/doesn’t fit’ in the matching of the error situation in context with related error identification and quantification. Second generation techniques are more theory based in their assessment and quantification of errors.

Beyond the First Reading: Why Repeatability Matters in Shaft Alignment

By Terry C Southall

December 16, 2025 / 8am Pacific Time

Accurate shaft alignment is critical for maximizing machine performance and reliability, but a single measurement is rarely sufficient to ensure precision. Repeatability, the ability to consistently reproduce alignment results across multiple data readings, is fundamental to making informed maintenance decisions and achieving long-term success. This presentation delves into the importance of repeatability in shaft alignment, exploring how it impacts measurement confidence, alignment accuracy, and overall equipment health. Attendees will learn practical techniques for improving repeatability, common pitfalls to avoid, and how embracing repeatability drives better maintenance outcomes and cost savings.

Moreover, the presentation will highlight real-world examples demonstrating the consequences of neglecting repeatability, including costly misalignments and unnecessary machine downtime. It will also discuss how advancements in alignment technology and software have made achieving repeatable results easier and more accessible, empowering maintenance teams to implement reliable, standardized alignment protocols.

How Generative AI is Transforming Predictive Maintenance

By Tumay Karaver

December 18, 2025 / 7am Pacific Time

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how Artesis combines Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA), machine learning, digital twin models, and the latest Generative AI technologies to create a new level of diagnostic intelligence. This enables immediate, consistent, and expert-quality insights—without needing a specialist to manually evaluate every asset.

Learning Takeaways:

• How Generative AI acts as a 24/7 reliability engineer
• How ESA + ML + digital twin models produce automated fault indicators
• How LLMs convert diagnostic data into clear, actionable explanations
• The impact on downtime reduction, workforce efficiency, and scalability
• Real case examples and a live demonstration of the system in action

Investigating Workplace Injuries

By Aaron Cross

December 19, 2025 / 8am Pacific Time

This webinar demonstrates the use of the Cause Mapping method of root cause analysis to investigate workplace injuries. We’ll look at burns, contamination, slips/trips/falls and the most common, hand injuries, to better understand the factors influencing workplace injuries, how to effectively investigate these injuries, and how to reduce the number of injuries in the workplace.