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.

Vision

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).

2001 GOALS:

Develop project partnerships for co-sponsoring conferences, workshops, and seminars with the Automotive Division and Bio-Medical Division within the ASQ and the National Association of Manufacturers outside the ASQ.

Plan at least one regional conference for 2001.

Contact other organizations with similar interests concerning partnerships for co-sponsoring events, eg. IEEE, SAE, IIE, SRE, etc.

Encourage more monographs on topics of wide interest to be written and printed. Goal is the publication of two new monographs per year. Develop an improved distribution system. Investigate having headquarters distribute.

Continue to publish the Reliability Review as the prime technical communications vehicle of the division. Investigate the feasibility of an electronically delivered newsletter to supplement the technical journal.

Continue to support programming at RAMS, but work to increase the emphasis on commercial reliability issues. Continue to support programming at the ASQ AQC.

Keep the Reliability Division on a sound financial basis by keeping expenses within income. Adjust expenses if income is not on plan.

Develop and maintain an improved speakers list and encourage sections to present programs on current reliability, dependability, maintainability issues. Focus on metropolitan sections with larger memberships or multi section meetings within a region. Provide their leadership with a carefully selected listing of topics by speakers within their geographic region.

Regional councilors to assist sections with program development encouraging a reliability topic for at least one meeting per year in each region.

Motivate more active support by members and employ an active members list to spread the load.

Recognize achievement in the Reliability Division and the Reliability and Maintenance community.