The various responsibilities ofReliability engineerare:-

• One of the most important responsibilities of Reliability engineer is that he has towork in coordination with other Project engineersso as to ensure reliability, maintainability, availability, parts control, obsolescence management, configuration control etc of new product designs as well as improved designs of old products.

• He has to takeactive participation in developing reliable designs and installation and STW( setting to work) planning. He then accordingly plans and formulate the reliability evaluation process and acceptance test/inspection standards.

• He has to takeactive participation in the final field checks of the Participates in the final check out of the freshly commissioned products. This includes Factory acceptance tests and site acceptance tests. He will observe whether the product is meeting its specification standards or not.

• He has tomonitor all the reliability related aspects of the product, quality control by keeping the production processes intact, the utility and safety standards.
  
• He has tomake a professional and systematic approach for defining, designing, developing, monitoring and refining the product’s maintenance planand its support for the defined life.

• He has toevaluate the re-occurring failures, identify its cause and give timely suggestionsfor improving the product’s reliability. This can be done by using :

— Root cause analysis (RCA) and Root cause Failure analysis (RCFA)

— Data evaluation methods like Weibull Tree analysis, Fault tree analysis, Six sigma analysis, Reliability modeling etc. Data evaluation tools are available online also. You only have to fill the required data for getting the result.

— Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

• He has to toprovide valuable suggestions in repair / replacement, repair / design modification, and manufacture / outsourcingof few components of the product.
  

The responsibilities ofReliability engineeris not limited to the above mentioned jobs only. There are many more. You have to keep this in mind that a Reliability engineer is a very crucial person of a production house and his call of duty is not confined to a single place or event.