Prevalence of Reliability Engineering in Different Industries
Prevalence of Reliability Engineering in Different Industries
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I am wondering how much reliability engineering (or RAMS) is employed in the different industries.
I work in the automotive industry and reliability engineers seem to be a rare breed.
However in other sectors such as transport, process and aerospace (non-manufacturing sectors) there seems to be much more credit given to the reliability engineering profession and it appears to me to be more wide spread.
What are your experiences of the uptake and use of this profession in the various industries?
I work in the automotive industry and reliability engineers seem to be a rare breed.
However in other sectors such as transport, process and aerospace (non-manufacturing sectors) there seems to be much more credit given to the reliability engineering profession and it appears to me to be more wide spread.
What are your experiences of the uptake and use of this profession in the various industries?





RE: Prevalence of Reliability Engineering in Different Industries
Reliability is most specialized in companies that have government contracts. Reliability by itself is expensive and hard to fund. Therefore it gets lumped into the general engineering pool. That is to say the reliability is done by any engineer that needs it done.
That being said, most engineers know next to nothing about Reliability engineering and how much it can improve the product.
At Lockheed Martin on a $4B contract there were 4 of us on the primary contract and one at each of the subcontractors, 20, and 3 for the customer. So that makes about 27. Or about 1% of the total employees.
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SENTEK Engineering, LLC
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