The prime objective of Product Assurance (PA) should be to ensure that products accomplish their defined mission objectives in a safe, available and reliable way. ##### The early identification of aspects potentially detrimental for safety and mission success, and the cost-effective prevention of any adverse consequence of such aspects are the basic principles for the Product Assurance requirements. ##### Product Assurance Management ensures the integration of activities from the Product Assurance disciplines defined in the other standards, namely: (a) Quality assurance; (b) Dependability; (c) Safety; (d) Electrical, electronic, electromechanical (EEE) components; (e) Materials, mechanical parts and processes; (f) Software product assurance. ##### The requirements for Product Assurance planning should address the following aspects: (a) Definition of a Product Assurance organization with the allocation of adequate resources, personnel and facilities; (b) Definition of Product Assurance requirements for lower tier suppliers; (c) Definition of a Product Assurance Plan describing the Product Assurance programme and how it fulfils project objectives and requirements . ##### The requirements for Product Assurance programme implementation should address the following aspects: (a) Management and control of the PA tasks performed by the PA disciplines; (b) Progress reporting of all Product Assurance matters; (c) Management of audits, critical items, non-conformances and alerts; (d) Support to the risk management, in coordination with the Project Management functions; (e) Support to the documentation and data control, quality records and to configuration management
Hilaire Ananda Perera has 39 Years of North American experience in Reliability/Maintainability/Safety Engineering https: //www.linkedin.com/in/hilaireperera/ - 2007 - Present: Reliability/Maintainability/Safety Consulting Engineer at Long Term Quality Assurance (LTQA), Markham, Ontario - 1983 - 2007: Reliability/Maintainability/Safety Engineer at Honeywell Aerospace, Mississauga, Ontario - 1981 - 1983: Reliability/Maintainability Engineer, Philips Electronics Ltd., Telecommunications Division, Scarborough, Ontario - 1977 - 1980: Design/Reliability Engineer, DAF Indal Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario - 1973 - 1976: Design Engineer, Stackpole Machinary Co., Scarborough, Ontario # Bachelor of Science Production Engineering (1972), University of Aston, Birmingham, England # Professional Engineer (P.Eng) 1976 to Present - Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario # Certified (1983 - 2007) Reliability Engineer - American Society for Quality # Honeywell Six Sigma Plus Green Belt Certified (2001), Honeywell Design For Six Sigma Certified (2003) # Allied-Signal Aerospace 1997 Growth Award. As a Senior Engineer applied mature engineering knowledge in planning and conducting reliability engineering and related product assurance projects. Emphasized the fact that reliability is the time-based concept of quality and reliability design is an iterative process that begins with specification of reliability goals consistent with cost and performance objectives. Introduced new approaches to achieve high product reliability. Performed to satisfy internal and external customers. Developed awareness of reliability within the organization. Served as a technical adviser on reliability issues. Assisted management in using reliability information to make. decisions for profitability. PUBLISHED PAPERS: ** Outgoing Reliability Assurance Using Chance Defective Exponential Model, AMMJ Mar 2015 ** An Introduction of Statistical Confidence Levels, AMMJ Sep 2014 ** Product Assurance Capability Quantified, Reliability Analysis Center (2Q2004) ** Adaptive ESS, Allied Signal Aerospace Company Technical Exchange Conference 25-26SEP1991 ** Optimum Cost Maintenance, Machine Design 20Jun1985 ** Reliability of Mechanical Parts, Machine Design 10Sep1987
