Nat Ozarin

Explore new tools for failure modes and effects analysis of system interconnection designs

Low-tech  hazards  can  cause  catastrophic  results  in  safety-critical  and  other
systems.  Designers sometimes fail to give adequate consideration to hazards in low-tech areas such
as electrical interconnection designs, particularly when different design teams develop the
subsystems on opposite ends of the inter- connections.  Even when traditional interconnection
analysis is performed, the process is tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming.

Fortunately, new kinds of analyses and new approaches to existing analyses can be used to assess
safety of interconnection designs, and all analyses can be  automated  to  provide  a  very  high 
degree  of  thoroughness  and  accuracy while minimizing human effort and error.  Automation can
also identify failure modes normally ignored during manual analysis.   Use of an automated soft-
ware  tool  will  be  demonstrated  to  show  its  potential  benefits  for  FMEA  and hazard
analysis.

Biography:

OUR SPEAKER: Nat Ozarin is a senior engineering consultant at Omnicon (www.omnicongroup.com), a subsid-iary of HBM Prenscia Inc.  Omnicon specializes in reliability and safety analysis for the military, medical, industrial, and transportation industries.  His background
includes hardware engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, programming, and reliability engineering.  He received a BSEE from Lehigh University, an MSEE from Polytechnic University of New York, and an MBA from Long Island University.  He is an IEEE member and was named Reliability Engineer of the Year by the IEEE Reliability Society in 2009.