Build It Right: Quality-Driven Component and Material Choices

In Build It Right: Quality-Driven Component and Material Choices, you'll learn ...

• The principles of ISO 9001 risk-based thinking and their application to engineering component and material selection
• The integration of risk identification, evaluation, mitigation, and documentation into quality-driven engineering decisions
• The use of structured risk assessment tools to improve reliability, safety, compliance, and lifecycle performance
• How to develop traceable and defensible engineering decisions that support quality management and continuous improvement

Overview

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Credit: 1 CPD

Length: 24 pages

In this course you'll learn how to apply ISO 9001 risk-based thinking to component and material selection decisions. The course emphasizes proactive quality management by integrating risk identification, analysis, mitigation, and documentation into engineering design processes.

Participants will learn how to evaluate functional, reliability, safety, compliance, supply chain, environmental, and lifecycle risks associated with engineering choices across electrical, mechanical, civil, and environmental disciplines. The course introduces practical tools such as risk matrices, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Risk Priority Numbers (RPNs), risk registers, and weighted decision matrices to support defensible engineering decisions.

Engineers will learn how to assess both qualitative and quantitative risks, prioritize mitigation efforts, and select materials or components that balance performance, reliability, safety, cost, and long-term sustainability. The course also explores risk treatment strategies including avoidance, mitigation, transfer, and acceptance, while emphasizing the importance of documentation and traceability for ISO 9001 compliance and professional due diligence.

Through multidisciplinary examples and practical case studies, participants will gain the skills needed to make informed, quality-driven engineering decisions that improve project outcomes and support continuous improvement.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• The role of risk-based thinking in proactive engineering quality management
• The identification of functional, reliability, safety, compliance, supply chain, environmental, and lifecycle risks
• The application of risk matrices to evaluate likelihood, consequence, and overall risk levels
• The differences between qualitative and quantitative approaches to engineering risk analysis
• The development and interpretation of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Risk Priority Numbers (RPNs)
• The use of weighted decision matrices to compare component and material alternatives
• The implementation of risk treatment strategies including avoidance, mitigation, transfer, and acceptance
• The documentation of risk assessments using risk registers, design reviews, technical memos, and design logs
• The incorporation of risk controls into specifications, plans, and procurement requirements
• How to apply risk-based selection methods across electrical, mechanical, civil, and environmental engineering projects

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.