Accendo Weekly Update #319
Trying an experiment today - using the Newsletter feature on Linkedin to broadcast what's new on Accendo Reliability this past week. The idea here is to provide you with a rundown of the published articles and episodes this past week.
Plus, we include a few other notes, as well. Now onto the content.
Random Notes
Received a request to share a note about an expert-roundup project Bryan Christiansen is conducting. The topic is CMMS implementation challenges and solutions. So, if you have something to say about this topic visit https://forms.gle/mCVR4jQSq1DNzgyx6. Bryan may feature you in his article series.
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Recently received a request for a suitable forum to ask questions concerning reliability engineering. We have tried opening a discussion forum on Accendo Reliability and didn't attract enough attention to make it useful. There are other communities that provide a great place to ask and answer questions. Which communities are your goto places? Where do you hang out online?
Stay safe, stay flexible, stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to be ‘confident,’ and what does this mean in the domain of reliability and quality?
Chris and Fred discuss how in spite of all the wonderful new techniques and technologies that are becoming available … we still need to focus almost all our effort on the basics.
James and Mark discuss HVAC systems.
This week’s episode Blair and Steve chat with Nanoprecise’s Sunil Vedula & Graham Kawulka from Nanoprecise.
Jeff Hay, PhD is the founder and CEO of RDI Technologies. He is the inventor and visionary behind Motion Amplification? and the Iris M?, which allows you to amplify and measure motion with the use of video.
Doug Plucknette interviews Drew, who brings nearly 30 years experience and thought leadership in the fields of manufacturing reliability engineering and physical asset management.
Mike and Miles talk about profiling an oven and a wave soldering machine, and how, when?done correctly, may reduce the number of times one has to attach thermocouples to a circuit board and run it through an oven or wave soldering machine.
When we’re looking at results?(like measures of a characteristic),?we need to take care not to get too hung-up on what the statistics?are trying to tell us.
Larry and Ryan discuss a hot topic in today’s world: the disruption in our global supply chain.
Tim interviews?Doug Plucknette a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and RCM Blitz?.
Recorded 26 October 2021 / Chris Jackson
Once we have made something really reliable (or really available) … then comes the part where we have to work out how many of them we need (if they make up a fleet) or how many spare parts we need to keep them running. That is where discrete distributions are really helpful.
Recorded 9 November 2021 / Fred Schenkelberg
Other than the situation where you build your product inside your customer’s facility, your product will require some form of transportation to move from your factory to your customer. When your product doesn’t work ‘out of box’, that is considered, ‘not good’ for customer satisfaction.
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
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Scheduled for December 14, 2021, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Fred Schenkelberg
We tell and listen to stories all the time. Anecdotes, encounters, best practices, near misses, memories, etc. We also influence the way we interpret the world around us via the stories we tell ourselves. Plus, we often work to alter the stories others have in their head, as we work to improve reliability.
Stores are a powerful way to convey information in a memorable manner. People remember stories (maybe not the details, yet the gist or point) whereas they quickly forget a table of facts. So, how do you go about telling a memorable story about a Weibull plot of field data? Or, a mean cumulative plot of a repairable system?
Let’s explore the practice of storytelling when in the role of a reliability engineer or manager. Plus, let’s examine a few methods to become an impactful storyteller.
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Reliability Engineering essays and tutorials
Short essays and tutorials for your weekly professional reading. Did you know there are over 1,800 articles published to date? Comment or ask questions thus joining the discussion. If you have an idea for an article or would like to contribute articles,?let's talk.
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Efficiency of 99.995 … 1915
by Karl Burnett
The?Street Railway Journal, later renamed the?Electric Railway Journal?was published from 1884 until 1931.??The first 1884 volume described the reason for the journal’s existence, to serve the streetcar industry better than journals focusing on heavy rail.??Most commonly, In 1884 it was most common for horses to pull street cars on fixed rails.??...[Read more…]
by Andrew Kelleher
The term “reliability improvement journey” is well-established in the chemical process industry. The decade-long, tortuous journey of one company is shown in terms of operational availability (i.e., production) and relative maintenance cost at Figure 1.?
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by Doug Lehr
Failure?Simulation?has confirmed all root causes in the Storm Packer failure analysis. The focus is now on mitigations that prevent them from occurring again.
Mitigations are controls that prevent failures or reduce their probability of occurring.?Ideally, an OEM implements mitigations to the product through Design for Reliability (DfR) activities before commercialization.??...[Read more…]
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by Robert (Bob) J. Latino
We often hear our organizations referring to their workforce as their greatest ‘asset’. But are they really?
Let’s first define?‘asset’?from a financial perspective:
“In financial accounting, an asset is an economic resource. ..."?
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by James Kovacevic
Ensure Your Precision Alignment Program Is On The Right Foot.
Imagine (or maybe you don’t have to) that you take out your brand new Easy-Laser system, and proceed to perform a shaft alignment.?However, it seems that no matter what you do, you can’t get a great alignment.?What is going on???...[Read more…]
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by James Reyes-Picknell
Proactive maintenance requires fewer people and is more suited to physical distancing, yet cost-savings measures are driving more reactive work and workplace crowding than necessary. Proactive maintenance is more “Covid”. You have laid-off workers, contractors, and reduced spending on maintenance and parts.??...[Read more…]
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by Andrew Sheves (editor Greg Hutchins)
In David McKee’s book for children ‘Not Now Bernard’, a young boy tries to warn his parents about a monster in the yard, but they’re too busy to pay attention. All they say is ‘not now Bernard’ and ignore him. In the end, the monster eats Bernard and moves into the house, but his parents are still too busy to notice.??...[Read more…]
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by Nancy Regan
There’s a big difference between MTBF and Useful Life. The two values are often misunderstood and misapplied when assigning Preventive Maintenance task intervals. In this video, I’ll explain which one is used to assign intervals for Scheduled Replacement and Scheduled Restoration tasks. We’ll also discuss Operating Context and how that can affect Manufacturer Recommended Maintenance. This is an “edutainment” video.???...[Read more…]
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by George Williams and Joe Anderson
George Williams, CEO of ReliabilityX, explains what an Asset Management System is. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to share them in the comments below. We would love to answer them.
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by Steven Wachs
Many statistical tests and procedures assume that data follows a normal (bell-shaped) distribution.
For example, all of the following statistical tests, statistics, or methods assume that data is normally distributed:
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?If you would like to contribute an article or series of articles on reliability, maintenance, or related topics, let's talk. The intent is to have many voices writing here. If you're interested in publishing your work via Accendo Reliability, let's [email protected]
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3 年On the article front, we have dozens of active authors and are quickly approaching 2,500 articles posted - plenty to explore. This is in part thanks to this weeks authors: Karl Burnett, Andrew Kelleher, Doug Lehr, Robert (Bob) Latino, James Kovacevic, MMP CMRP CAMA, James Reyes-Picknell, Greg Hutchins PE CERM, Nancy Regan, George Williams CRL, CMRP, Joe Anderson, and Steven Wachs
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3 年We're approaching two million downloads (of four of the shows which we host directly) - give a listen to one or more of the podcasts in the Reliability.FM podcast network. Listen to Christopher Jackson, James Kovacevic, MMP CMRP CAMA, Blair Fraser, Steven Dobie, P.Eng,Doug Plucknette Mike Konrad Dianna Deeney and/or Ryan Chan, CMRP