Accendo Weekly Update #325
With Host Gabor Szabo
Thought exchange on experiences, lessons from the past, and trends towards the future of the quality profession.
Excited about what the future holds for the quality profession, I created Critical Talks with the goal of sharing my excitement and providing value to the community by bringing up and discussing relevant and engaging topics. Podcast, video content, and more.
Happy to have the show Critical Talks as part of the?Reliability.FM?podcast network.
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Random Notes
Remember to check out the?Top Ten Books?- updated last week - based on sales rank in Amazon.
The RAMS conference is this week - live and in person only - if attending, stay safe, travel well, and let us know how it goes.
Chris Jackson is back with a new webinar,?What is Statistical Process Control or SPC??- should be a good one.
Looking ahead for courses, confernces, webinar, etc as you sort out your professional development plan? Check out the?Calendar?for hundreds of options.
Stay safe, stay flexible, stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
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Carl and Fred discuss the value of questioning in the process of learning and personal growth.
Carl and Fred have a new conversation about the age-old topic of key characteristics, and how they are used to improve products and processes.
James welcomes Daus Studenberg, laser alignment instructor and national product manager with Ludeca.
In this episode we discuss how to build a training program, when it is appropriate to provide training, the importance of internal training, and how to value training so it doesn’t get cut.
Dianna talks about the importance of spending time with the customer.
In this episode, host Akshay Athalye talks about why he wanted to start this podcast and how he intends to help others learn about Reliability and de-mystify common misconceptions.
Thomas Wilk is the award-winning chief editor of Plant Services, a Putman Media publication that focuses on smart solutions for maintenance and reliability.
Sabor and Keith discuss the role of the quality function and what skillset and mindset quality practitioners need to have to navigate the future.
Mike and Joel discuss the benefits of solder paste inspection as well as automated optical inspection and how implementation of these technologies can provide higher degrees of assembly optimization, efficiency, and reliability.
In this episode of the Women in Maintenance Podcast, we have the CEO of Empowering Brands, Charli K Matthews, on the show.
Recorded 11 January 2022 / Fred Schenkelberg
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Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
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Scheduled for February 8, 2022, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Fred Schenkelberg
You may fondly, or most likely not fondly, your undergraduate course on probability and statistics. The calculations of various winning hands with card games was interesting and connected to the early ‘invention’ of probability and statistical methods, yet the jar with colored beads was rather boring.
From drive time to upload speeds, from production output per hour to defects per unit, we are surrounded by things and processes that vary. With most things, there is many factors at play contributing to variations. It is those variations and the means to discuss them in a meaningful way that is the essence of statistics.
Let’s explore the many ways we use, or should use, statistics in our engineering role. From gathering data to presenting, from analyzing to comparing, we have a wide range of tools available that ‘probably’ (pun intended) will have a ‘significant’ (did it again) impact on your ability to make a difference with what you do.
Scheduled for February 22, 2022, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
You may have heard of Statistical Process Control (SPC), 6-sigma, Shewhart, the Japanese Economic Miracle, X? – R Charts … or perhaps none of them. So if you have heard of these things (and are confused by them) or if you are involved in ‘processes’ (especially manufacturing) then this webinar might help you out. SPC can help you work out if your process (whatever that might be) is ‘behaving.’ Which means it isn’t doing anything that YOU don’t EXPECT. And to know what to EXPECT you need to UNDERSTAND your process. So even if your process starts of doing what you WANT – if you don’t UNDERSTAND it then it won’t be long before it meanders outside your definition of what is ‘good.’
GThe heart of SPC start with finding out the precise moment your process starts behaving UNEXPECTEDLY. Which hopefully gives you plenty of stress free time to come up with really clever solutions well before you create batch upon batch of defective component (or something similar). This webinar gives you an introduction into SPC, which hopefully makes you want to learn more in the future.
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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.
Reduce data entry time and costly errors while boosting productivity by integrating your facilities management software with barcoding technology. Many vendors are offering this technology for facility maintenance software as an included feature or add-on to improve the timeliness and accuracy of data input in their CMMS/EAM systems.??...[Read more…]
When facilitating a Root Cause Analysis (RCA), the proper questioning process will make or break the effectiveness of the entire analysis. When we hear of the 5-Why’s as a valid RCA approach, is simply asking ‘Why?’ 5x good enough….or IS IT JUST OK?
Think about it this way, if I asked you ‘How Could’ the crime have occurred versus ‘Why’ the crime occurred, would your answers be different????...[Read more…]
Data is good.?Quality data is better.?“Big data” is even fashionable.?But it won’t help you solve a “small data” problem.
Let me guess.?The quality of your CMMS data is not great, but if it was, you could really do something with it.?Since decades, in fact.?Just need to re-tweak those failure codes!??...[Read more…]
Effective communication is the one thing that makes your life better, more fulfilling, and more rewarding. That is equally true in personal relationships and in business.
Keep it simple. If you can convey the same information in fewer words, do it. If you can use fewer sentences, use fewer.??...[Read more…]
Many people have a few smoke alarms dotted around their house and, to me, these are some of the most straightforward set-it-and-forget-it risk management tools you can get. You set these up and then…nothing. You can forget about them until that annoying ‘chirp’ sound wakes you up one night, telling you to change the battery. ...[Read more…]
The one thing is right under your nose. The one thing is the game changer for your career because it enables others to understand the complex and uncertain world where you work. The one thing requires understanding the outcomes you seek before optimizing the separate components.??...[Read more…]
The prime role of Maintenance is to reduce operating risk. Maintenance serves a business well when its use leads to lower production costs than using other choices that could have been taken. Too many managers think that they must maintain plant and equipment. Maybe you do and maybe you don’t. Maintenance is expensive and, as far as it is safe, use less costly answers.??...[Read more…]
Get it right on paper before attempting to computerize and automate.
The Work Management Process.?One of the biggest uses of IIoT, ML, and AI in the industry (so far) is in the field of condition monitoring and forecasting times to failure. IIoT devices deployed on your equipment and systems, send exception signals (they use edge computing to filter out the vast majority of the data that merely tells you “all is well”) over some sort of network...??[Read more…]
In the last blog, we discussed why?Self-Awareness?is the starting point for any real change. If you aren’t able to honestly know where you are, you’ll never get on the proper path towards where you want to go. The next step in making forward progress is understanding how you got to where you are.
This is where self-accountability comes into the conversation.??...[Read more…]
The title was inspired by Rupert Miller’s report “What Price Kaplan Meier?” That report compares?nonparametric vs. parametric reliability estimators?from censored age-at-failure data. This article compares?alternative, nonparametric estimators?from different data:?grouped, censored age-at-failure data vs. population ships and returns data required by generally accepted accounting principles. This article compares data storage and collection requirements and costs, and bias, precision, and information of nonparametric reliability estimators.??...[Read more…]
The first and most important aptitude needed to move from a maker mentality to a management or leadership mentality is that of a lifelong learner.
Now, I’ve heard plenty of people say, “I learn something new every day.” And it’s a cute adage. But watching the History Channel or scrolling mindlessly through YouTube videos won’t likely produce a leadership mindset.??...[Read more…]
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