Accendo Weekly Update #339
A podcast network
Now with over 2 million downloads
Learn the tools of the trade. Master when and why to employ techniques. Meet industry thought leaders.
This self-paced, online course (on the Udemy system) includes instructor support for any of your questions.
Announcements & Reminders
This week we went go over 2 million podcast downloads and are just shy of welcoming our 6 thousandth member.
Thanks for being a part of the Accendo Reliability adventure - reading, listening, viewing, sharing, etc.
If you have a question, comment, or suggestion - we, and I mean all the contributors with Accendo Reliability, would enjoy hearing from you and will attempt to provide a meaningful and useful response.
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
PS: The counts of downloads and site visits are not the important metric - it's the engagement in our ongoing conversation about reliability engineering - comments, questions, and contributions are the elements that make a difference for all of us.
The reliability engineering podcast network
Podcasts continue to gain listeners, so thanks for letting others know. Let us know what you'd like to talk about.
PS: Now, with over?2,006,788 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
Kirk and Fred discuss their views on how to best learn the discipline of reliability engineering.
Carl and Fred discuss the use of FMEA when ramping up equipment in a plant when the equipment had been sitting dormant for a number of years.
James speaks with Conrad Greer, founder of SPC Results.
On this week’s The Leadership Launchpad Project, Gary Ryan, author of Disruption Leadership Matters, joins Rob Kalwarowsky and Susan Hobson.
On this week’s show, Susan Hobson gives a keynote called High Performance Leadership.
The Leadership Connection Host,?Doug Plucknette,interviews reliability leader Bob Latino in this episode. Bob shows companies how to reveal Root Causes of complex incidents so they can save millions of dollars over time.
In this special episode of the Maintenance Mavericks Podcast, we have the?Director of Product and Services at SEAM group, Christine Witte, on the show.
This fourth episode of the “QDD Versus” series focuses on concepts relating to Design for Manufacturability. Understand how design specs fit into process control, process capability, and SPC and where they typically don’t fit at all.
Akshay and Anthony discuss the benefits of implementing Continuous Improvement (CI) practices.
George Williams interviews Matt Boehne, CEO of Banetti, at the International Maintenance Conference.
Riley is a thought leader in medical device design and development and has worked with class III medical devices for over 14 years.
Dr. Ron Lasky talks about the many books he has authored on SMT processes and production efficiencies.
Recorded 19 April 2022 / Chris Jackson
Sounds simple right? And it is. Reliability growth literally refers to a process where we improve the reliability of a product, system or service. But sometimes we find ourselves in situations where it is expected that not only do we understand reliability growth … but measure it. This webinar introduces you to the topic of reliability growth (both qualitative and quantitative) along with key concepts (like the Duane Failure Pattern) to help you work out if there is (or is not) a place for reliability growth in your organization.
Recorded 12 April 2022 / Fred Schenkelberg
Is a reliable product safer? Are the safety elements of a product or system independent from its reliability performance? These and other questions speak to the complex relationship between reliability and safety.
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
Join the discussion at the next live event
Scheduled for May 10, 2022, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Fred Schenkelberg
When fitting a line or curve to data, it’s a model. When modeling it worth remembering the George Box quote, “Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful.” Yet, how do we separate a useful model from one that isn’t useful? One step in finding a useful regression model is to consider the residuals. BTW: Weibull analysis is another term for regression analysis.
Residuals in regression analysis are the differences between the data and the model predicted values. When the regression ‘fits’ the data the residuals should represent the naturally occurring experimental (measurement) errors. These should be well behaved differences that tend to fit a normal distribution centered on zero.
Let’s explore what residuals are, where they come from, and how to evaluate them to detect if the fitted line (model) is adequate or not. Not checking or using a poor model is a recipe for major errors when making decisions. Checking residuals is one step to validate a model, yet it’s quick and easy to accomplish.
Scheduled for May 24, 2022, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
Most humans can be quite technically minded. And sometimes we aren’t. Sometimes we expect every drug or medical procedure to be checked, approved, validated, tested on other people (et cetera) before we subject ourselves to whatever it is our doctor suggests. And other times we spend lots of money at casinos (note that I said ‘spend’ and not ‘invest’ or ‘win’). When it comes to reliability, we can sometimes be too technically minded. A reliability ‘number’ might not exist until our product has gone through exhaustive testing. Which can often be two years too late to do anything about if it turns out it doesn’t meet all our reliability dreams. So what can we do? Well … why spend money drying to generate information (through lengthy test) when you can just use the information stored in everyone’s brain? The most common answer (even if we don’t want to admit it) is that this sounds a lot like guess work. And guess work can sounds unprofessional. Or just wrong. But there are ways you can suck out information from a group of experts in a quantifiable and remarkably accurate way. Want to learn more? This webinar introduces you to some of the concepts that might interest you.
Reliability Engineering essays and tutorials
Short essays and tutorials for your weekly professional reading. Did you know there are over 2,600 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.
Reporting is one of the most important functionalities of computerized maintenance management software. Organizations spend a great deal of money to obtain data that they can use to make informed business decisions.??...[Read more…]
We appear to be in a global recession – companies all over are struggling to deal with impact of economic slowdown. In an attempt to maintain profits, companies are drastically reducing their spending and also trimming down their workforce. It is anticipated that one-fourth of the employers in the US will undergo workforce reduction in 2009.?...[Read more…]
Reliability assessments require all of the previous six facilitation good practices in the “Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate…” series. This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate reliability assessments by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions, using exercises that engage, anticipating disruption, and controlling the tempo.?...[Read more…]
If managers knew what the overall power of a well supported Root Cause Analysis (RCA) effort meant for their bottom-line, they would be breaking down doors to implement the process. Unfortunately, this is often not the case, so this paper is an attempt to educate such individuals about the?characteristics of an effective RCA methodology.??...[Read more…]
Failures during product testing and use are a fact of life. Even with the most robust design we can develop an overly aggressive reliability test or find users that dish out punishing treatment, causing product failures. And for designs that are less robust, standard reliability tests and normal users will cause failures, occasionally or frequently depending on the design robustness.??...[Read more…]
We live in turbulent times.?Transformational times.?But what are the possible implications for the production industries and for process plant reliability engineering?
In 2020, Deloitte (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited) attempted to address the first part of this question by examining four (4) possible scenarios for the future of Europe’s chemical process industry.??...[Read more…]
For industrial operations struggling to get budgeted monthly operating results, we have a new book about building a?“success system”?in your company. If you want to ensure your monthly production targets and operating costs are always hit, read?Industrial and Manufacturing Wellness.??...[Read more…]
Hot on the heels of my two articles (part 1?and?part 2) about Data being unfit for purpose is another article by my colleague, Paul Daoust, just published in Canadian Business Quarterly.
Paul brings another view and plenty of evidence to show how we are failing with our use of technology. What’s worse, is that we rarely measure the results of our implementations.?...[Read more…]
Dr. Davison has more than 30 years’ experience in environmental management, integrated water cycle management and risk assessment.?Davison has more than 30 years’ experience in environmental management, integrated water cycle management and risk assessment.??...[Read more…]
Last summer while visiting my hometown, I ran into Sam, an old friend who works in a senior technical position for a very large organization. In the course of our conversation, Sam told me about a recent discussion he had with his division’s manager about the possibility of moving up in the company. He was trying to find out if his boss would recommend him for a promotion to a particular supervisory level position that had just opened.??...[Read more…]
?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]