Accendo Weekly Update #341
With so many conferences
Sharing your work and meeting colleagues is a great way to focus your thinking and network. You can see a sample of call for papers below, plus the site has many more and more added every couple of weeks.
Announcements & Reminders
Just a quick shout out to all those that contribute articles, podcasts, webinars, and more. Sharing what we know with each other is a pretty cool thing to do. ('cool', 'neat', ... pretty sure I'm dated - what do you say?)
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
PS: it's really nice outside - why am I still on this keyboard?
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?2,025,395 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
Greg and Fred discuss how and why to conduct risk assessments.
Greg and Fred discuss how risk assessment must be tailored to the context of the organization.
James and Dane talk about optimising strategies and how we determine cost vs benefit of strategies.
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.
With soaring demand for warehouses and distribution centers, should we make warehouses more efficient or get more space?
Dianna compares two types of commonly known tests that are used for design: ALT vs. HALT. What are the important distinctions between these two methods? What value do they each bring to design engineering? And how do they fit into other reliability test methods?
George Williams interviews Michelle Reines, Author, Speaker, Coach & Founder: 2 Distinct Leadership Development brands, at the International Maintenance Conference.
Dianna Deeney joins us, with whom I unpack in detail the question: “What is the future of quality?”. Dianna recently posted an online article with the same title, and since it really resonated with me, I thought she and I could talk through her excellent findings on the show.
I spoke with Dr. Ron Lasky and Jim Hall, authors of the SMTA SMT Certification Courses (along with Phil Zarrow) about the content of these courses. I also spoke with two course students, Claire Hotvedt of Indium Corporation and Tom Watson of Kimball Electronics about their experience taking the courses and the value they received.
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 10 May 2022 / 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.
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
Join the discussion at the next live event
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.
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Scheduled for June 14, 2022, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Greg Hutchins
Disruption has been one of the major news items in 2022. Disruption results in risk. You can see ‘risk’ in almost every video, magazine, and blog. Russia invasion of the Ukraine. Supply chain disruption. Climate change. New business models. Reshoring. Inflation. Price of gasoline. Can you imagine $10/gallon gasoline.
Greg will answer the following:
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.
Eating a few fries this one time will not increase risks of a heart attack. Plus I like the fries from this joint. I’m ready to order!!
That was a relatively easy decision; however, there are certain decisions that are more complex and may have significant implications to your organization’s future including organizational safety.??...[Read more…]
Sir George Findlay was a prominent British railroad manager. He was the general manager of the London & Northwestern Railway, a major company that underwent nearly 20 years of expansion under his leadership.
His 1895 book, The Working and Management of an English Railway, described an organization for railway track maintenance. The basic gang had four people responsible for 4 miles of track.??...[Read more…]
Every written or verbal communication needs a structure. The three-act structure stands the test of time because it is a straightforward, efficient structure that works effectively with our human thinking processes. An example of the three-act structure is the series “Communicating with FINESSE” on Accendo Reliability.??...[Read more…]
When I’m asked who our primary competitors are, I quickly and simply reply ‘Post-Its’ (full-disclosure, ‘Post-Its’ are a registered trademark of the 3M corporation)!
It’s hard to imagine anyone who hasn’t been in a conference room at some point in their career, utilizing colorful, adhesive post-its to help express some form of a logical thought process.???...[Read more…]
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is considered an important management tool and part of good public sector governance in Australia. The Commonwealth of Australia and the states of Victoria and New South Wales have implemented ERM. In addition, the states of Tasmania and Western Australia have issued good governance frameworks which include risk management.?This piece will provide a historical overview of the risk management approach used by the Australian State of Victoria.??...[Read more…]
Pressure Flange Seal For Liquid Filter Pressure Vessel. When a leak occurs between pressure flanges and the arrangement cannot be successfully sealed, it is necessary to change the sealing design. This article explains a successful modification done to the lid and body flanges of a vertical pressure leaf filter used to remove particulate from a liquid stream.?...[Read more…]
Richard Beer and James Reyes-Picknell – long-time friends and colleagues like to talk about issues of interest to the asset maintenance management community. Between the two of them, there is nearly a century of experience in the field. Both have seen and lived the mistakes and lessons learned that we call experience.
These video chats are moderated and edited by Houtan Ghaffarisaravi.
This first one is about Covid’s effects on maintenance activities and management...??[Read more…]
George Williams, CEO of ReliabilityX, explains The Bathtub Curve and PF Curve.
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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]
Call for Papers
Prepare your Paper and Join the Discussion
There are plenty of opportunities to publish and present your work with your peers. Research, findings, case studies, best practices all are welcome across the myriad of conferences, workshops, and symposiums (and here at Accendo Reliability, of course). Check out the links below for details. Mind the deadline, as they do not always get an extension.
If there is a?call for papers that you believe should be included here, please?let me know.
You can find the full listing of call for papers on?Accendo Reliability at the?Call for Papers Listing.
SmartGridComm?2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids
October 25 - 28, 2022, in Singapore. View the?call for papers ?online. More information on the?conference site . Abstract deadline May 15, 2022.
SoftCOM?2022 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks
September 22 - 24, 2022, in Split, Croatia. View the?call for papers ?online. More information on the?conference site . Abstract deadline May 15, 2022.
DS-RT?2022 IEEE/ACM 26th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
September 26 - 28, 2022, in Ales, France. View the?call for papers ?online. More information on the?conference site . Abstract deadline May 15, 2022.
CogInfoCom?2022 13th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications
September 21 - 23, 2022, in Budapest, Hungary. View the?call for papers ?online. More information on the?conference site . Abstract deadline May 15, 2022.
ICNSC?2022 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control
October 20 - 23, 2022, in Shanghai, China. View the?call for papers ?online. More information on the?conference site . Abstract deadline May 15, 2022.