Accendo Weekly Update #346
Podcast shows on
Maintenance, Reliability, and Quality
We share in one place the podcasts that are on topics related to maintenance, reliability, and quality topics We're looking for a good podcast or two on risk management or safety, yet haven't found them as of yet (maybe you can start a show to fill this niche).
Podcasts continue to grow in popularity. Creating a great show is also getting easier. That's where the network helps. Helps you find a show to add to your listening list, and it provides a way for shows to get promoted directly to an audience that may find it worth listening to.
If you are a listener, please like, rate, share, comment, etc., your favorite episodes. If you'd like to start a show or know of a show that should join this network (it's free, of course), just?let us know.
Announcements & Reminders
Noticed about 2k more podcast downloads last week (that is about a 15 to 20% increase). Not sure if folks are downloading before a road trip or if the note above about the network made a difference - either way... will run the note about the podcast network again. - Enjoy the shows, be sure to like, share, comment, leave a review, it all helps both the spirit of the hosts and with others being able to find the show.
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
PS: Heading to a Celebration of Life event later today as a neighbor passed away recently - reliability takes on a rather personal note at times.
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?2,071,305 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
Carl and Fred discuss the product development process in small companies, balancing the need to be lean and fast with the necessity of being thorough and not miss anything important.
Carl and Fred discuss which failures to count in demonstration testing.
James, Bob, and Ken discuss where frustrations in Reliability come from and how to break the cycle of frustrations.
Nancy Regan has had a love affair (professionally speaking) with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) for the last 2 decades. She believes that it is one of the most majestic asset management processes on the planet.
Ryan and Ramesh discuss the impact of decarbonization, electrification and sustainability in our industry.
The FMEA is a matrix of the collective team knowledge about the risks of this product, so it’s a valuable source in our investigation about what’s going on in the field.?We talk through how to go about using FMEA for complaint investigation and what we can do with the information.
Sandeep (Sunny) Jadhav provides some great examples of how he has helped his units understand concepts of Six Sigma such as Hypothesis testing, p-value, Statistical Process Control, and the like.
George Williams and Ramesh Gulati discuss Planned Work! Have any questions for the Reliability Sherpa? Submit them at [email protected]
Mike speaks with four experts about best practices for purchasing X ray equipment: Keith Bryant, Dr. David Bernard, David Kruidhof, and Robert Boguski.
Recorded 24 May 2022 / Chris Jackson
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 sound 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.
Recorded 14 June 2022 / 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. Let's discuss risk based, problem solving and decision making in reliability engineering and quality.
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
Join the discussion at the next live event
Scheduled for June 28, 2022, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
OK … we have all been there. We have all sat in some statistical presentation or read a document that contains mathematical symbols and statistical hieroglyphics that we don’t understand. And we pretend we do understand just so we don’t embarrass ourselves. And the people we don’t want to embarrass ourselves in front of are usually also pretending to understand those symbols and hieroglyphics as well.
This webinar is a light (re)introduction into common mathematical symbols used in many engineering scenarios … including reliability. They can be really simple to understand, if you only know how. So if you see all manners of Greek letters or have to talk to someone who always uses the term ‘sigma’ … and you have no idea what they mean … then this webinar is for you.?
Scheduled for July 12, 2022, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Fred Schenkelberg
Both reliability and maintenance activities work to reduce failures and downtime. Perfect reliability of a system would eliminate the need for maintenance. Perfect maintenance would keep even poorly designed (reliability-wise) operating.
Together the work of reliability and maintenance professional can achieve more then each team working separately. Each brings a set of insights and skills to the conversation. Working together means improving the design of a system so it’s easier to maintain. It also means the day to day observations the maintenance teams make provides meaningful information to the reliability team.
Let’s explore how these two related fields are bound together in so many ways. What works well and what could work better.
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.
In our daily lives we often become immune to risks around us. For example, there are around 40,000 annual fatalities from automobile accidents in the US and yet we do not think twice before getting into their cars. We eat a burger ignoring the risks of heart problems!
Why do we tend to ignore risks that we are frequently exposed to??...[Read more…]
It is easy to get caught in this trap. After months of working on an issue, you are asked to provide an informational update to a group of senior decision makers. You understand that no decision will come from your presentation. And there is not much on the agenda, so you are free to make as much as 30 minutes to provide your update.??...[Read more…]
Does procedural and/or regulatory compliance with RCA guidelines ensure Operational Reliability??Does it ensure improved Safety? Operational Reliability involves the aggregation of Equipment, Process and Human Reliability methods and techniques.
What is the difference between troubleshooting, problem solving and ‘RCA’???...[Read more…]
As I discussed in my?previous article, metallurgical failure analysis can be used to improve product reliability. The information from failure analysis of a failed component is used to determine the root cause of the failure. Understanding the metallurgical and form (shape, dimensions, features, and defects) aspects of a component and how it failed will...??[Read more…]
Much like the song, “Lookin’ for Love in All the Wrong Places” sung by Johnny Lee; risk management professionals need to ask the question “Are we searching for risk in all the wrong places”??Are risk professionals being deluded or deluding themselves by seeing risk based on media driven analysis; applying outmoded tools, models, etc. that no longer reflect the reality of risk???...[Read more…]
Split And Clamped Mounting Hub For Shaft Attachments. For speedy and easy maintenance it is best to use a clamped hub to mount attachments to shafts when possible. This article presents a conceptual design of a split hub bolted and clamped to a shaft. The required attachment is then mounted to the removable hub.?
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In manufacturing environments, especially in high-volume production processes, it is important to ensure the highest Machine availability rate for critical equipment as a crucial factor in achieving the expected output goals. The more the availability value there is, the better the plant’s capacity to achieve production requirements since the time available for each piece of equipment will be maximized.??...[Read more…]
Are you procrastinating on bringing a goal alive?
If you think dumping a few gallons of water in your oil reservoir would be bad for your rotating equipment, consider the consequences that “striving for perfection” has on your happiness and productivity.
I call it the?Prison of Perfection?and it’s wicked.?It’s where our goals go to die ??.??...[Read more…]
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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]
Reliability Engineering and Management Consultant
2 年This newsletter covered last week and this week is shaping up nicely to be another content rich set of professional development options.
Consultant
2 年Check out this webinar on RCM - Webinar: RCM Best Practices - Making Quantifiable Decisions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSKN-XW5Wa0
Consultant
2 年Check out Nancy Regan's webinar on RCM - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXo1jv_dUrw
Consultant
2 年acknowledged - thank you