Accendo Weekly Update #347
Sharing Builds Community
Podcasts, articles, webinars, etc.
Just last week, summarised in this newsletter, 20 individuals shared some of their knowledge with you freely. It takes time to record and share a podcast episode, it also takes time to write and edit a technical paper. These are investments by individuals in our community.
As reliability and related field professionals, we are not competitors - not really. We may work for competing firms or offer services that others offer as well. Yet, all have learned from others. From course work, mentors, colleagues, and dare I say, our competitors.
To those that share what they know - thank you! To those that ask questions and learn form others - well done! And beyond the 20 or so contributors last week at Accendo Reliability, there are thousands of others sharing what they know via conferences, journals, blogs,?courses, podcasts, and daily conversations.
If you have something to share or a question - contact us and actively join the community that learns by sharing.
Ideas or Questions, contact Fred at [email protected]
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Announcements & Reminders
One way you can share is to share this newsletter with your network - that is much appreciated as it both encourages others to share their knowledge, and it helps others to learn from what is being shared.
We are preparing the monthly webinar event email - looks like July is shaping up to be another month full of interesting options for your webinar attending. If you don't want to miss it, be sure to join the?Upcoming Reliability Webinar email list. One message per month with the coming months listing of reliability and related webinars (all that we can find from over 40 sources).
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
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?2,082,044 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
Greg and Fred discuss risk based, decision making for reliability and quality engineers.
Greg and Fred discuss risk management training for all employees.
James, Bob, and Ken discuss where frustrations in Reliability come from and how to break the cycle of frustrations.
Mr. John Reeve is very skilled at performing site assessments, gap analysis and creating long-range plans for excellence in maintenance. He specializes in CMMS design for reliability centered maintenance as a living program with specialization in advanced processes.
Rhys shares his passion for helping organizations better understand what “value” means for Asset Managers and their stakeholders.
Reliability Engineering isn’t just about assessments. It’s about providing information to make decisions. How does reliability engineering affect design?
How is maintenance perceived in industry? We often struggle with buy-in from our operations and it negatively impacts our ability to do our jobs and continuously improve. Today we are talking about just that with the episode of “Industrial Ego.”
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 who should be a planner and why! 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.
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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.
Following the release of natural gas, it can be ignited resulting in fire which in turn can potentially result in an explosion. So how likely will a gas release ignite?If you are interested in the major failure modes for natural gas transmission pipelines reported, please refer to an earlier post –?External Damage: Number One Cause Natural Gas Pipeline Releases.??...[Read more…]
The utility had an excellent opportunity to implement a green initiative. Energy could be created from excess digester gas at the wastewater treatment plant. There seemed to be a full range of feasible options after an engineering analysis.
“We can convert the gas and use it to either heat the building or reuse it to make the wastewater treatment process more efficient,”??...[Read more…]
Properly conducted RCAs are time and resource consuming, so when we are not getting the expected ROI’s from our efforts, we have to consider why are we wasting so much money doing the same thing over and over again??This article will focus on the commercial and process aspects of RCA, that can take away from their effectiveness on the corporate bottom-line and impact the safety of our co-workers.??...[Read more…]
Recently, we ran a two-week-long survey about training. It asked two questions and here are the results:
For training of your workforce, which do you prefer?
Nearly 3000 viewed the question and 70 answered:
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The 20th?Century saw maintenance strategy evolve from corrective, predictive and preventive maintenance to reliability maximization. During the 21st?century maintenance will disappear and be replaced with risk-free equipment operation where no failures occur.??...[Read more…]
In a?previous article?I explored how workers and employers should approach the future and opined that both would be better off if they each understood the motivations and tactics that the other would employ to further their interests.?Workers are concerned about achieving and maintaining marketability to employers and companies are concerned about...??[Read more…]
In measurement science, “bias” refers to the?systematic?error component of the measurement system. Unlike other types of measurement error that are randomly distributed, a bias predictably shifts a measurement in the same direction.
For instance, I recently facilitated a “round robin” measurement correlation study with two other companies, where we compared the outputs of our hardness testers using the same set of test samples.??...[Read more…]
George Williams, CEO of ReliabilityX, telling us why we should use Ultrasound Technology?
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As I rode, I thought, how could I use reliability statistics to optimize a solar-tube production line? Then I noticed a brass glint in the scrub brush. It didn’t look like trash, so I stopped and found an old brass oil lamp like Aladdin’s. Naturally, I rubbed it. There was a flash and a puff of smoke, and out popped the genie who said, “Yes master, by the powers vested in me, I grant you three wishes.”??...[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]