Accendo Weekly Update #350
Final chapter in a few days
We are getting close to finishing the drafts of the book on reliability engineering management. Or, maybe we should say it is about the art of crafting a valuable reliability plan.
We haven't sorted out a title as of yet. Ideas are welcomed.
Over five hundred have signed on to read, review, and comment on the drafts to date. And, we do want your input, your insights and thoughts and recommendations. We're not done yet, this is just a draft.
Besides incorporating your recommendations and edits, we are sending the draft to a technical editor to review the structure, pacing, etc of the book in the next week or two. Once that is done and improvements made, then it's off to line editing - at which point we'll minimize adding content (locking down the design, sort off)
While the book draws on Carl's and Fred's experience with reliability during the product development process, the process detailed in the book can help with any situations involving the need to create a reliability product, process, or system. The process detailed works with individual development projects as well as improving a companies culture around reliability decision making.
There are currently 9 of 11 chapters available. We'll post draft Chapter 10 today, and draft chapter 11 later this week. We look forward to your input and sincerely appreciate all the thoughtful and encouraging comments received so far.
Announcements & Reminders
One of the elements I struggled with during the writing of the book mentioned above and with other projects such as a CRE Prep course and Accendo Reliability site content organization, is how to organize the many concepts, tools, methods, techniques, skills, that are considered within the domain of reliability engineering. I've seen in effective methods using the product lifecycle, or job title/roles, or alphabetical.
So, thinking that someone must have development or seen a brilliant way to organize what we do or should know - I ask: Have you seen a clear and meaningful way to organize what reliability engineering folks should know or do? If so, please let me know, as this has been a vexing problem and I'm looking for inspiration to craft a meaningful solution.
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
The reliability engineering podcast network
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Dianna and Fred discuss what makes successful training and consider it from teacher/coach and student point-of-views.
Greg and Fred discuss the future of networking and even influencing that can positively impact your career.
As a design engineer, you’re tasked with translating vague customer statements into something technical and measurable.
Gabor and Fred discuss the using and making sense of sensors in manufacturing.
Blair discusses why maintenance and reliability communications go wrong and how to fix it!
How do we measure the planning and scheduling process? George Williams and Ramesh Gulati dive deeper into why we do so in the Reliability field.
Mike and Graham talk about cleanliness testing of post-reflowed circuit assemblies.
Recorded 28 June 2022 / 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.
Recorded 12 July 2022 / Fred Schenkelberg
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.
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Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
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Scheduled for July 26, 2022, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
Reliability is a measure of your product or system. Confidence is a measure of you. But we often forget this. We often subject our new product, system or service to test after test until it reaches this thing called ‘required statistical confidence.’ But this is often an illusion. Which is great! Because if statistical confidence is often not ‘real’ confidence, then we don’t always have to resort to statistics to get confidence. In fact, those of us who exclusively rely on statistics are usually those who lack confidence in the product, system or service and need a security blanket to make them feel OK.
This webinar talks about confidence from the perspective of the ‘process owner.’ The design team lead. The CTO. The junior engineer. And how you can get a much healthier version of confidence through the way we design and produce our ‘things’ so that when it comes time to test … we are (justifiably) supremely confident that we will absolutely dominate whatever statistical testing hurdle can be thrown our way. And this sometimes means we don’t need to deal with statistics at all!
Scheduled for August 9, 2022, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Rob Schubert
Gage R&R – this is mainly a quality tool, where 10% is a pass and 10-30% is “marginal.”?What does that mean, or even better yet, how can I use gage R&R to provide meaningful results in a design environment where there’s?no specifications??In 30 minutes we will discuss how you can calculate Gage discrimination?– the more useful result for a design situation, and even how to use it for destructive reliablity tests.
Scheduled for August 23, 2022, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
Some of you might have heard about probability plots … like Weibull plots. Some of you might not. A Weibull plot is a really useful way of quickly ‘looking’ at data and being able to ‘see’ really useful things. This could be seeing that the rate of failure of a system is decreasing over time … which usually means there are manufacturing defects. It could be seeing that that the rate of failure of a system is increasing over time … which means the system is accumulating damage or wearing out. And lots of other things.
So let’s look at a different sort of ‘probability’ plot … and see what we can work out from it. And that means working out what we need to do to improve reliability. Join this webinar if you want to learn how to see really useful things in lines that you might not have appreciated in the past.
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.
There is a big difference between proactively mitigating risks vs. reacting to incidents. Why do corporations wait to take active safety measures till an incident occurs? Because being proactive is hard…very hard and requires a lot of discipline.
Let me share a personal experience.??...[Read more…]
In a?recent Accendo podcast, Chris Jackson and Fred Schenkelberg discussed who is responsible for producing a reliable product, which included designers and suppliers. I’m going to weigh in.
The reliability of any product depends on the reliability of the individual components and joints within the product. That is, the ability of the components and joints to...??[Read more…]
Maintenance management software increases uptime and productivity, lowers maintenance costs and extends the life of equipment and optimizes inventory usage—provided that it integrates seamlessly with existing systems. One of the toughest aspects of managing this software is CMMS integration.??...[Read more…]
Error Proof Quick Mating Part Location And Alignment. For speedy and easy maintenance it is best to design equipment with a means to insure accurate and exact location of contacting parts. This removes the opportunity for alignment errors during rebuilds and speeds-up maintenance overhauls. In this article is a sketch of two common methods...??[Read more…]
While there is oftentimes a “generational war” between the young and the old in the workplace, where the divide is created by the younger generation’s familiarity with technology and the older generation’s aversion to it, the multigenerational concern that plagues all age groups is that technology will outpace humans, leaving many unemployed.??...[Read more…]
Absolutely not! That is a big misconception of the process. You get to decide how broadly or how narrowly you apply Reliability Centered Maintenance.?
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British writers often marvelled at the quality and longevity of Roman roads, wondering how modern engineers and governments could hope to imitate their success. The fascination with Roman roads continues, and an excellent overview by Richard Brushi is available on Medium.com.?
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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]
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