Accendo Weekly Update #357
A podcast by Mike Konrad
Reliability Matters is a podcast on the subject of reliability of circuit assemblies. Reliability "best practices" and success stories are discussed. This podcast features interviews with experts in the electronic assembly industry. All electronic production segments which effect product reliability are on the table. This includes contamination, coating, cleanliness assessment, inspection, building for harsh environments and more.
Announcements & Reminders
Have you heard the term "content marketing"? It's a method of providing useful and practical information for free to anyone interested in the topic. It allows those finding the content to know, like, and trust the person providing the information. Instead of interrupting your day with banner ads or pop-ups, you get useful content to help you solve problems, learn a bit more about your craft, and know how your peers do their work.
Your peers that provide this content for free reach a larger audience. Accendo Reliability has?found that providing great content regularly helps those looking for the topics we discuss find it. About 80% of the traffic to Accendo Reliability is the result of a Google search. It seems working together to provide a steady stream of content helps our content be found.
The idea is to create a virtuous circle. We provide the content you want to find. You find what you need and maybe a bit more. This helps the contributors become known and trusted. The visitors look for and click through to Accendo Reliability for content, further improving the site's visibility.
The best part of this sort of marketing - there is no money exchanged. No one pays to provide content on the site. We ask contributors to minimize advertising and to focus on providing useful and practical information. A note to find more information... is fine. Hard sell or only sales copy is not permitted nor desired. All the contributors benefit by being found, known, and trusted.?
This is a different model than found in professional societies or trade magazines. It's an experiment, and very happy that it's working.
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?2,170,311 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
Chris and Fred discuss how you go about finding a lab to help you come up with some meaningful reliability information.?
Kirk and Fred discuss a question from a listener, that is pretty fundamental to HALT programs, what to do before starting to do HALT.
We don’t just rely on the numbers – we always plot the data!
We review how we use plots to look past the numbers, and to be aware of common gotchas.?
We explore Bennett’s extensive experience in lubrication and oil analysis to uncover practical tips and tricks for improving lubrication practices in your own organization.
Jagadish is a passionate entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise software and connected devices with hardware, software, and cloud analytics
Do you have a circuit assembly that needs to be built? Don’t have the equipment in-house or enough bandwidth or specialized expertise to build it? You may be best served by utilizing the services of a contract manufacturer.?
Recorded 23 August 2022 / 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 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.
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Recorded 9 August 2022 / 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 are 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 reliability tests.?
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
Join the discussion at the next live event
Scheduled for September 13, 2022, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Fred Schenkelberg
What is it that makes the difference between good and great related to reliability engineers? What is the magic element that separates those that can carry out tasks such as facilitating an FMEA or designing and analyzing an ALT from those that impact an organization’s culture? A good impact that improves the organization’s ability to create reliable products. Let’s explore the various stages of a career in reliability engineering, from getting started, to being competent, to becoming great. Let’s explore the technical and soft skills one must master along the way. If you want to enjoy your work and make a difference in your organization, this webinar may provide a few ideas to help you make that happen.?
Scheduled for September 27, 2022, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
If you have spent any amount of time doing reliability engineering stuff, you will probably have heard of this thing called a ‘fault tree.’ You may have even used fault trees a lot. But it is amazing how many different reliability engineers have different ideas about how to best use a fault tree. Some think fault trees are strictly used to work out which combinations of components need to fail in order for the system to fail (system reliability modelling). Others think fault trees are really useful for helping us work out what the causes of failure are (root cause analysis). Both people are right. So why do we get these competing schools of thought? Join us for this webinar to learn more about how fault trees can help you … regardless of what you are trying to achieve.
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.
Green is “In”.
Consumers, retail stores, and corporate policies are all going green.
But just because you have a green technology does not mean you have ZERO risks. Let me give you a couple of examples.??...[Read more…]??
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”?– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are times when an FMEA facilitator has difficulty arriving at consensus with the FMEA team. This sometimes happens when there are two or more competing ideas or solutions and members of the team feel strongly about their personal idea or solution. One tool that can be used to solve this problem is called Pugh Analysis, a type of decision matrix.??...[Read more…]??
Even as I write this article, jobs in industries ranging from entertainment and media to manufacturing and medicine are being transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and its many iterations. Many people don’t even know they are already in a competition with AI and that several facets of their job are already being accomplished by a digital application or intelligent machine. Workers will not be able to outpace these machines simply by working longer hours or moving faster on the assembly line.??...[Read more…]
1. Application.
Any engineer with known expertise or responsibilities in the area of ‘vibration’ will be asked?sooner or later to advise on a vibration isolation problem. While the principles of vibration isolation are relatively simple to understand the practical application requires some design skills and a good understanding of the vibration source or sources.??...[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]
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2 年Thank you Fred, I share some of the information with my associates and I am getting excellent feedback. Have a great day. - Carl