Accendo Weekly Update #378
Top 10 Reliability Engineering Books.
Updated the list of the top-selling reliability engineering books and posted the results.
It seems the search algorithm at Amazon has changed again – in the past, when searching for “reliability engineering” under books, the results included books on quality, risk management, and general engineering. This time the results remained focused on books focused on reliability engineering topics.
I checked hundreds of titles and ranked the books by Amazon sales rank. Note: the rankings change often and may change by hundreds or thousands. On a different day, the top ten will most likely have a different makeup.
See the top books today.
Announcements & Reminders
Seems the end of January/early February is the high season for reliability-related calls for papers. 24 CFPs in a little over one week.
The listing of reliability-related webinars in February is going to get sent out on Monday – so if not already on that email list, it’s not too late to join and receive one email a month?listing the coming month’s webinar events .
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
PS: It’s clear and sunny here – still cleaning up from the recent storms.
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?2,399,493 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
Dianna and Fred discuss new innovations from a reliability point-of-view: how is this new stuff going to break?
Dianna and Fred discuss engineering projects and dealing with product characteristics and requirements.
Dianna Deeney and Emily Haidemenos talk about product design with brainstorming. Emily hosted a workshop at a conference about this topic, titled “Brainstorming: The Solution to Structured Problem Solving”.
Steve is an experienced Maintenance & Reliability professional and is the host of the podcast “Fire Forged Leader”.
In this episode I discuss two lessons I learned as a process engineer in the semiconductor fab.
In this episode, I speak with Sunil Vedula from Nanoprecise to enhance my understanding of the challenges, constraints, and benefits of IoT 4.0.
Christopher Almeras of Raytheon reviews the various ESD mitigation strategies as well as some ESD horror stories
Recorded 24 January 2023 / Chris Jackson
Sounds simple … right? We simply test faster! Great! But what does this get us? Many organizations are faced with a dilemma when it comes to testing to MEASURE reliability. If we test an amazing new product in ‘at use’ conditions, it might take many years before it will fail. This is time we simply don’t have when it comes to product development. So how do we test faster? One of the more obvious answers is to increase the stress. Turn the temperature up. Increase the vibration. Use more voltage. But how do we get this right? How can we know that (for example) one week of accelerated testing is equivalent to 10 years of actual use? This webinar will help introduce you to the idea of Accelerated Life Testing or ALT to help you and your organization make reliability testing a reality.
Recorded 13 December 2022 / Michael Pfeifer
Components and joints will stop functioning as required if their materials degrade too much. This is a problem if it leads to a reduction or loss of product performance before the end of a product’s expected life.
During this event, I will discuss the identification of the conditions that can cause materials to degrade.
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Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
Join the discussion at the next live event
Scheduled for February 14, 2023, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Fred Schenkelberg
(postponed due to weather-induced failures locally)
We have plenty of options to learn reliability engineering—books, magazines, newsletters, conferences, seminars, etc. We have options. Depending on what you want to know, some options are better than others. Likewise, some options are better than others, depending on what you want to share.
Formal learning in school is just the beginning of our education. To thrive in your career, you really should continue to learn. Given all the options available, how does one choose which to focus on?
Let’s explore the range of options available, pros and cons, and a simple strategy to make professional development a routine part of your ongoing education.
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Scheduled for February 28, 2023, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
Some of you have heard of HALT (and I don’t mean someone asking you to stop). HALT is a very powerful form of testing to really help us improve the robustness and reliability of new products. So what is HALT? HALT is a targeted test strategy to stress your amazing new product to (and beyond) it’s limits. Which means HALT will break your product (or prototype). Over and over again. Some people ask ‘so what … of course it was going to break when you pushed it that hard?’ But there is a method to this madness. And many organizations have used HALT to create amazing new products that are robust and reliable very quickly (with competitors struggling to understand why). Want to learn more? See you at this webinar!
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 .
The U.S. Government has extended the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) to 2014. TRIA is intended to support insurance companies in case the claims from a terror incident go above a certain threshold.
What is interesting are the exclusions used by the government for this reinsurance.??…[Read more…] ???
Despite their shared emphasis on maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) are not competing strategies.
Manufacturers can create a powerful synergy to leverage the strengths of each if they understand their respective strengths.??…[Read more…] ??
There are a lot of keen insights in the 2022 FINESSE guest articles for improving communication skills. Looking back on this bold collection reminds me that much good work, and systems thinking, is still needed for as we move into the future.
Is there a single theme that we can gain from the 2022 guest articles that makes it easier to communicate information related to work-related decisions with complexity and uncertainty??…[Read more…]
The late quality guru W. Edwards Deming advised graphing the process variables and the process outputs across time on a run chart (a time-series plot) to identify uncertainty and variability. When the run charts are used together, they help to identify the times and causes of poor results.
If you want immediate control over a process, then track the process variables—those factors that influence the result—so that they are observable as they change.??…[Read more…]
Are project risks round??Curved objects can be less controllable than planar ones as they pitch, roll and yaw; and the tighter their curves the more difficult control becomes.?Even a truly planar surface is, geometrically, a curve but with an infinite radius.?The Earth’s horizon, that imaginary plane perpendicular to its radius is considered by some to be ‘flat’ but in reality it’s a sphere so we can never see over the horizon.?But what has this got to do with project risk???
Nonparametric, age-specific field reliability estimates helped deal with a Customer’s bad experience using a Hewlett-Packard part in the Customer’s product: 110 part failures out of 3001 shipped in the first five months. Comparison of HP population vs. Customer reliability estimates showed the Customer’s infant mortality was not typical. Using population ships and failures or returns data eliminated sample uncertainty from the HP population field reliability estimate.??…[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 talk.?[email protected]
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1 年Thanks Fred. Great information. Keep up the good work.