Accendo Weekly Update #407
A podcast by Keith Fong.
The Way of the Quality Warrior podcast is about becoming powerful at the function of Quality—revealing the true current state and envisioning the desired future state. The underlying paradigms and contexts for practicing Quality and using quality tools are discussed. It is common for quality tools to be used with only the most superficial understanding of their purpose and the larger organizational aims and philosophies. Topics of the podcast range from what we fight as Quality Warriors to psychology to paradigms and assumptions encountered in work to talking about certain tools and their appropriate usage.
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Announcements & Reminders
Dianna Deeney is cohosting a webinar on August 22. The focus is on flowcharts, using some manufacturing analyses to analyze the user’s process. It’s free. I’m co-hosting with a group focused on technical communication. Here is the registration link with more info:?Flowcharts for Technical Communication: Taking it Further with Quality Tools (brighttalk.com)
Bob Latino is doing a free webinar "How to Effectively communicate Root Cause Analysis Results to Senior Management," on August 24th, noon US Eastern time.
Steven Wachs is presenting a 4-hour webinar titled "Stability Studies and Estimating Shelf Life" on 22 August starting at 9 am PST.
SMRP is running a survey on improving the next edition of the SMRP Best Practices. If you?provide feedback via the survey?you have a chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card. So, if you have a best practice to share - do the survey, and consider writing it up for your peers here at Accendo Reliability. The deadline is Aug 25th.
Save $50 by using?the coupon code?accendo5,?on the 3-day?Master Class - Maintenance & Reliability??2023, October 2 - 4, 2023, in Las Vegas, NV. This Master Class in Maintenance & Reliability will work to build upon and assist companies on proper and proven techniques, as well as strategies for developing and striving towards a World Class operation across any industry.
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?2,775,196 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
Kirk and Fred discuss a recent product failure that Kirk had with the manufacturer of his e-bike, and the positive outcome.
Chris and Fred discuss the role of regulations … good, bad and ugly.
Dianna and?Scott Abel discuss information development management, a discipline concerned with best practices for managing and coordinating all activities related to the development, production, and distribution of information.
How do we develop the capability of the team so that our company delivers the quality that makes us the first choice of our customers?
In this episode I discuss the hydrogen embrittlement mechanism and the engineering steps needed to prevent hydrogen embrittlement of steel fasteners.
Vice President Life Cycle Engineering, Bambi Hoyt and guest host Tara Holwegner talk about personal triumphs and failures that made them the leaders they are today.
Tate has been a driving force behind Spudnik’s success, leading their maintenance department to new heights and ensuring the smooth and efficient operations of their machinery.
The holy grail of DFx is DFM, Design for Manufacturability as it encompasses so many aspects of assembly. To help us understand what exactly is DFM, I invited Andrew Williams to be my guest on this episode.
Recorded 8 August 2023 / Fred Schenkelberg
In the past two months, I’ve received a few questions concerning why I recommend avoiding using MTBF or similar metrics. I’m also moving the articles I and others wrote on the topic from?NoMTBF.com?to Accendo Reliability. So, the topic of MTBF has been on my mind. Let’s examine MTBF a bit closer and just how much trouble this simple metric causes.
Recorded 1 August 2023 / Greg Hutchins
ISO 31000 is the go to international standard for risk management and risk based, decision making. ISO 31000 can be used by all types of organizations, regardless of their size, industry, or sector. ISO 31000 provides a standardized and systematic approach to risk management. This helps organizations to identify, assess, and manage risks in a consistent and effective manner. Most importantly, you can use ISO 31000 for your risk based, decision making. After the webinar, you will be able to use the standard to develop your own framework for risk based, problem solving and risk based, decision making.
Recorded 25 July 2023 / Chris Jackson
Covid taught all of us the importance of managing suppliers, especially those from China and Asia. Risk became the top supply management concern over supplier delivery, quality, and cost. For example, just in time deliveries became just in case. Many common sense ideas of lean changed. Incoming, in process, and final inventories rose. Overall costs increased. Risk became the overarching concern for managing suppliers.
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Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
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Scheduled for August 22, 2023, at 8?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker:?Chris Jackson
Ever heard of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)? It is a wonderful activity that can do amazing things for … what? It depends on what you might have heard, or what you are used to. Why? Because there are a number of different FMEAs that do different things for … different things. A Design FMEA can help us prevent really basic, simple flaws in a new product. A Process FMEA can help us prevent really basic, simple flaws in a new process. What process? Any process … but typically manufacturing. Many people who have heard of FMEAs usually associate them with either design or processes. And then there are System and Software FMEAs. Want to get an overview of which FMEAs do what and when you would use one instead of the other? Join us for this webinar.
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Scheduled for September 5, 2023, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker: Greg Hutchins
Understanding context is important for making smart risk-based decisions and solving tough problems.
Understanding context is important to ensure that you are solving the right problem correctly. Understanding context helps you understand the root cause of the problem and the key stakeholders. It helps you develop effective solutions. It helps you define your assumptions and biases.
Understanding context is important to making smart decisions. Understanding context helps you understand the scope and impacts of your decision. It helps you develop a process for deciding how to decide. It helps you understand the risks and obstacles in your decisions.
Greg will discuss the importance and provide examples of context in:
? ISO and standards-based decision making.
? Organizational problem-solving and decision-making.
? Personal problem-solving and decisional.
? AI autonomous decision-making.
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Scheduled for September 12, 2023, at 9?am?US Pacific time.
Speaker: Fred Schenkelberg
I turned down a job during the interview when I learned the hiring manager expected me, a potential new reliability engineer on the team, to only conduct tests. Creating and assembling a reliable product or service takes more than testing.
Reliability engineering is about influencing the entire team to make better decisions focused on achieving the reliability goals in balance with all the other constraints and expectations. Testing is one method to create information, yet not the most useful or effective.
Let’s talk about what is and isn’t reliability engineering along with the importance of focusing on influencing key decisions and creating value.
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Reliability Engineering essays and tutorials
Short essays and tutorials for your weekly professional reading. Did you know there are over 2,900 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.
Earlier this year?I was in Seoul and got a chance to see?Avatar 4D.
What’s the 4th dimension???Moving seats, wind, water sprinkling, lasers, and synthetic smells?used to enhance the movie experience.
That made me wonder, with so much?advances in media/entertainment,?why is most safety training so dull???...[Read more…]???
Recently, there has been an influx of Industry 4.0 companies promising their product/application would help predict the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of a physical asset. Each uses a mix of machine learning algorithms to estimate the RUL based on the data available. This is their value proposition. But what is this ‘life’??
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This is an example of the value of identifying the variability in your business processes and removing them before spending money on new capital works. A simple production rate distribution bar chart shows you whether you have a “hidden factory” and how big it is.
When a process is run, it produces a range of outputs that are its characteristic signature—you get what the process does.??...[Read more…]
What does the future of any profession mean? Underdetermined future events (e.eg. COVID-19)? Future proof job? Work /family balance? Health at a later date? Secure retirement??It is all of the above and that is why you need to choose the right profession for you.
The future of the project management profession is bright and strong for a long time to come.??...[Read more…]
In the world of reliability engineering, ensuring the long-term dependability and safety of components is of paramount importance. Nondestructive Testing (NDT) technologies have emerged as indispensable tools for reliability professionals in various industries, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, and power generation.?...[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]