Accendo Weekly Update #459 August 18, 2024

The Reliability Calendar

What's Happening in Reliability

A listing of events of interest to reliability-minded professionals. Courses, webinars, conferences, meetings, seminars, and more.

There are also subsets or specialty calendars. A listing of upcoming Calls for Papers, Upcoming Webinars from Accendo Reliability, and a Webinar Calendar pulling from many sources of webinar events.

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Announcements & Reminders

I received an interesting email this morning, in part mentioning the desire to find real-life datasets to practice life data analysis skills. Suspecting this may be difficult for many organizations to share their data, how about we at Accendo Reliability gather sanitized datasets and make them available for analysis practice? Then, share the analysis results with each other for comment and improvement suggestions. What do you think of this idea?

We now have 22 courses available via Accendo Reliability or our affiliate partners. There are two new partners this week.

Michael Pfeifer of Industrial Metallurgist, LLC is offering online, on-demand courses related to metallurgy, including metal failure analysis and metal corrosion, among others.

Chris Jackson of Acuitas Reliability is now offering The CRE Exam Prep Course with 40 hrs of imperative reliability engineering topics that will prepare you for certification and real-world situations you will face within your career. This is a live, online course taking place November 4 - 8, and 11 - 15, 2024. And, they are offering you, Accendo Reliability folks, a 10% discount found by using the above link.

More about these courses is coming soon.

Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.

Cheers,

Fred

[email protected]

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Reliability.FM

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. Now, with over 3,277,120 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.

SOR 991 What is MLE?

Chris and Fred discuss what the MLE or ‘maximum likelihood estimate’ means … usually when using software to conduct data analysis.?[Listen here...]

SOR 992 Past Good and Bad Knowledge

Chris and Fred discuss the so-called ‘bedrock documents and statistics’ that are used over and over again as if they are universally correct – even though they might have nothing to do with ‘your’ machines or systems. [Listen here...]

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QDD 149 Maximizing Meeting Value and Participation

Tune in as we uncover practical strategies that make co-working sessions truly valuable which will help us in maximizing meeting value and participation. [Listen here...]

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RM 149: AOI and X-Ray Best Practices

In today’s episode, we’re exploring automated optical inspection (AOI) and x-ray inspection technology within the electronic assembly industry. Joining us are two experts who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table, Joel Scutchfield and Jesper Lykke. [Listen here...]

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Fundamentals of a Professional Development Plan

Recorded 13 August 2024 / Fred Schenkelberg

Professional development is not about pursuing a degree or title. It’s about what you can do with your knowledge. Of course, that is my opinion. Some seek credentials that may lead to a new position or opportunities. Some seek knowledge without intending to use it – education for education’s sake.

Let’s explore how to improve your ability to learn and continue to learn throughout your career. As reliability engineers, there seems to be a never-ending list of concepts, failure mechanisms, novel materials, etc., that we can and should know about. With so many options for professional development, let’s examine a few principles and tips so you can learn and master what you desire to learn and master. [Listen here...]

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U3 Parameter Weibull Analysis

Recorded 23 July 2024 / Chris Jackson

Some of you might have heard of the Weibull distribution. It is an uncannily accurate way of describing many of the ways components fail. It can model things that wear-in where failure is caused by pre-existing damage and defects in a fraction of products. The Weibull distribution can also model things that wear-out we failure is caused once enough damage has accumulated. And some of you might have heard of the ‘3 Parameter Weibull distribution.’ But what makes this different and (sometimes) helpful? We are always wanting to improve the way we model things, including failure processes. [Listen here...]

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Reliability?Live Events

Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes

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Using Fault Trees to Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Scheduled for August 27, 2024, at 8 am?US Pacific time.

Speaker: Chris Jackson

What is a ‘root cause’ of failure? It is something that you did (or didn’t) do that ultimately resulted in failure. It’s not corrosion (that’s a physical process that follows the laws of nature that you can’t change). It’s not a porous seal that allows moisture to enter your product to cause corrosion (that’s a defect or fault that you or your team made happen). Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is the process where we systematically work out what things we did or didn’t do that allowed failure to occur, and Fault Trees are often very helpful in finding this root causes. If you want to learn more about RCA or how fault trees can help RCA, join us for this webinar.

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Fundamentals of Reliability Goals

Scheduled for September 10, 2024, at 9 am?US Pacific time.

Speaker: Fred Schenkelberg

Goals, objectives, milestones, targets, whatever you call them, just have a clear one. Setting a reliability goal is easy. Get a few people together for a short discussion and in less then 10 minutes you can craft a meaningful reliability goal.

Let’s explore the elements that make up a reliability goal. Plus, the range of inputs you can use to define each element. Plus, some best practices when establishing goals.

Finally, simply setting a goal adds value to your organization – if it is a complete and practical goal. Estimating or measuring that value can be tricky, so let’s discuss a few ways you may quantify the value of a goal.

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Reliability Articles

Reliability Engineering essays and tutorials

Short essays and tutorials for your weekly professional reading. Did you know there are over 3,500 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

FINESSE Fishbone: The First S Stands for Structure

Reliability engineers and other technical professionals are challenged when communicating their work to senior management. The FINESSE fishbone diagram provides a system-thinking, cause-and-effect approach for communicating in the face of complexity and uncertainty. The first S in the FINESSE fishbone diagram stands for Structure. ? ...[Read more…] ??

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GE APM – Query Tips – Using Case Statement

?This video is for all the GE APM users who want to get the most from the APM investment. Queries are a critical part of the GE APM solution and mastering query building will help you get the most out of the solution. This video will focus on a great query function that allows users to use if-then logic in their queries. ?

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Always Looking for Someone to ‘Sign Off on That? … Your Organization is Probably Struggling

When I was a bright eyed, motivated (younger) officer in the Australian Army, one my many tasks when deployed overseas was to raise paperwork to formally request ‘battlefield material’ to be sent back home from whatever country we were in. ? ...[Read more…]

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Defining a Product Life Time

The following note and question appear in my email the other day. I had given the definition of reliability quite a bit of thought, yet have not really thought too much about a definition of ‘product life time’.

So after answering Najib’s question I thought it may make a good conversation starter here. Give it a quite read, and add how you would answer the questions Najib poses. ? ...[Read more…]

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Why Weibull Distribution is Most Common Used in Engineering?

The ultimate answer to the topic question, is flexibility. This distribution can take almost every shape. If we are looking on two parameters Weibull distribution, it can take shapes of exponential, normal and log normal distributions. If you hesitant which PDF to choose, to fit the your data results – Weibull can be an always not the worse choice. ? ...[Read more…]

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Is Detailed Design Anti-Agile?

In the Beginning...

?In days of yore, systems development projects were front ended with laborious requirements engineering and design tasks.? This made sense then because development was labor-intensive, time-consuming and expensive.? Changes to the scope or design of a solution mid-development increased the likelihood of errors and incremental time and expense. ? ...[Read more…]

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How Management Decisions Make or Break Plant Uptime?

When you run machines above design rates that decision goes against all that we know about creating high plant uptime and outstanding equipment reliability—in fatiguesituations 10% additional stress will cost you ten breakdowns.

The dominate factor in machine life and production plant uptime is the stress in your machines’ working parts.? ?...[Read more…]

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Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) Part-2

?Dear viewers, I am happy to release this second video on Accelerated Life Testing. In this video, we have discussed (i) Various models used to estimate the acceleration factor, such Arrhenius, Power law etc. (ii) Application examples showing calculation of acceleration factor (iii) Some mathematical relationships to estimate reliability at normal operating conditions and illustrated examples (iv) Types of stress loading used in ALT. ? ?...[Watch here…]

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Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: PM Route

?We are back with our 4th installment in the Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations series! We have discussed alarms, rework, and event rates. Today we talk about PMRoutes. What can a PM Route do if our CMMS system has the ability to manage them? How does one take advantage? Watch the video and find out. ? ?...[Watch here…]

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Making Statistically Confirmed Decisions

Co-authored with Mike Vella

Leaders and managers play many roles: planning, scheduling, coaching, teaching, supervising, hiring, and sometimes firing. While much of this work is routine, it often involves making decisions. Some decisions are low-risk with clear facts and limited options. Others are made with murky details, unknown options, and high risks if incorrect. ? ...[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]?