Accendo Weekly Update #462 September 8, 2024
Accendo Reliability Course Offerings
It's Back-to-School Season, again
We provide some courses ourselves, like the free 14 Ways course. Plus, we offer courses by other instructors/organizations that may be of interest to you.
Integral Concepts provides practical application of statistical methods.
The Manufacturing Academy provides a range of courses for Quality and Reliability professionals.
Industrial Metallurgist offers courses focused on metallurgy – including failure analysis and corrosion.
Plus, a smattering of other courses offered by other instructors.
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Announcements & Reminders
It's been quiet this week at Accendo Reliability. Plenty of articles, still looking for more podcast episodes and a couple of webinars. What's going on with you?
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
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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 3,286,046 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
SOR 997 Preparing to Interview
Chris and Fred discuss how to make a good impression when interviewing for a reliability engineering position. How do you prepare? [Listen here...]
SOR 998 Reliability and Politics
Chris and Fred discuss how reliability can sometimes be linked to politics (… at least in some way). Is this an experience you share? [Listen here...]
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QDD 151 Revolutionize Your Technical Presentations: Mastering the Assertion Evidence Model and the Six P's Framework
By focusing on the value of your insights and using the six P's framework, you'll be well-equipped to engage your audience and convey crucial information. [Listen here...]
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RM 150: The Truth Behind Statistics
In today’s episode, Mike and Aaron Brown tackle some common myths associated with statistics and shed light on how misinterpretation of data can lead to false conclusions. [Listen here...]
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Using Fault Trees to Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Recorded 27 August 2024 / 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. Tune in if you want to learn more about RCA or how fault trees can help RCA. [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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Reliability?Live Events
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
Join the discussion at the next live event
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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What’s the Difference Between a FMECA and FMEA?
Scheduled for September 24, 2024, at 8 am?US Pacific time.
Speaker: Chris Jackson
And the answers is not ‘the letter C.’ A FMEA is a group activity that follows a logical (and time proven) structure to effectively ‘brainstorm’ what are called ‘corrective actions’ for existing or likely problems in design and manufacture of products. Production teams that comprise designers, engineers, technicians and manufacturers typically have a wealth of existing knowledge and understanding of the product being developed. But some people will tell you that a FMECA is not a FMEA. And many government agencies in particular demand FMECAs over FMEAs. Interested to understand the difference (if any) between FMEAs and FMECAs? … and how you can make a FMECA work for you? Join us at this webinar!
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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
Boeing, Boeing, … Bugger. Now it’s the Starliner
There might not ever be a better demonstration of the saying that …
… a fish rots from it’s head.
Boeing is responsible for the half-baked Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that was forced into its new 737 Max aircraft. ? ...[Read more…] ??
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Interpretation of Moubray’s Failure Patterns
Failure Patterns according to Moubray
In his book Reliability Centered Maintenance1, John Moubray highlights 6 patterns of failure. However, one needs to be careful about how those patters are interpreted and used. Or misused. These 6 failure patterns are as follows: ?
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What is the MTBF Means?
Guest post by Msc Teofilo Cortizo
The term MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) within maintenance management, it is the most important KPI after Physical Availability. Unlike MTTF (Mean Time To Failure), which relates directly to available equipment time, MTBF also adds up the time spent inside a repair. That is, it starts its count from a certain failure and only stops its counter when this fault was remedied, started and repeated itself again. ? ...[Read more…]
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HALT or ALT
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Exploring the differences between HALT and ALT, or Highly Accelerated Life Test and Accelerated Life Test. Plus when to use which when.
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Plot a Distribution Curve of Maintenance KPIs
Make use of a probablility distribution curve of maintenance KPI's to show whether your maintenance performance improvement effors are working. A KPI probability distribution curve gives new insights into your maintenance performance. Using a distribution curve of maintenance KPIs as a new maintenance performance measure was what we recommended to this Maintenance Manager. ? ...[Read more…]
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Five Technology Trends in Manufacturing
?Corporations that create in this world facilitate so many integral pieces to contemporary life by way of manufacturing. Manufacturing is quite literally a backbone to so many other industries, generating components for medical devices, automobiles, electronics, and machinery that keeps everything progressing forward. ? ...[Read more…]
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A Biohazard and Achieving Goals
Don’t let this biohazard get in the way of bringing your own goals alive. Here’s how…
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DOE-7: Analyze Factorial Design with Minitab: Case Study in Maximizing Fatigue Strength
Dear friends, this is part-2 of our video on Design of Experiments using Minitab. In part-1, Hemant Urdhwareshe had explained how to create design using Minitab. In this part-2 of the video, Hemant has illustrated complete details of analysis of the design using Minitab. ? ...[Watch here…]
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Key Teaching Principle # 9: Constructive Feedback
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer... ? [Read more…]
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2 个月Thanks, Fred. Keep up the good work.