Accendo Weekly Update #463 September 15, 2024

Now, with 1,000 episodes

The Speaking of Reliability podcast

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

Here's a summary of what we've been working on at Accendo Reliability: A new article layout based on Edward Tufte's book layout (aka sidenotes), a new course on statistics, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis, updates/refinements to the glossary feature, a new location and article series based on your analysis of provided datasets, and more.

Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.

Cheers,

Fred

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PS: I'm still seeking podcast shows that would make an excellent addition to the Reliabilty.FM podcast network. It's free, provides additional visibility for the show, and helps you and our colleagues find great shows.

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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 3,288,464 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.

SOR 999 Product Life Time

Chris and Fred discuss how long stuff lasts! … or how long something should last! … how do you ‘know’ what it should be? [Listen here...]

SOR 1000 The 1,000th Episode

Kirk and Fred and a long time listener, Nik Sharpe discuss the long history of doing this podcast from the first Speaking of Reliability podcast SOR #1, “Can you pass HALT?” recorded June 20th, 2015, to this 1000th episode. [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 151: Optical Inspection System Best Practices

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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Fundamentals of Reliability Goals

Recorded 10 September 2024 / 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.? [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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Reliability?Live Events

Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes

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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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Fundamentals of System Effectiveness

Scheduled for October 8, 2024, at 9 am?US Pacific time.

Speaker: Fred Schenkelberg

System or Operational Effectiveness is comprised of three elements. An early definition included capability, reliability, and availability. Another early definition included availability, dependability, and capability. In essence, can the system do what it’s supposed to do? Is it ready when needed? And is it able to work without failure long enough?

Let’s examine system effectiveness and its factors or elements in more detail. Then, examine an example or two so you can apply this concept to your situation.

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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 Second E Stands for Ethics

?The bottom line is reliability engineers must balance honesty and transparency with the pressure to meet business and customer expectations. The second E in the FINESSE fishbone diagram stands for Ethics. Three types of ethics are virtue, consequential, and duty-based. The most important aspect is understanding your ethical framework as you make decisions and communicate to others as a trusted advisor. ? ...[Read more…] ??

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A Novel Reason to Use MTBF

Thanks to a reader that noticed my question on why MTBF came into existence, we have a new (new to me at least) rationale for using MTBF. Basically, MTBF provides clarity on the magnitude of a number, because a number in scientific notation is potentially confusing.

What is doubly concerning is the use of MTTF failure rate values in ISO standards dealing with system safety. ? ...[Read more…]

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Why is Confidence Level

Why is confidence level so important in engineering test dataanalysis?

From the name itself it gives us a very good hint; Confidence level is giving the confidence in data analysis. In the next graph, you can find 10 samples and fitted Weibull 2p distribution with 95% of Confidence level:

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Creating a Successful Crisis Management Plan

Safety Projects International Inc. discusses how to handle different types of crises that may arise at your facility. If 2020 has shown us anything, it’s that we need to adapt to outside elements that may affect your team processes and procedures. Let’s get started on a crisis management plan.

A crisis may come in many forms, such as a natural disaster, a global pandemic, loss of power and water supply... ??[Read more…]

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The Evolution of Maintenance Practices

What is Maintenance?

A definition: Maintenance describes the management, control, execution and quality of those activities which will reasonably ensure that design levels of availability and performance of assets are achieved in order to meet business objectives.

If maintenance expenditure is viewed as the necessary premium to be paid for reliability insurance, then it follows that... ??[Read more…]

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Sample size in Reliability Testing Part-1 (One-shot Devices)

?Dear friends, I am happy to release this video about determining sample size in reliability and functional testing! The video discusses determining sample size with Success Run Theorem (or Success Testing) will zero failures as well as given number of failures. I have illustrated use of basic formula and calculation as well as use of various templates to determine sample size. ? ...[Watch here…]

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Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Design Rates

Today we are going to look at Design Rates. Often times our equipment are not running at their designed rate. Most of which are operational issues. For example, we tend to slow down a line, to present less problems, but it lowers the target rate. How do we identify an actual opportunity? ? ...[Watch here…]

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Making the Decision to Improve

Co-authored by Mike Vella

Hard work alone doesn’t guarantee success in business. Even after you’ve invested your inspiration, money, emotions, creativity, and prayers, the reality is that we live in a highly competitive world. You can’t afford to simply tread water. So, let’s assume you’ve either made a strong start in your field or joined a profitable company. ? ...[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]