Accendo Weekly Update #466 October 6, 2024
Statistics, Hypothesis Testing, & Regression Modeling
New Course by Integral Concepts
A collaboration between reliability experts at Integral Concepts and Accendo Reliability, this self-guided online course offers in-depth training to teach you basic statistical methods, hypothesis testing, and regression modeling to effectively assess, analyze, and make sense of your data, experiments, and comparisons. And unlike many other statistical professional development courses out there, you’ll receive additional support from your instructor to answer any questions you have along the way.
Designed for individuals just getting started, statistics expert and instructor Steven Wachs will guide you through a comprehensive and interactive deep dive into all aspects of statistical analysis so you can confidently:
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Announcements & Reminders
Notice in my Linkedin feed this morning that the SMRP Annual Conference in Orlando Oct 7 - 10, 2024 has been cancelled due to a major hurricane forcast to affect travese central Florida this week.
In case you missed it, The Luminous Group's FMEA 101 course is now available for $9.99 with 90 day access.
The folks at UE Systems are running a Halloween sale on online courses.
If you're in the electric power reliability field - Alan Ross annouced the Safety and Reliability Association (SaRA) - 'a growing, non-profit, community membership website.
And one more sale - ITEM Software is offering up to 25% off all ITEM Software Products and Modules till the end of the year. (personnally I would avoid using the parts count methods with or without software)
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
PS: Lots happening - what's happening where you are?
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SOR 1005 Tech Obsolescence
Kirk and Fred discuss long-term reliability and the speed of technological obsolescence. [Listen here...]
SOR 1006 Reliability Ethics
Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of reliability ethics, what it means, and how it impacts reliability professionals. [Listen here...]
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QDD 153 Myths of Product Development - Part 1
Join us as we review why treating a product development process like a manufacturing process is riddled with pitfalls. The reasons why it doesn’t work provides us understanding to what we CAN use quality tools and techniques to do to improve product development.?[Listen here...]
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RM 152: High-Reliability Solder Paste Selection Best Practices
?We discuss how selecting the right solder paste can influence performance and longevity, and we’ll hear from an industry expert about the latest advancements and best practices in soldering material technology. [Listen here...]
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What's the Difference Between FMEA and FMECA?
Recorded 24 September 2024 / Chris Jackson
And the answer 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 an FMECA is not an FMEA. And many government agencies, in particular, demand FMECAs over FMEAs. Interested to understand the difference (if any) between FMEAs and FMECAs? … and How can you make an FMECA work for you? [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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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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What’s Wrong with Using 'FITs' to Measure Electronic Component Reliability?
Scheduled for October 22, 2024, at 8 am?US Pacific time.
Speaker: Chris Jackson
Every industry has its own way of characterizing reliability metrics. For example, the ball bearing industry uses the metric ‘B_10’ to represent the time by which they expect 10 % of all ball bearings of a specific type to fail. Electronic component manufacturers use the term ‘Failures in Time’ of ‘FITs’ to describe the reliability of their products. But what is a FIT? And how can you use it to measure reliability? Did you know that many electronic manufacturers advertise ‘FIT values’ that imply a mean time to failure of over 1 000 years? If you are involved in electronic component reliability, then join us for 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
Three Ways Great Facilitators Anticipate Trouble
Great facilitators anticipate trouble when guiding groups. We normally consider conflict between the participants as the most likely disruptor. However, facilitators should be prepared to overcome a handful of disruptor types in collaborative sessions. This article discusses technology misfires and provides three case examples with solutions. ? ?...[Read more…]??
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Futility of Using MTBF to Design an ALT
Let’s say we want to characterize the reliability performance of a vendor’s device. We’re considering including the device within our system, if and only if, it will survive 5 years reasonably well.
The vendor’s data sheet lists an MTBF value of 200,000 hours. A call to the vendor and search of their site doesn’t reveal any additional reliability information. ??...[Read more…]
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Test Design for Component Life
A short video discussion how to design a test to estimate component life.
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Understanding FMEA Compensating Provisions
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the “wrong” scenario occurs. Michael Porter
The use of Compensating Provisions in FMEA is a key part of many FMEA standards. Regardless of what FMEA standard you are using, everyone who aspires to doing FMEAs properly should understand the role of mitigating the risk of very high severity.? ?...[Read more…]
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Effective Safety Communications
Recently, I was talking to the Managing Director of a large recruiting firm for safety professionals in Toronto about the importance of communication skills.
It was very clear that safety leaders are just expected to be experts in the technical aspects of safety, but it’s the ability to communicate about safety that sets apart the great safety leaders from the mediocre.? ?...[Read more…]
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Measuring and Improving Your Chance of Business Process Success
An endless Dilemma confronts every business. It is how to ensure that the activities we undertake will always produce the intended results.
Explosions, workplace deaths, harmful accidents, physical injuries, damaged goods, scrapped jobs, repeat work, manufacturing errors, operating mistakes, bad repairs... ??[Read more…]
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Reliability Testing Sampling Plans Part-2 (PRST and Fixed Length Plans)
Dear friends, Institute of Quality and Reliability is happy to release this video on Reliability Testing Sampling Plans. In this is Part-2 of the video, Hemant Urdhwareshe has explained the Probability Ratio Sequential Test (PRST) and Fixed Length plans from MIL-Handbook-781. These include illustrated explanation of the plans and applicability. ? ?...[Watch here…]
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“Springing” into action with RCM…
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In this video we touch on all 7 steps of the RCM process as we introduce one of the most important aspects of the application of RCM…asking the people who really know!
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5 个月Thanks Fred, Keep up the good work.