Accendo Weekly Update #473 November 24, 2024
Accendo Reliability Webinar Series
Our recorded webinar archive
A mix of topics ranging across the field of reliability engineering and related fields. Formats range from how-to tutorials to thought-provoking essays. Topics include fundamental statistical concepts to overarching program management.
Or enjoy an event by the many offered - listed in one place.
Join us for these upcoming live events. Catch up with past events via the podcast series or the recorded videos of the events found here. If you have questions before, during, or after an event – just let us know. We do enjoy hearing from you and assisting you to improve your abilities.
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Announcements & Reminders
A big part of what we do is influence others. To select the more reliable component, to avoid a design flaw, or to respond to failures. The ability to influence is a skill you can master. The Harvard Business Review podcast (HBR on Leadership) has an episode titled "What It Takes to Build Influence at Work." It's worth a listen. (how's that for influence?)
Stay safe, stay flexible, and stay resilient.
Cheers,
Fred
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SOR 1019 Can Manufacturing Improve the Design
Chris and Fred discuss how reliability and quality is destroyed by organizations that like to have a ‘razor’ split between design and manufacturing teams. [Listen here...]
SOR 1020 8D with 'G'
Dianna and Fred introduce a special guest, ‘G’, and talk about the 8 Disciplines method of problem solving. [Listen here...]
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QDD 156 Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, AI and VR in Design Engineering
This episode isn’t just about embracing the latest tech trends; it’s about knowing when simpler solutions will suffice and the critical role of data stewardship. [Listen here...]
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RM156: In Introduction to Flexible Circuits with Joseph Fjelstad
In this episode, we’ll explore the evolution of flexible circuit technology, discussing its key benefits, such as lightweight construction, enhanced durability, and improved design freedom. [Listen here...]
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Fundamentals of Early Field Results
Recorded 12 November 2024 / Fred Schenkelberg
At least one group called this the ‘Delta Phase.’ It is the period shortly after launching a product and provides a unique opportunity to reduce future field failures and improve customer satisfaction dramatically. The idea is to aggressively identify and resolve any field issues identified by your customers.
Let’s explore the concept of a delta phase and how to implement it in your organization. Plus, let’s examine a few situations that make significant short and long-term reductions in the field failure rate. [Listen here...]
What's Wrong with Using FITs?
Recorded 22 October 2024 / 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 1000 years? If you are involved in electronic component reliability, this webinar recording is for you! [Listen here...]
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Reliability?Live Events
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
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Confidence is a Measure of You (not our product)
Scheduled for November 26, 2024, at 8 am?US Pacific time.
Speaker: Chris Jackson
We like to think that we make decisions based on the information we have available to us. We don’t. We instead make decisions based on emotions. And the most dominant emotion we rely upon when making a decision is confidence. You can have all the information in the world, but if you don’t understand it, don’t trust it, or otherwise don’t believe in it, then you won’t have the confidence to make the right decision. And we often try and generate ‘false’ confidence by having lots of clauses in contracts, schedule lots of tests, and demand people comply with standards. But the confidence these things create is a fa?ade that quickly gets broken down when our products don’t meet our expectations. Want to understand the only way you should be generating confidence when it comes to reliability engineering? Join us for this webinar!
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Fundamentals of Ongoing Reliability Testing
Scheduled for December 10, 2024, at 9 am?US Pacific time.
Speaker: Fred Schenkelberg
Ongoing Reliability Testing (ORT) is a class of product testing that aims to identify potential field reliability issues after product launch and before customers experience failures. Typically, done using a rotation of samples directly from production and using expected use conditions/stresses, the testing balances many factors to be of value.
ORT works well to monitor an ongoing production process subject to variation. If that variation impacts reliable performance, then a well-designed and implemented ORT should identify the issue.
Let’s explore the range of considerations when designing an ORT to optimize the ORT’s ability to identify field problems efficiently. We will also discuss the various tradeoffs that impact sample size, the use of accelerating stresses, and more.
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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
Thermal HALT
A Tool for the Discovery of Signal Integrity and Software Reliability Issues
Abstract—Failures in the execution of software can have many different causes. Errors in coding, incorrect sequence of software execution, and other factors result in software “bugs” that, when discovered, must be corrected for reliable system operation. However, this paper focuses on another cause of software failures: those that come from variations in the many tiers of component manufacturing and system assembly. ? ...[Read more…] ??
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Why don’t LED Lightbulbs last as Long as they say they Will?
Because the people that make them lie.
Not ‘obvious’ lying where lightbulb manufacturers calculate one reliability number and deliberately choose to put another number on their lightbulb packaging. But ‘insidious’ lying where they deliberately choose to measure the wrong thing to get a better number.? ?...[Read more…] ?
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Six Ways Soft Skills Matter for Engineers and Technologists
A professional colleague recently asked me how much technical knowledge someone should have before giving a presentation to senior management. My two-part answer was, “Twenty-five percent of what they know, and soft skills are as important as the facts they know.” Here’s six ways soft skills matter for engineers, technologists, and reliability professionals. ? ...[Read more…]
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Test Design for Component Life
Designing a proper test for the life of an electromechanical component involves several steps and considerations. Here are six steps that provides an outline to create a meaningful component life test. ?
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Reliability Block Diagram Fundamentals
Basic Definitions
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Lifetime Reliability Solutions Change To Win Workbook
Change To Win Process
‘Change To Win’ is a structured change management program used to introduce needed changes, best practices and innovative improvements into an organization. A ‘Change To Win’ team consisting of managers, supervisors and people from the workplace is assembled to implement the changes and is responsible to plan how... ??[Read more…]
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Asbestos Legacy in Canada
20 years ago, I wrote extensively, and held a rally on Parliament hill regarding the two-faced Canadian Government and Asbestos. At that time, I had just visited India, where I witnessed Canadian Asbestos being unloaded from Vessels, with workers wearing only flip flops and loin cloths using large hooks to grab the bales.
My Investigation revealed that Canada exported 268,000 tons of Asbestos to India each year, illegal to use in Canada, but it was OK to send to India, ? ...[Read more…]
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Central Limit Theorem: Concepts and Simulation
?Dear Friends, I am happy to release this video on a very important and fundamental statistical concept of Central Limit Theorem (CLT). The CLT forms basic for statistical control charts, hypothesis tests, ANOVA etc. I am sure, you will find the video useful! ?
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Fred’s Bicycles and Kaplan-Meier Error?
?The Kaplan-Meier reliability estimator errs on Fred’s bicycle ships and failure data! The Kaplan-Meier estimate was computed from Fred’s bicycles’ grouped failure data in the body of a “Nevada” table. It disagrees with the reliability estimate from ships cohorts and monthly failures (without knowing which cohort the failures came from). It disagrees with least squares nonparametric reliability estimates. All but the Kaplan-Meier estimate agree! Which would you prefer? ? ...[Read more…]
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SPC Q&A part 2
Favorite Questions and Answers from my Course “Statistical Process Control (SPC) Using Microsoft Excel”, Pt 2
In this second installment of my three-part article series, I am again showcasing some of my favorite student questions from the past seven years since first launching my online class titled “Statistical Process Control (SPC) Using Microsoft Excel.” ? ?...[Read more…]
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Defender of Assets
Webinar recording from 1/18/2024 as we discuss how to ensure we see the value from our assets by defending them, having the right strategy and people to ensure they run reliably. ?
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What a Sniffer Dog Taught me About Reliability
?In this video, I’m sharing an unexpected lesson in Reliability inspired by a highly trained Labrador Retriever at Melbourne Australia’s airport. While traveling to the Mainstream Conference in Melbourne, I encountered a situation at immigration that reminded me of the principles of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). Join me as I discuss how the training and care that made this dog so effective can inspire us to do the same for our machines so we can achieve the Reliability we require. ? ...[Watch here…]
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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]
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4 天前Thanks, Fred. Keep up the good work.