Accendo Weekly Update #483 February 2, 2025
The Manufacturing Academy
A set of courses offered by Ray Harkins and team
Courses designed to teach foundational, practical, and analytical skills. Improve your ability to select and use quality and reliability tools to get results. Instructor support for your questions is available via the Udemy platform.
Courses on Reliability and Quality Engineering, FMEA, Process Capability Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, and Return on Investment.
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Announcements & Reminders
Did you know that Chris Jackson created a set of tips and suggestions on how to be a successful online student? If you plan on learning online, make the commitment, and get the most out of the course that you can.
Ray also writes articles for The Manufacturing Academy Article Series. This article series by Ray Harkins explores the tools essential for quality or reliability engineers and managers. Topics include statistical process control, reliability engineering, root cause analysis, and business finance.
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 3,338,991 downloads. Thanks for listening! Tell a friend about the network.
SOR 1039 Competing Risk or Not
Philip and Fred discuss the difference in data analysis and results when the dataset does or does not have competing risks of failure. [Listen here...]
SOR 1040 Getting it Right
Philip and Fred discuss the need to purchase, install, and maintain equipment with precision. [Listen here...]
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QDD 161 Cultivating a Culture of Craftsmanship within Quality Systems
In this episode, we talk about the crafts’ and trades’ relationship with quality systems, and steps toward creating a culture of craftsmanship. [Listen here...]
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RiM 33: Reliability Misconceptions in the Mining Industry
Akshay Athalye and Miguel Pengel discuss what it takes to become a better reliability engineer, clarify the distinct responsibilities of maintenance versus reliability professionals, and explore actionable ways to elevate the state of reliability engineering in the field. [Listen here...]
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RM161: AI-Based Inspection Technologies with Priyansha Bagaria
In this episode, we’ll explore how AI inspection technologies are reshaping traditional methods, and the tangible benefits AI offers to manufacturers striving for excellence. [Listen here...]
What is the Lognormal Distribution and How does it Help Me
Recorded 28 January 2025 / Chris Jackson
Some of you might have heard of the ‘bell curve.’ Some of you might have heard that the ‘bell curve’ is sometimes called the ‘normal distribution.’ There is a reason it is called normal … but that is not always obvious. But then there is the ‘lognormal distribution.’ What is this? … and how does it relate back to the ‘bell curve?’ There is a really good reason for this link. And the good thing is that all you need is just a little bit of knowledge about how something breaks (and is repaired) to help use the lognormal distribution to help you make lots of important decisions … easily! [Listen here...]
Alternatives to a Long ALT
Recorded 14 January 2025 / Fred Schenkelberg
Life testing a product or component, at times, involves months and months of testing. Even accelerated life testing can take a long time, given the limitation on our ability to cause the proper acceleration for meaningful results. So, what is one to do if waiting 3 months for test results is unacceptable?
Let’s explore a few alternatives along with the pros and cons. We examine using our knowledge and the knowledge of others to streamline the testing or avoid it altogether. We also need to consider why we need to estimate life in the first place. Sometimes, estimating the life of something is not all that useful or valuable. [Listen here...]
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Reliability?Live Events
Reliability Engineering webinars and master classes
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领英推荐
Fundamentals of Allocation
Scheduled for February 11, 2025, at 9 am?US Pacific time.
Speaker: Fred Schenkelberg
The dividing up of a reliability goal is one way to specify reliability goals for specific key elements of your product. Yet, that is not the only purpose of allocation. It can and should be a key practice to get your team working toward a common goal in a unified and collaborative manner.
Let’s discuss a couple of easy ways to accomplish reliability allocation or apportionment, then examine a valuable way to use this tool to improve the chances of achieving your overall reliability goal.
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Confidence is a Measure of You (not our product)
Scheduled for February 25, 2025, 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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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
How the Bottom Fin of the FINESSE Fishbone Diagram Improves Big Decisions
Communicating related to big decisions is a long game. Many presentations involving uncertainties and changing information will be made over months if not years. The FINESSE fishbone diagram provides the seven essential elements for effective communication for big decisions. ? ...[Read more…] ??
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Six Sigma In 9 Minutes
Six Sigma gives you the tools and techniques to determine what’s making the manufacturing process slow down, how you can eliminate the delays, improve the process, and fix further issues along the way. It is a methodology that has seen worldwide adoption. This video also provides detailed examples on how each of the two Six Sigma methodologies work. The example we’ll be considering is how a car manufacturing company is... ??[Read more…] ?
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How Did Reliability Become Confused with MTBF?
When Asking for Reliability Information, Do You Ask for MTBF?
Our customers, suppliers, and peers seem to confuse reliability information with MTBF. Why is that? Is it a convenient shorthand? Maybe I’m the one confused, may those asking or expecting MTBF really want to use an inverse of a failure rate. ? ...[Read more…]
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List of 600+ Centrifugal Pump Failure Modes and How to Prevent Pump Failures
Prevent centrifugal pump failure modesstarting by removing their failure causes and make your pumps highly reliable.
There are over 600 failure causes that will make a centrifugal pump set fail.? ?...[Read more…]
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Are we Ready for Maintenance of the Future? AI, ML and IIoT
In April 2024, Fracttal Tech S.A. featured our Principal Consultant, James Reyes-Picknell, delivering a seminar on the future of maintenance using the Industrial Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The online seminar was well attended, and a recording has been published by Fracttal on YouTube. ? ...[Watch here…]
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How to Manage Risks During New Product Development
New product development engineers are managing risks, daily, with each design decision: unknown risk in creating something new, risk introduced through a failure, human factors risk, and other risks related to products and services. Their design decisions affect downstream activities (from production through disposal)... ? [Read more…]
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Hypothesis Testing: Part-7 One and Two-proportion Tests
?Dear friends, we are happy to release this seventh video in our series on hypothesis testing. In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains the applicability of proportion tests, procedure to perform these tests and interpretation of results. The concept is explained with application examples. Do let us know your feedback and subscribe if you like! ? ...[Watch here…]
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Creating a Departmental Plan: Your Roadmap to Success
?In any organization, departmental success is key to overall success. To achieve this, it’s essential to have a clear roadmap that outlines your department’s goals, priorities, and strategies. A departmental plan serves as this roadmap, guiding your team towards success and ensuring alignment with the organization’s objectives. ? ?...[Read more…]
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What Decisions Can RCM Help You Make?
Join me, Nancy Regan, on the rocky shores of Key Largo as we explore the concept of nurturing our equipment through Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). In this video, I draw parallels between the discomfort of laying on a rocky beach and the consequences of neglecting equipment maintenance. RCM not only guides us in establishing proactive maintenance plans but also in determining necessary actions... ? [Watch here…]
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3 周Thanks, Fred. Keep up the good work.