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Their comments and guidance have tailored how to form a quick estimate, my ability to articulate a hunch and the effectiveness of those guesses.
You probably guess or make a rough estimate regularly. How good is your gut feel? Do you keep track and score yourself?
Making an estimate should be second nature for you. It’s not something to do in public, too often. The practice can aid you in numerous ways. [Read more…]
ENSURING YOUR MANAGEMENT DESIGN-IN OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE TO GUARANTEE THE LASTING SURVIVAL OF YOUR COMPANY IS WHY QUALITY GURU W. EDWARDS DEMING ASKED HIS FAMOUS “WHAT?” AND “HOW?” QUESTIONS.
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Deming would expect that managers had a solid answer to the question: “If you want your company to reach Operational Excellence in the next five years, then explain to us all, EXACTLY HOW will you do it?”
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A project controls colleague of mine recently wrote:
“Really, I never had to deal with delivery directors / managers who did not understand or appreciate the effort which goes behind a digital data fed dashboard”
Sarcasm, according to Oscar Wilde, may be the lowest from of wit but it’s the highest form of intelligence. While being humorous at the expense of those who demand dashboards it’s a sad truth that most demanders have no idea as to the effort required in producing a dashboard. For them dashboards can be instantly tailored to any whims or fancies at the flick of a switch or the stroke of a key on a keyboard.
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Dear All, we are happy to release our 76th video on Crow AMSAA Model for Reliability Growth. We recommend viewers to watch the following videos before watching this video for better experience:
(1) Homogeneous Poisson Process (HPP) and Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process (NHPP)
(2) Reliability Growth Concepts and Duane Model with Illustration
We welcome your feedback!
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Why RCM is a Must for Every Reliability Professional 🛠️
In this video, I’m taking you to the foundation of our new metal building to show why learning Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) should be a must for every reliability professional—even if you never formally implement it. RCM creates the foundation for an effective Reliability Culture by teaching five core concepts that are essential for any team.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
Core Concept 1: How defining Functions establishes the reliability you need.
Core Concept 2: Why identifying Failure Modes correctly is crucial for managing failures.
Core Concept 3: How to choose proactive maintenance tasks that are technically feasible and worth doing.
Core Concept 4: Understanding the role of Protective Devices and Failure Finding tasks.
Core Concept 5: The power of multidisciplinary teams in RCM and why collaboration leads to stronger, more reliable outcomes.
Whether you fully implement RCM or simply learn its core concepts, understanding these fundamentals makes you a more effective reliability professional. So, are you ready to build your foundation?
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“I consider one of my core responsibilities in running companies to have an environment where great engineers can flourish.”
This article will consider Elon Musk product development thought process…below is a link to a video where Elon is elaborating on this topic:
Mapping good ideas to product development is best done in the concurrent engineering framework, a collaborative approach to new product introduction. Using the MVP and the product roadmap, you are now ready to move into balancing design concepts with business concerns like costs.
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Do make compromises around gathering and analyzing data since you only need to report MTBF?
Do you use MTBF (exponential distribution) based test planning when you know the product has a non-constant hazard rate?
These questions came up this week via email looking for advice when directed to ignore the actual situation and just do what the customer wants.
I’m traveling this week, rather jet-lagged today, so going to keep this one short.
How would you answer these questions? What advice would you give someone using exponential based reporting, test planning, or data analysis approaches knowing the customer expects that process yet the data and your experience suggest you should use another method (Weibull or MCF, for example)?
Please add you comments below and let’s prepare a list of what one should say or use to respond to such actions.
In the realm of mechanical engineering the reliability and longevity of pumps are critical for numerous industrial applications. Predicting wear out of pumps can significantly enhance maintenance strategies, reduce downtime, and optimize operational efficiency. One effective approach to predicting wear out is by monitoring the revolutions per minute RPM of pumps over a large population in extended time periods.
This video delves into the methodology of creating a wear out prediction model.
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Predictive Maintenance applies condition monitoring techniques to discover potential failures. While finding a problem before it becomes a failure is good, companies can end up with so much work that maintenance backlog skyrockets, maintenance costs blow-out and people burn-out. Understanding when a predictive maintenance strategy can cause uneconomic maintenance, or why condition monitoring can produce unending failures, is vital if you want reliable equipment with low maintenance cost.
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Today’s Gremlin – Don’t sweat the small stuff, gets us into trouble by skipping details and steps, that are important, often to save time. Don’t sweat the small stuff cuts a lot of corners, and makes a lot of mistakes through that carelessness. Often, he’s trying to save time, meet a deadline, or satisfy operators who urgently need their equipment back.
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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works.” (Gordon Gekko, ‘Wall Street’ movie, 1987)
When energy-trading company Enron declared bankruptcy in 2001, it was the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. Enron’s execs were pocketing millions while knowingly overstating the company’s earnings to shareholders through fraudulent accounting.
“Greed is good” even in the highly regulated financial services sector. UK’s Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards sums it up nicely when it says, “Too many bankers, especially at the most senior levels, have operated in an environment with insufficient personal responsibility. Top bankers dodged accountability for failings on their watch by claiming ignorance or hiding behind collective decision-making. […] Remuneration has incentivised misconduct and excessive risk-taking, reinforcing a culture where poor standards were often considered normal. Many bank staff have been paid too much for doing the wrong things, with bonuses awarded and paid before the long-term consequences become apparent. The potential rewards for fleeting short-term success have sometimes been huge, but the penalties for failure, often manifest only later, have been much smaller or negligible. Despite recent reforms, many of these problems persist.” – with emphasis (Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, 2013)
[Read more…]At Pardus Consulting, we’ve just launched an online Weibull calculator that performs life data analysis on datasets containing both failed and suspended data.
The tool is free to use, and was built to support the reliability and maintenance community.
We hope you get a lot of use out of it!
The tool can be accessed HERE.
Effective communication is often cited as one of the most essential leadership skills in any field. In the maintenance sector, where operations are complex, fast-paced, and directly linked to the safety and efficiency of equipment, communication becomes even more critical. As a leader in maintenance, your ability to clearly convey information, foster collaboration, and keep all team members aligned can directly impact the success of your operations and the achievement of your organizational goals. This is why effective communication in maintenance leadership is not just a skill, it’s a necessity.
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Dear friends, we are happy to release this 75th video of our technical channel ! In this video, Hemant Urdhwareshe explains the concepts of HPP and NHPP for repairable systems. The NHPP is foundation for Reliability Growth! Hemant is a Fellow of ASQ and is certified by ASQ as Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CMBB), Black Belt (CSSBB), Reliability Engineer (CRE), Quality Engineer (CQE) and Quality Manager (CMQ/OE).
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