Presenting Skills
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Carl and Fred share their experiences in presenting, what they have learned, what is most important in achieving excellent presentations.
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SOR 1141 Presenting Skills
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SOR 1140 Getting and Giving Feedback
Getting and Giving Feedback
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Carl and Fred discuss the role of receiving feedback in improving one’s ability to implement the various reliability tasks and methods. They also cover how to give feedback to others, so it is most meaningful.
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Quality Objective 11: ADDRESS HIGH-RISK FAILURES
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein
There is no more important outcome from an FMEA than identifying and addressing high-risk issues. In this article, I will outline how to evaluate an FMEA against the FMEA Quality Objective for addressing high-risk failures.
What is meant by “address high-risk failures”?
The level of risk in an FMEA is identified in the Risk Priority column. For each failure mode and corresponding effect and cause, the FMEA team designates the level of risk, such as “high” or “medium” or “low.” High-risk failures are those that the FMEA teams assigns the highest level of risk, based on appropriate FMEA standard or company policy.
“Address” means “to deal with, handle, or give attention to a problem, issue, or topic in a deliberate and effective way.”
In an FMEA, each of the high-risk failure modes must be addressed by effective actions that reduce risk to an acceptable level. [Read more…]
Quality Objective 10: TEST IMPROVEMENTS
“Evaluate what you want – because what gets measured, gets produced.” James A. Belasco
Years ago, many FMEAs did not recommend actions to improve product designs or testing. They identified risk, which is important; but missed opportunities to actually improve product designs and test plans. In this article, I will outline how to evaluate an individual Design FMEA or Process FMEA against the FMEA Quality Objective for test improvements.
What is meant by “test improvement”?
The concept is to take specific action to add new tests and/or revise current tests, in order to address high detection risk. [Read more…]
SOR 1127 Understanding Assumptions
Understanding Assumptions
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Carl and Fred discuss why it essential for reliability engineers to understand the assumptions that go into any reliability activity.
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SOR 1126 Good and Bad Meetings
Good and Bad Meetings
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Carl and Fred discuss what makes some meetings really useful and others a waste of time.
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SOR 1121 The Role of Stories
The Role of Stories
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Carl and Fred discuss the role of stories in conveying principles to others. At first, it may not come easily; but it is an essential part of good communication, and well worth the effort.
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SOR 1120 Asking Questions
Asking Questions
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Carl and Fred discuss another of the communication skills: how to use questions in your reliability practice.
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FMEA Quality Objective 9: Design Improvements
Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection. Mark Twain
In this article, I will outline how to evaluate an individual Design FMEA or Process FMEA against the FMEA Quality Objective for design improvements.
What is meant by “design improvement”?
An essential part of FMEA procedure is for the FMEA team to recommend and implement actions to reduce risk to an acceptable level. For Design FMEAs, this includes actions to improve the product design. For Process FMEA, this includes actions to improve the design of the manufacturing or assembly process. Of course, there are other types of actions that can be recommended, such as test improvements; but this quality objective is focused on design improvements. [Read more…]
SOR 1115 DFMEA and Assumptions
DFMEA and Assumptions
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Carl and Fred discuss a listener question about the assumptions that go into a Design FMEA, relating to manufacturing and assembly.
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SOR 1114 Listening and Reliability Engineering
Listening and Reliability Engineering
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Carl and Fred discuss why the skill of listening is essential to successful application of reliability engineering.
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Quality Objective 8: SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS
“Always remember, your focus determines your reality” – George Lucas
In this article, I will outline how to evaluate an FMEA against the FMEA Quality Objective for identifying special characteristics. Special characteristics are often not well understood by FMEA teams, and yet have potential to be highly useful in FMEA applications.
SOR 1106 What’s So Hard About Planning
What’s So Hard About Planning
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Carl and Fred discuss a subject that some people find difficult. How to plan for reliability.
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SOR 1105 Office Hours, Plus
Soft Skills Plus
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Carl and Fred discuss the wide range of soft skills that reliability engineers need to learn, in order to be fully successful in their jobs.
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SOR 1102 The Trouble with Interfaces
The Trouble with Interfaces
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Carl and Dianna discuss the topic of interfaces, in reliability engineering and FMEA.
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