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Carl and Fred discuss why organizational culture is not fixed, and how reliability-focused leadership, communication, and sustained engagement can gradually transform the way teams think and operate.
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The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker
One of the most consequential topics facing the FMEA community today is how to effectively use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support FMEA activities. Do it wrong, and the results could be missed opportunities, or potentially catastrophic outcomes. Do it right, and the benefits are immense.
Carl and Fred discuss why effective reliability planning begins with identifying the gaps between an organization’s current capabilities and its long-term reliability vision.
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We want to let subscribers know that the recent spate of past Inside FMEA articles that were sent from “Fred at Accendo Reliability” to the full subscriber list were not planned to be sent. Fred let me know that this was inadvertently caused by AccendoReliablity.com website updates that allowed the release of some of the old articles. We are sorry for any inconvenience you experienced from loading your email with older articles. Fred says the problem is resolved, and should not recur.
Of course, you are always welcome to peruse and read any past articles. You can find Inside FMEA past articles by clicking this link, for the most recent articles first, or this link for past articles grouped by category.
Meanwhile, I will resume writing new articles next month, as part of the Inside FMEA series. So, stay tuned.
Carl
Message to “Inside FMEA” readers. This is a reprint of a message that went out earlier this week as part of the Accendo Weekly Update. I wanted to be sure to reach any “Inside FMEA” readers who may have missed the original request.
My new eBook is in draft form and ready for review. I am very excited to introduce this project, as it is the culmination of a career in reliability engineering and FMEA. The title is Achieving Effective FMEAs: Simple Principles for Realizing the Full Potential of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. It summarizes and simplifies articles I’ve written over the years as part of the Inside FMEA Series, with added emphasis on principles, examples, exercises and case studies. Each chapter has a section called “Potential AI Application” which shares where AI is useful, and where human involvement is essential. [Read more…]
Carl and Fred discuss a question from a reader about risk prioritization in FMEA procedure.
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Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed. Peter Drucker
Achieving high-quality FMEAs requires support from the right FMEA team. Getting the team to show up and participate to the fullest extent is critical to success.
Carl and Fred discuss the ongoing challenge between doing reliability work ourselves and enabling others to accomplish the work. And what is the future human role in the field of reliability, given the advancements in AI?
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None of us is a smart as all of us. – Ken Blanchard
FMEAs have great potential value to improve product designs and manufacturing processes. That value increases significantly when FMEA is properly linked and connected to other analyses.
1. Design FMEA can be linked to Process FMEA.
Carl and Fred share their experiences and advices about leadership, and why it is essential to accomplishing reliability objectives.
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Carl and Fred discuss the role of writing skills in conveying information to others and influencing the reliability of products and processes.
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“Innovation has a lot to do with timing.” — Steve Jobs
When FMEAs are done is just as important as how they are done. In this article, I’ll share evaluation criteria for the FMEA Quality Objective regarding timing.
FMEAs need to be completed through Recommended Actions, Actions Taken, and risk reduced to an acceptable level by certain dates. Meeting this objective of FMEAs means they were started and completed by the required dates. [Read more…]
Carl and Fred share their experiences in presenting, what they have learned, what is most important in achieving excellent presentations.
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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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“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.
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…]
