Tips For Building a Reliability Plan
Abstract
Carl and Fred discussing one of the more important aspects of developing a good reliability plan: how to select the right reliability tools.
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SOR 478 Tips For Building a Reliability Plan
Action Strategies to Reduce Detection Risk
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu
The Oxford English dictionary defines “detection” as “discovery (of what is unknown or hidden); finding out.”
Reference the article Understanding FMEA Detection – Part 1 which discusses how Detection is defined and applied in FMEA.
Action Strategies to Reduce Occurrence Risk
What strategies can be used to reduce occurrence risk in an FMEA?
“Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
Emily Dickinson
The Oxford English dictionary defines “occurrence” as “the fact or frequency of something happening.”
Reference the article Understanding FMEA Occurrence Risk – Part 1 which discusses how Occurrence is defined and applied in FMEA.
SOR 462 The FMEA Overreach Syndrome
The FMEA Overreach Syndrome
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Carl and Fred discussing the role of FMEA in product and process development, and how to supplement or replace FMEA with other tools, when appropriate.
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SOR 461 The Big Reliability Myths
Top Ten Reliability Myths
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Carl and Fred discussing some of the biggest myths surrounding reliability, based on their experience in managing reliability programs.
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Action Strategies to Reduce Severity Risk
What strategies can be used to reduce severity risk in an FMEA?
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Winston Churchill
strategy
The Oxford English dictionary defines “strategy” as “a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.”
Reference the article Understanding FMEA Severity Risk – Part 1 which discusses how Severity is defined and applied in FMEA.
SOR 452 Is Meeting the Standard Enough
Is Meeting the Standard Enough?
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Carl and Fred discussing a question: is meeting regulatory standards sufficient to ensure a product is safe and reliable?
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Preliminary Risk Assessment
Selecting Which FMEAs to Do
FMEAs take time and cost money. They should be done when a certain level of risk can be effectively addressed by the FMEA procedure. Preliminary Risk Assessment is a procedure that uses company-determined criteria to select which FMEAs to do.
“The key is to schedule your priorities.” ― Steven Covey
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SOR 451 Risk Identification Tools and Use
Risk-Identification Tools and Their Use
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Carl and Fred discussing risk-identification tools, one of the four categories of reliability tools.
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SOR 448 Reliable Manufacturing Tool Selection
Reliable Manufacturing Tool Selection
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Carl and Fred discussing the unique set of reliability tools that can be used to improve the manufacturing process.
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SOR 447 Reliability Tool Selection
Reliability Tool Selection
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Carl and Fred discussing the vast array of reliability tools, and the importance of selecting the vital few most important tools for a given reliability program.
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SOR 444 Permission to Learn and Make Mistakes
Permission to Learn and Make Mistakes
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Carl and Fred discussing the life-long path of learning, which includes understanding the lessons from past mistakes.
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SOR 443 Why Do We Start with Identifying Gaps
Why Do We Start with Identifying Gaps
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Carl and Fred discussing the process of developing a reliability plan and how it should begin with the reliability vision, followed by identification of gaps.
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Using the “Five Whys”
Getting to Root Cause with “Five Whys”
There is no more important task in an FMEA than correctly identifying the “Cause.” Finding the root cause is the heart and soul of FMEA procedure. When you have the right cause, it opens the door to solutions. When you have the wrong cause, nothing gets accomplished.
By continuing to ask “why,” the team will be able to discover the progression of cause-and-effect relationships behind a problem and the root cause that is below the surface.
Wisdom begins in wonder – Socrates
SOR 440 Got Enough Failure Mechanism Knowledge
Got Enough Failure Mechanism Knowledge
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Carl and Fred discussing how to utilize the knowledge of failure mechanisms to improve reliability in product designs. How much knowledge should you have?
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