Common Reliability Mistakes
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Carl and Fred discuss some of the most common reliability mistakes they have seen in their careers, both ones they have personally made or viewed.
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SOR 969 Common Reliability Mistakes
Key Teaching Principle #5 Convey Interest and Passion
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer who wishes to convey knowledge to another person, this series will offer practical knowledge and advice.
Conveying Interest and Passion When Teaching
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” Horace Mann
What is Interest and how does it enhance learning?
The definition of interest is “a feeling that accompanies or causes special attention to something or someone.” [Read more…]
SOR 960 Differing FMEA Approaches
Differing FMEA Approaches
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Carl and Fred discuss their overall approach to FMEA, what works and doesn’t work.
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SOR 959 Knotty Detection
Knotty Detection
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Carl and Fred discuss reader questions on FMEA detection, a subject which can be challenging and confusing. Detection is a key part of FMEA during product development as well as in operation. This podcast will discuss some of the “knottiest” challenges with understanding detection in FMEA.
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Key Teaching Principle # 4: Questioning
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer who wishes to convey knowledge to another person, this series will offer practical knowledge and advice.
The Importance of Questioning
“No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.” Socrates
Questioning is important for transferring knowledge and building relationships. It is an essential part of effective teaching.
SOR 951 Shorter Lifespan of Large Appliances
Shorter Lifespan of Newer Appliances
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Carl and Fred discuss an article from the Wall Street Journal describing how newer appliances tend to have more complexity and shorter lifespans, and what can be done to reverse the trend.
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SOR 950 Value of Design FMEA
Value of Design FMEA
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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting question from a listener about modeling the money value of Design FMEAs.
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Key Teaching Principle #3: Managing Attention
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer who wishes to convey knowledge to another person, this series will offer practical knowledge and advice.
The Importance of Managing Attention
“Attention is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought.” William James
Whether you are conveying knowledge to one person or teaching a class, there is no more important factor than getting and maintaining the attention of the other person. Managing attention is a skill that can be learned.
SOR 941 Risk vs Reliability
Risk vs Reliability
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Carl and Fred discuss whether the reliability community should focus on the body of knowledge associated with risk or reliability. ᐅ Play Episode
SOR 940 When I Know it’s Not Right
When I Know it’s Not Right
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Carl and Fred discuss a question brought up at recent conference: what do you do when you are supposed to do something that you know is not the right thing to do? The context was reliability engineering and management.
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Key Teaching Principle #2: Connection
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer who wishes to convey knowledge to another person, this series will offer practical knowledge and advice.
The Role of Personal Connection When Teaching
Invisible threads are the strongest ties Friedrich Nietzsche
Key Teaching Principle # 2 is the instructor maintains a genuine connection with each of the students.
Our scientific knowledge has accelerated so rapidly that we sometimes forget the importance of human connection to our well being.
SOR 931 FMEA Detection – Useful?
FMEA Detection – Useful?
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Carl and Fred discuss a reader question about assessing risk related to detection, as part of FMEA procedure, specifically its usefulness and application.
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SOR 930 Reliability Goals and Requirements
Reliability Goals and Requirements
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Carl and Fred discuss the importance of well-written reliability requirements and whether they should be goals or actual requirements.
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Key Teaching Principle #1: Understanding
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer who wishes to convey knowledge to another person, this series will offer practical knowledge and advice.
Understand What You Teach
Key Teaching Principle # 1 is the instructor demonstrates a solid understanding of fundamentals, speaking directly to students, and not reading slides.
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” Plato
When is FMEA complete?
“Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.” Carl Jung
One of the common FMEA questions that comes up is: When is an FMEA complete? You’d think it would be simple, but many organizations and practitioners get it wrong.
In this article, I’ll begin with the purpose of Design and Process FMEAs, and from there, we’ll examine two very different approaches to completing an FMEA.
