Difference Between Quality and Reliability Statistics

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Philip and Fred discuss some of the basic differences and similarities between these two types of statistical toolsets.
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Dealing with Missing Data

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Philip and Fred discuss a few challenges and approaches to deal with missing data.
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High Precision Planning and Maintenance

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Philip and Fred discuss new shiny objects and why digital twins and IIOT will not solve your core problems.

High Precision Planning (HPP) supports High Precision Maintenance (HPM) which is a program running in elite industries today.

The emphasis on HPP is an absolute requirement to achieve HPM.

The benefits of achieving HPM have been demonstrated to be an improvement up to 250% in first-pass quality.
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Asset Management vs Performance

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Philip and Fred discuss the important differences between Asset Management “Systems” and “Asset Performance”. Philip has been teaching at the university level for over 10 years as an industry expert and has concluded that adherence to Asset Management System and certification does not equate into great asset performance. There is a very big disconnect between the asset performance of those organizations who are actually certified in asset management systems like ISO 55000. If you have a good Asset management “System” in the industry today it does not guarantee that you will have great “Asset Performance”.

Why ISO “management systems” like ISO 9000 and ISO 55000 and ISO 14000 are not well suited to produce top “Asset Performance”.

ISO is after all – a self-confession – “say what you do – then back it up with documentation to prove you do what you say!”

Why is poor asset performance possible form certified organizations? Why is top performance in an industry occuring where organizations are not certified to ISO 55000? Why do digital twins fail to deliver?

Remember – “the pursuit of Performance is the only thing that makes you Excellent!”.
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Robustness

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Philip and Fred discuss the idea of a robust design for a product or system.
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Vintage Experience

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Philip and Fred discuss the value of the experience our co-workers may be able to share.

• How important is Mentoring in the Workplace? Should we all be mentors?
• How do we collaborate with a cross functional team that is built through the many generations and Leveridge the experience and foster the growth of a recent addition to your workforce.
• How do we build a team and best advantage the walking encyclopedia? Coporate knowledge and Cross pollination of great ideas through effective collaboration techniques.
• What techniques are best to merge grey haired knowledge with the arrogance of youth?
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Dealing with Data

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Philip and Fred discuss the first basic steps when confronted with a pile of data.

• What do you do with a stack of data – can you make any sense of this – please? Can you believe the analysis results?
• Designing systems to capture the data you need, not the data you have. 🙂
• How do you work with less than perfect failure information?
• What happens when we mix end of life data with functional failure data – when do we “informatively censor” and how do we treat this type of data?
• Interwoven life renewal data and asset failure – how do we “see” missing data?
• Deploying the Reliability Performance Index (RpK) – how to adapt Statistical Process Control topics (SPC) Reliability.
• What is Integrated Process Control (IPC), Key Input Variables (KIV) and Key Output Variables (KOV)?
• What is an Asset failure? How to manage data from our CMMS or ERP system – how to deal with data sets with only replacement events?
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Assumptions and Analysis

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Philip and Fred discuss a fundamental element of all statistical analysis.
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Working on the Right Things

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Philip and Fred discussing what should reliability engineers be working on that are the right things.
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Expectations

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Philip and Fred discussing how setting expectations impact reliability engineering tasks and results.
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Uniqueness of Reliability Engineers

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Philip and Fred discussing a handful of traits that may be unique to reliability engineers.
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Listing of Failure Mechanisms

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Philip and Fred discussing a question about locating a listing of failure mechanisms.
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