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Dear friends, I am happy to release this video on reliability analysis of life data with multiple failure modes. The analysis procedure is illustrated fully in Minitab software with a real-life case study with six failure modes. The concept is that when a system fails for one failure mode at time t, this data of time is right censored data for other failure modes! Analysis in Minitab can be performed in one single command!
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Who’s responsible for Reliability? Spoiler alert: It’s everyone. Just like the intricate root system of mangroves 🌱, building a strong Reliability Culture involves every part of an organization working together. Discover how to involve every team member in creating lasting Reliability in my latest video from Key Largo, Florida.
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Because the people that make them lie.
Not ‘obvious’ lying where lightbulb manufacturers calculate one reliability number and deliberately choose to put another number on their lightbulb packaging. But ‘insidious’ lying where they deliberately choose to measure the wrong thing to get a better number.
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A professional colleague recently asked me how much technical knowledge someone should have before giving a presentation to senior management. My two-part answer was, “Twenty-five percent of what they know, and soft skills are as important as the facts they know.” Here’s six ways soft skills matter for engineers, technologists, and reliability professionals.
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Designing a proper test for the life of an electromechanical compoent involves several steps and considerations. Here are six steps that provides an outline to create a meaningful component life test.
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‘Change To Win’ is a structured change management program used to introduce needed changes, best practices and innovative improvements into an organisation. A ‘Change To Win’ team consisting of managers, supervisors and people from the workplace is assembled to implement the changes and is responsible to plan how the organisation will adopt the changes, to trial them and then implement them into standard practice.
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20 years ago, I wrote extensively, and held a rally on Parliament hill regarding the two-faced Canadian Government and Asbestos. At that time, I had just visited India, where I witnessed Canadian Asbestos being unloaded from Vessels, with workers wearing only flip flops and loin cloths using large hooks to grab the bales.
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Dear Friends, I am happy to release this video on a very important and fundamental statistical concept of Central Limit Theorem (CLT). The CLT forms basic for statistical control charts, hypothesis tests, ANOVA etc. I am sure, you will find the video useful!
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The Kaplan-Meier reliability estimator errs on Fred’s bicycle ships and failure data! The Kaplan-Meier estimate was computed from Fred’s bicycles’ grouped failure data in the body of a “Nevada” table. It disagrees with the reliability estimate from ships cohorts and monthly failures (without knowing which cohort the failures came from). It disagrees with least squares nonparametric reliability estimates. All but the Kaplan-Meier estimate agree! Which would you prefer?
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In this second installment of my three-part article series, I am again showcasing some of my favorite student questions from the past seven years since first launching my online class titled “Statistical Process Control (SPC) Using Microsoft Excel.”
Each exchange represents not only the question in that student’s mind, but the type of question that lingers the minds of countless professionals trying to advance their skillsets. Each exchange – some of which I edited for clarity – become a permanent part of the class itself that future students can read and learn from. Perhaps you’ve had some of these questions as well.
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Webinar recording from 1/18/2024 as we discuss how to ensure we see the value from our assets by defending them, having the right strategy and people to ensure they run reliably.
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In this video, I’m sharing an unexpected lesson in Reliability inspired by a highly trained Labrador Retriever at Melbourne Australia’s airport. While traveling to the Mainstream Conference in Melbourne, I encountered a situation at immigration that reminded me of the principles of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). Join me as I discuss how the training and care that made this dog so effective can inspire us to do the same for our machines so we can achieve the Reliability we require. Plus, I’ll explore why it’s crucial to ensure our equipment isn’t pushed beyond its capabilities. Let’s dive into the heart of reliability together!
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A one-sample t-test is a statistical test to determine if the sample mean differs significantly from a known or hypothesized population mean (expected value). It is commonly used when we have a single sample and want to compare its average to an expected value.
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Accelerated life testing (ALT) is a method used to enhance product reliability by subjecting prototypes to stress levels significantly higher than those encountered in actual use.
By increasing the stress on the component, failure is induced more rapidly, which is equivalent to speeding up the passage of time. This approach is particularly useful when waiting for failures to occur at their normal rate is not feasible, such as when a manufacturer needs to release a product to the market soon and cannot afford to spend several years performing a reliability test.
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