Accendo Reliability Live Events
Select reliability webinar events meant to provide practical and informative educational material for your professional development.
A mix of topics ranging across the field of reliability engineering and related fields. Formats range from how-to tutorials to thought-provoking essays. Topics include fundamental statistical concepts to overarching program management.
Join us for these upcoming live events. Catch up with past events via the podcast series or the recorded videos of the events. At any time if you have a question, before, during, or after an event – just let us know. We enjoy hearing from you and assisting you in improving your abilities.
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We record each event and post the video along with the slides or workbook, plus we use the audio for a podcast.
Scheduled for February 24, at 8 am US Pacific time.
Speaker: Chris Jackson
And how does it help me?
Switching systems can be great. The idea is that we can use redundant components to extend the life of a system … and protect the ‘standby’ component from harm until the ‘primary’ component fails. To do this, we need a switch. This often means that we get better reliability than a ‘parallel system’ where both redundant components start wearing out from day one. By protecting the standby component with a switch, reliability can be greatly extended. However, the analysis of a switching system can be challenging. The switch can fail, and the standby component has different reliability characteristics in ‘standby’ and ‘operational’ modes. Many textbooks model switching systems using very basic assumptions to simplify the analysis. But … these assumptions are so inaccurate for most real-world systems that they estimate reliability to be worse than that of a parallel system! This webinar shows you how to model switching (and other complex) systems using Monte Carlo Simulation in Excel … to come up with a ‘perfect’ model to ensure that all that hard work that goes into designing a switching system is not missed by the subsequent analysis!
Scheduled for March 10, 2026, at 9 am US Pacific time.
Speaker: Alexander Bell
Complex systems, such as automobiles, contain many moving parts that can lead to failure from a variety of causes and failure modes. AI can utilize system data recorded over time to automatically alert us to imminent failure and identify root causes.
Decision Trees are a relatively simple and popular AI tool, that can quickly learn and assess key variables and their interactions which contribute to an outcome such as system failure. They are fast to create, easy to interpret and can help us identify failure modes.
In this webinar, we will look at the basics of decision tree modelling and consider a simple demonstration of its application to assess imminent failure in automobiles.
Scheduled for April 14, 2026, at 9 am US Pacific time.
Speaker: Fred Schenkelberg
Did you know that you do not need to be a manager to be a leader. And, many managers are not very good leaders. What does it take to manage and/or lead a reliability improvement effort in an organization. If your organization already produces very reliable products, how do you keep it that way? Likewise, if you recognize the reliability performance could be better, what should you do.
Let’s talk about the difference between management and leadership, and how you can play an effective role as both a manager and a leader focused on improving reliability outcomes. Where to start, how to build a team, and how to get results.
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Wanted to let everyone new to these live events to know that the presentation is scheduled for an hour but afterwards there is always very good discussion. So if you can set aside an extra 15 to 30 minutes afterwards to listen in and contribute. I noticed today that Fred turned off the recording at the one hour mark so the discussion is only available in the live event and not in the recorded version.
Hi Bert, thanks for the comment. I did shut down the recording as I was pretty quiet on the question front. Then Chris did get a few more questions prompting more discussion. Guess it is good reason to make the live event – and a lesson for me to keep recording… cheers, Fred