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Communication

Recorded webinars on the topic of Communication

Communicating is how we work with others.

Conducting data analysis that reveals essential information is useless unless others also understand its meaning. Doing great work is for naught until others understand and use the results. Communicating your work, ideas, and proposals requires skill.

Being able to listen, present, question, and facilitate represents just a subset of the communication skills you need to be an effective engineer.

These webinars related to communication skills focus on the details and motivation to improve your ability to communicate with your peers, managers, stakeholders, and customers well.

Webinars on Communication Skills

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Quality

Recorded webinars on the topic of Quality

Quality as a field of engineering

Quality engineering and management have many roles, from being a voice of the customer to improving the design’s ability to meet customer expectations and improving manufacturing and assembly processes.

While quality and reliability engineering are related and use similar or the same methods at times, they are distinct. One way to define quality engineering is by the 14 quality characteristics, of which reliability is one characteristic. Another way, is reliability is everything quality is, just over time.

These webinars related to quality explore the unique focus and methods used in quality engineering. Plus, how quality and reliability are related and support each other’s objectives.

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Maintenance

Recorded webinars on the topic of Maintenance

Maintenance is more than repairs

Maintenance requires more than a toolbox. It involves equipment designed for maintainability, plus tools, knowledge, measurement, and diagnostic systems, plus more.

Maintenance and asset management include corrective and preventive activities, condition-based monitoring, spare part forecasting, planning & scheduling, kitting, and wrench time. Reliability-centered maintenance, detailed root cause analysis, availability, throughput, product quality, and more focus on finding the right balance for effective maintenance programs.

These webinars related to maintenance examine the range of activities from detection, restoration, improvements, and prevention, along with related strategies.

Webinars on Maintenance

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Standards

Recorded webinars on the topic of Standards

Standards provide guidance, and more

Industry standards provide a documented set of definitions, procedures, and criteria. They may or may not be useful.

A lot of what we do has been done by others and, in some cases, documented in a standard. This can save us time, yet not all standards answer what we need to accomplish. Understanding standards and what they can and cannot do enables us to use these references effectively.

These webinars related to standards explore the range of available standards, plus the various motivations, benefits, and limitations they may pose.

Webinars on Standards

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Safety

Recorded webinars on the topic of Safety

Safety is the Result of Constant Effort

Sometimes, when something goes wrong or fails, people may be harmed. Since reliability engineering deals with failures, safety if top of mind, as it should be.

Safety considerations include how the product works and what happens when the product fails. Plus, we consider the safety of our product’s materials, assembly, transport, and disposal. Furthermore, we must consider the safety aspects of our experiments and testing.

These webinars related to safety explore how to identify, prioritize, and mitigate safety issues. We also look at how to communicate safety risks.

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HALT

Recorded webinars on the topic of HALT

HALT is a Failure Discovery Process

HALT is a technique to quickly reveal weaknesses within a product. It uses a step-stress approach to apply one or more stresses such that we can identify defects, anomalies, or failure mechanisms. Once identified, the team can than improve the design to eliminate or mitigate such failures.

Implementing HALT is not done by following a standard recipe for testing. It is done by first understanding the relevant stresses to apply for a specific product. To identify weaknesses, then followed by detailed failure analysis. The team can then determine if and how to address the issues.

These webinars related to HALT explore how to plan and conduct HALT, where it fits in the development process, and when to use HALT and when not to.

Webinars on HALT

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Risk

Recorded webinars on the topic of Risk

Risk is Uncertainty in the Outcome

Risk exists since we cannot foresee the future very well. How will AI change our jobs and life? How well will the product launch go? Will the outcome of our decision be as expected?

Risk and risk management is the endeavor to identify, prioritize, and address risks in order to minimize the uncertainty of desired outcomes. There are many methods that we can employ within a risk management framework.

These webinars related to risk explore what risk is and best practices to identify and address risks. The webinars also closely examine topics that currently pose significant risks.

Webinars on Value

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Failures

Recorded webinars on the topic of Failures

Failures Happen, Learn from Them

Reliability engineering tends to focus on understanding and minimizing the occurrence of failures.

A successful team anticipates and eliminates or mitigates failures. All teams react to failures. Most have systems to identify, count, and prioritize failures. Using the appropriate methods to understand and manage failures assists the team as they resolve design, supply chain, and process related failures.

These webinars related to failures explore the details of specific failure mechanisms, failure models, identification and prioritization methods, along with how to extract useful information from each failure occurrence.

Webinars on Failures

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Modeling

Recorded webinars on the topic of Modeling

Reliability Modeling is a means to understand your system

Reliability modeling typically permits a deeper understanding and enables the team to identify opportunities for reliability improvement.

Modeling may focus on a specific failure mechanism, such as with physics of failure models. Or, it may represent a complex and highly available system. From reliability block diagrams to finite element analysis, each method has strengths and weaknesses. Understanding the range of model types will allow you to select, build, and analyze the right model at the right time.

These webinars relate to modeling explore how to use the wide range of possible models to best add value and achieve reliability objectives.

Webinars on Modeling

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Data Analysis

Recorded webinars on the topic of data analysis

Data Analysis is letting the data sing

Reliability engineering involves data thus requires the analysis of that data.

A spreadsheet full of data is little more than a list of numbers or text. Revealing relationships, interactions, and projects enables the data to help us understand the the world a little better.

The webinars related to data analysis explore when and how to conduct data analysis. We also explore how to select the right approach and best practices to communicate the process and results.

Webinars on Data Analysis

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Accendo Reliability

Recorded webinars on the topic of Accendo Reliability

The site for your professional development

Reliability engineering, like any engineering, has the need for continuous learning. You may or may not have enjoyed formal education in the field of reliability engineering. Even with a reliability engineering degree, you, like everyone else, will need to continue do research, learn, and development your skills.

It seems that new technologies, materials, and processes are created daily. Thus, we have new challenges or new opportunities to learn every day. Accendo Reliability provides a wide range of professional development options, and we attempt to help you stay aware of all of your options from many sources.

These webinars related to professional development via Accendo Reliability or in general across industry.

Webinars on Accendo Reliability

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Suppliers

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MTBF

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DFR

Recorded webinars on the topic of design for reliability

Reliability Occurs at the Point of Decision

Engineers and managers make decisions that impact reliability performance. The set of Design for Reliability (DFR) methods intends to influence all of those decisions.

The set of methods that can be executed in the design and manufacturing stages of the product development process. Examples include such as failure mode and effects analysis, physics of failure modeling, design margin analysis, and highly accelerated life testing. The focus of the DFR methods should be on high-risk and new concepts.

These webinars related to DFR and the deliberate creation of an item considering and facilitating its capability to meet reliability goals. DFR provides a set of tools and expectations to enable design decisions that address reliability performance objectives.

Webinars on DFR

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Statistics

Recorded webinars on the topic of statistics

Statistics is the Language of Variation

The practice of reliability engineering requires dealing with the real world. Thus, we need to model and understand variation.

The range of statistical methods of value to reliability engineering include basic data plotting, comparisons, regression analysis, life data analysis, non-parametic methods, and design of experiments, to mention just a few. These methods are useful to characterize a process, inform decisions, estimate reliability performance, and more.

These webinars related to statistics explore how to identify and use the appropriate statistical method. The webinars range from introductions to types of statistical methods, while others dive deep on applying a specific method.

Webinars on Statistics

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