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Jezdimir Knezevic of the MIRCE Akademy published a paper with the title above and I have a few comments.
In the article, Jezdimir suggests that the statistical approach to describing the world about us is fundamental flaws and not inherently useful for our use. He compares a mathematical/statistical approach to a scientific approach and finds the stats wanting.
Let’s take a critical look at the topic of this paper and conclusions. [Read more…]
Kirk and Fred discussing how his career path led to being a reliability engineer and meeting a working with Gregg Hobbs. Ph.D. the reliability leader that gave him a new perspective on HALT and HASS.
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Kirk and Fred discussing ways to find intermittent system failures.
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Kirk and Fred discussing a real case of product failure for a OEM sub-supplier and determining how to isolate the cause
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Kirk and Fred discussing the value of getting field failures returned for failure analysis and best practices in determining the causes.
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Testing is expensive. Reliability testing is often complex. Let’s break down the basics of planning and conducting reliability testing that provides meaningful results cost-effectively and timely. Let’s do testing right.
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Carl and Fred discussing the question: Is it more important to calculate reliability or to achieve reliability?
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of long term reliability, intrinsic wear-out, and the rapid improvement of new features and benefits that motivate retirement of older devices such as in smartphones.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the long, ever-impending death of the outdated reliability prediction handbook and its progeny.
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As companies around the globe look to improve equipment reliability I can’t help but think of the Technicians and Craftspeople I meet after a conference presentation. As they step up to introduce themselves to comment on the presentation some will often say “I really liked your presentation but I don’t think our management would ever support a program like this. What you are doing makes a lot of sense but we just don’t have the people and our operations managers don’t understand maintenance and reliability.” [Read more…]
This course is exclusively offered to Lockheed Martin employees.
If already registered for the course, please login to view course materials.
Note: These online classes will be recorded and you will be able to access them later even if you cannot make it to the Live class session. This means you may watch them again in case you forget something, miss a class, or can’t make it one day. Saturdays may be scheduled with the instructor for extra sessions or make-up classes if needed.
There are two sections with different dates/times available. If there are a total of less then 20 students the two sections will be combined.
Section 1: Mondays & Thursdays, September 10 – November 8, 2018
Section 2: Tuesdays & Fridays, September 11 – November 9, 2018
All online class sessions are held at 3:00 p.m – 5:00 p.m US Pacific time.
Note: we will skip the week of October 22 thru 26 as Fred has a prior commitment to present at a conference. If there is technical difficulty or unavoidable conflicts and we do not hold a session, Fred will work with the affected students to make up the session at a convenient time.
Each section is limited to a minimum of 5 and maximum of 20 students and we will combine the sections to meet minimum class size.
We may decide to hold additional sessions for Q&A or discussion of sample exam problems depending on interest and scheduling. You are always welcome to email or call Fred at any time to discuss topics within the CQE Body of Knowledge.
Course Details
Prerequisites: Please see above.
Hardware: A basic statistical calculator. Calculators with alpha keyboards or with stored memory are not permitted in the exam.
You must have access to a computer capable of viewing the online classes which is using GotoMeeting.
If you haven’t recently attended a GotoMeeting meeting before, try the following link:
Test your connection: https://support.logmeininc.com/gotomeeting/get-ready
We will schedule a couple ‘let’s make sure this works’ sessions to test and get familiar with the GotoMeeting software that we’ll be using for the class sessions. Details to follow on dates and times for the get the setup meetings.
Software: N/A – as you will not have software tools available during the exam.
Required Materials:
Suggested Materials: CQE Electronic Exam CD, is also available on the Quality Council of Indiana website, and similar products are available from The ASQ website under The Quality Press section.
Learning Method: Lectures, teams, case studies, hands on-line approach
Class Time: 32 hours (Every class will be available to watch again in the Archive)
Class Size: 20 participants max per class, class is held online
Facilities: This is an online course, you must provide your own capable computer with internet access in order to participate in this class; you will have the opportunity to ask detailed questions, participate in virtual whiteboard activities by drawing or highlighting problems and questions, access to polls, chat and microphone Q&A, and screen sharing capability.
Data and the analyses that use the data can be tricky to manage at best, let along extremely difficult.
In this last post of the series on using the maintenance data you have, Fred and James will answer many of the common questions asked about data and the analyses. [Read more…]
Let’s face it, your technicians have been entering data into the CMMS for years, but you haven’t been able to use it to make improvements. Is it because the data isn’t codified or it doesn’t have the right data points? Generally, this is how most maintenance managers will view their data, but it is incorrect. The CMMS does have data that you can use almost immediately. [Read more…]
Although I’ve had a profile for about six years, I really only got engaged and active on LinkedIn a little over a year ago. And since then I’ve been compiling a list of the Top Engineers to Follow on LinkedIn.
With “marketers” and “influencers” in every corner of LinkedIn, I caught myself wondering, “Where are all my engineers at?”
And I have to tell you it felt pretty lonely.
Don’t get me wrong – there are some AMAZING, diverse, non-engineers that I’ve met and learned from via LinkedIn. [Read more…]
I want my customers to be successful, every one of them. Yet there are times I can see the writing on the wall and I know as hard as I might try to show them a clear path to what it takes to be successful they have their own plan. Some of them are so complex that people become confused just trying to make sense of them, and others get so hung up in the minutiae of even the simplest of steps like listing a 3 part failure mode they will word-smith themselves to a point where folks just give up. I find myself asking “why do people have to make what is really so simple into something that appears to be complex?” [Read more…]
