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RiM 27: A Maintainer’s View on Maintenance Decisions and Life in the Navy

RiM 27: A Maintainer’s View on Maintenance Decisions and Life in the Navy

A Maintainer’s View on Maintenance Decisions and Life in the Navy

In this episode, I speak to Grahame Paton who worked in the Royal Australian Navy for over 30 years and currently works as a Reliability Engineer. He shares his view as an Electronic Maintenance Technician on the importance of involving maintainers when making decisions on maintenance changes.
We also spoke about the wonderful life the Navy has to offer, and its pros and cons but as Grahame says he wouldn’t have it any other way and is very proud and happy that he served for 30 years.

If you want to get in touch with Grahame Paton, you can message him through Linkedin.

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All views expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the opinions or perspectives of any organization, company, or entity I may be associated with. It’s important to note that the content shared here reflects my thoughts, experiences, and insights.

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QDD 136 Welcome Back! New, Upcoming Opportunities with FMEA and Quality during Design

QDD 136 Welcome Back! New, Upcoming Opportunities with FMEA and Quality during Design

Welcome Back! New, Upcoming Opportunities with FMEA and Quality during Design

Quality during Design isn’t just an add-on; it’s a fundamental aspect that drives innovation, efficiency, and customer satisfaction!

Welcome back from our brief hiatus!

One of the highlights of this episode is the introduction of an upcoming FMEA course on Udemy, with The Manufacturing Academy. FMEA, or Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, is a systematic method for evaluating our offerings to identify where and how they might fail and to assess the relative impact of different failures.  Dianna’s approach to FMEA is not only about adhering to traditional methods but also about addressing the criticisms and limitations often associated with them. This course promises to be a fresh take on risk-based decision-making. You’ll hear more about it when it is released!

Moreover, the episode touches upon the ‘Quality During Design Fast Track’ program, which is currently in the works and open to listener feedback. The initiative aims to harness quality tools in novel ways, even before a design concept is fully fleshed out. It emphasizes the importance of early input from cross-functional teams to gather requirements and user needs, thereby making the design process more effective and efficient. This program is system-based and affects how products and services are developed, leading to more thoughtful, user-centric designs.

Listeners are invited: please take brief survey to help Dianna with aspects of these upcoming courses and more.  www.qualityduringdesign.com/survey

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Risk 101: Future of Quality

Risk 101: Future of Quality

Risk 101: Future of Quality

podcast episode with speaker Greg Hutchins

We’ve evangelized for more than 20 years that the future of quality and its related disciplines, including reliability, will be risk-focused. Why? We’re living in a time of uncertainty and risk. Understanding and managing risk is important for quality and reliability professionals solving tough problems and making hard decisions. [Read more…]

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MC 022 Product Launch Formula

MC 022 Product Launch Formula

Product Launch Formula

In this episode, Michael discusses different aspects of product development, product launch, and post-launch where materials engineering will improve product success.

Developing and launching a product can be stressful – there are many decisions, problems to overcome, and risks to mitigate. While we’d like the process to go smoothly and be able to calmly meet deadlines, this usually is not the case – things we didn’t consider pop up or things that shouldn’t have been a problem become a problem.

Many of the decisions, problems, and risks are associated with the materials used in a product. After all, a product is ultimately an assembly of materials that have been shaped, manipulated, and modified. So, making the effort to engineer the materials will have an impact on product cost, performance, and reliability,
and on manufacturing throughput and quality.

To learn more about successful product development, launch, and improvement check these out

https://youtu.be/D_rtl7TNrQE

https://www.imetllc.com/product-launch-formula/

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WQW 015: The Fundamental Defects in Quality Methods Training

WQW 015: The Fundamental Defects in Quality Methods Training

The Fundamental Defects in Quality Methods Training

What if the most common training practices in your field actually undermine the topic you’re teaching? In Quality, we have exactly that situation in training the tools and methods of Quality.

In this episode of the Way of the Quality Warrior podcast, we consider 4 common problems in the deployment of Quality tools and methods: the sink or swim school, overselling benefits and under-teaching weaknesses, using report formats as the procedure, and lack of teaching expertise.

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What is WeiBayes Analysis?

What is WeiBayes Analysis?

What is WeiBayes Analysis?

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

Some of us might have heard of the Weibull distribution. Some of us might have heard about Weibull analysis. Weibull analysis uses the Weibull distribution to help us visualize failure data in a really useful way. We can ‘see’ if our product is wearing out. We can see if our product is wearing in. We can estimate how many things will have failed by certain times. We can do all manners of other wonderful ‘reliability engineering’ things through Weibull Analysis. But then there is ‘WeiBayes Analysis.’ It combines Weibull and Bayesian analysis (… I know that doesn’t mean much to most people). It can be really useful if we know ‘how’ something we are testing fails. Because if we do, then we can essentially feed a certain parameter into the analysis to help it on its way. This means that we don’t need as much data (always a good thing in reliability engineering). But there are quite a few catches. Interested in learning about Weibayes analysis? Join us for this webinar.
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RM 136: Environmentally Responsible / Sustainable Conformal Coating with Dr. Cassandra Zentner

RM 136: Environmentally Responsible / Sustainable Conformal Coating with Dr. Cassandra Zentner

Environmentally Responsible / Sustainable Conformal Coating with Dr. Cassandra Zentner

We covered the topic of ultrathin conformal coatings back in November. We covered various conformal coating materials from traditional acrylics and silicones to ultrathin parylene coatings. What other coating materials are available? Where do these types of coatings fit within specific applications?

Where do health and safety, environmental concerns, and sustainability programs fit in with a coating process?

To answer these other questions, I invited Dr. Cassandra Zentner, VP of Health and Environment at Actnano, a manufacturer of coating materials, to the program.

Cassandra earned a BA from Oberlin College and a PhD in organic materials chemistry from MIT.

Cassandra’s Contact Information:
Dr. Cassandra Zentner
VP of Health and Environment
Actnano
cassandra.zentner@actnano.com
actnano.com

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SOR 932 K out of N Systems

SOR 932 K out of N Systems

K out of N Systems

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Chris and Fred discuss about this thing called a ‘k out of n’ system … and how most people don’t really know about how they contribute to system reliability. Do you know what the reliability curve of a ‘k out of n’ system looks like when compared to series or parallel systems? Don’t know what these systems are? Listen to this podcast!
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AP 001: Asset Performance in the era of Artificial Intelligence

AP 001: Asset Performance in the era of Artificial Intelligence

Asset Performance in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

We’re excited to bring you the first episode of our insightful podcast series! In this episode, we delve into the fascinating world of Asset Performance in the era of Artificial Intelligence, featuring a captivating interview with Sven Strassburg from IBM.

Join our host, Wim Vancauwenberghe, Conference Director of Asset Performance, as he engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Sven Strassburg, IBM Principle Solution Architect. Explore the dynamic intersection of AI, collaborative techniques, and asset optimization, all set against the backdrop of an evolving workforce and aging assets. [Read more…]

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WQW 014: Parallels of Addiction Treatment and Continuous Improvement

WQW 014: Parallels of Addiction Treatment and Continuous Improvement

Parallels of Addiction Treatment and Continuous Improvement

The work of a Quality Warrior is much more than the Quality and Continuous Improvement tools like Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Design of Experiments, process behavior charting, and problem solving, to list a few.

The Stages of Change model developed by James Prochaska, John Norcross, and Carlo DiClemente for the treatment of addictions provides a very useful guide for those of us in Quality and Continuous Improvement. We are attempting to guide change efforts constantly.

 

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