Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Kirk and Fred discussing the continued need to change much of the activities in reliability engineering in the goal of ensuring and improving the reliability of electronics and electro-mechanical systems.
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Tim interviews Dr. Mohammad Modarres about the Center for Risk and Reliability at the U of Maryland and the value of an advanced degree in reliability.
Some products and systems are just dangerous, inherently. Understanding inherent safety-related risks permits a team to design out or mitigate those risks. Hazard analysis is the systematic process of identifying and controlling safety risks.
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When you are striving towards excellence in maintenance and reliability, there are a lot of activities that you have to perform to avoid any risks. The asset management is one of the top activities that goes on in the organizations and there can be certain risks involved while performing different operations in this phase. That’s why you need better insights to foresee the risks and try to mitigate them effectively. This is where operational risk management framework helps you to reduce and control the risks. You can identify the operational risks earlier and perform regulatory compliance more safely than ever.
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Kirk and Fred discuss the history of our Speaking of Reliability podcasts and the changes needed in approaches to reliability engineering and the need for leaders to continue practical and efficient reliability development.
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Are the stereotypes of either truly indicative of reliability engineers in ways that can hurt your organization?
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In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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Adam and Fred discussing the challenge and best practices for reporting on product and program issues.
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Adam and Fred discussing the disconnect between project plans for significant reliability activities and the common compromise of minimal reliability analysis and testing in a program.
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Tim interviews Dr. Kishor Trivedi about his teaching and writing in the area of reliability and available engineering.
In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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Andre and Fred discussing some of the ways an ALT can lead you astray, quickly.
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Andre and Fred discussing the need to understand failures mechanisms using a combination of analysis and physics.
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There has always been room for improvement when it comes to reliability and future holds a few surprise to take the predictive maintenance practices to a new level. That new level is prescriptive maintenance. That word is going to be more common in the next few years in the reliability and maintenance industry. Prescriptive maintenance can be defined as a concept that not only includes detecting degrading in the assets well ahead, it also prescribes a solution to mitigate that problem. There are multiple scenarios that you run here to know the potential outcomes and then make a decision about the operations and maintenance of the systems.
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James and Fred discussing the necessity of keeping equipment clean and orderly.
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