Understanding the Setting of Expectations
Abstract
Tim and Fred discuss a problem that buyers and suppliers sometimes encounter in new applications: which is the right technical solution?
SOR 110 The Make Versus Buy Decision
08 – Using Review RCM to Improve Plant Performance
Using Review RCM to Improve Plant Performance
Review RCM is a streamlined approach to improving plant performance.
It allows organizations to quickly address ineffective PM programs. How does it achieve this?
By using the operating environment, failure patterns, and P-F interval, we can answer three basic questions:
- Will replacement of part on a known interval or usage reduce the probability of failure?
- Can we see it in the process of failure with sufficient time to respond?
- Is the impact of the failure high enough to warrant the cost of a PM strategy?
These three elements will help us to determine the type of PM strategy that is value-added.
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SOR 109 What About Warranty Charge Backs
What About Warranty Charge Backs
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Tim and Fred discussing warranty charge backs.
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SOR 108 When to Seek Guidance from Management
When to Seek Guidance from Management
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Carl and Fred discussing the nuances of communicating with management.
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SOR 107 Selecting Tools for a Given Challenge
Selecting Tools for a Given Challenge
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Carl and Fred discussing the tool selection process for a given job.
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07 – FMEAs from an Expert’s Point of View with Fred Schenkelberg
FMEAs from an Expert’s Point of View with Fred Schenkelberg
You arrive in the office early Monday morning, and you receive an email from your boss. It is one that you have been dreaded for days.
You have been told that you are participating in a Failure Mode Effect Analysis for the next week.
Failure Mode Effect Analysis is often feared and avoided by many. Mainly because they are not well understood or people have been forced to sit through FMEAs that were not facilitated properly.
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SOR 106 Questions to Ask During an Assessment
Questions to Ask During an Assessment
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Carl and Fred discussing the best ways to conduct an assessment.
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SOR 105 Is Incoming Inspection a Necessary Evil?
Is Incoming Inspection a Necessary Evil?
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Tim and Fred discussing the issues involved with incoming inspection.
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SOR 104 What Happens When You Receive Defective Parts?
What Happens When You Receive Defective Parts?
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Tim and Fred discussing receiving defective parts and the reliance on suppliers for quality.
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06 – What is a FMEA and How Can It Help?
What is an FMEA and How Can It Help?
Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a step-by-step approach for identifying all possible failures in a design, a manufacturing or assembly process.
“Failure modes” means the ways, or modes, in which something might fail.
Failures are any errors or defects, especially ones that affect the customer and can be potential or actual. They typically include the component, the damage or problem with it and the cause of it
“Effects analysis” refers to studying the consequences of those failures.
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SOR 103 Two Reliability Problems Solved Different Ways
Two Reliability Problems Solved Different Ways
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Adam and Fred discussing a couple of interesting reliability problems and their solutions.
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SOR 102 Our Go-to Reliability Engineering Tools
Our Go-to Reliability Engineering Tools
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Adam and Fred discussing the role of statistical tools in everyday reliability engineering.
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Understanding and Controlling Process Variation
Understanding and Controlling Process Variation
Let’s discuss sources of variation and how to measure, monitor, and control processes to minimize the differences from one part to the next.
Statistical process control (SPC) is a set of tools that provide insights into the changing nature of processes.
05 – What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?
What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?
Does the age of equipment increase the probability of failure?
That was the conventional wisdom until Nowlan & Heap discovered that components have six different types of failure patterns:
- Bathtub – 4%
- Wear Out – 2%
- Fatigue Related – 5%
- Rapid Increase to Random – 7%
- Random Level of Failure – 14%
- Infant mortality – 68%
This means only 11% of failures are age related… 89% are not age related – so why do PM Programs still rely on time-based maintenance (Replacements, Overhauls) they only address 11% of failures.
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