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RM 115: Making Sense of “Big Data”

RM 115: Making Sense of “Big Data”

Making Sense of “Big Data”

You don’t have to be in the tech industry you understand importance and value of data. Industries have always collected various sets of data, first manually and, in modern times, automatically. The volume of data has historically been limited to the ability to capture and store it. Recent advances in technology have vastly increased the ability to capture and store data. The industry 4.0 movement has fueled both of desire and requirement to capture data.

We have created a “be careful what you ask for” scenario as we now are capturing data at an unprecedented rate but frequently lack the ability to discern and analyze all of our newly captured data.

My guest today, Luisa Herrmann, Head of Product for Arch Systems, is helping to transform “big data” into useful data. Luisa has 10 years of experience in Product Management and Product Marketing, launching products, building teams, and scaling organizations in the data software space. She was most recently the Head of Product at Cape Privacy, an encrypted machine learning company, and before that she was the Head of Product at expert.ai, an NLP company. She has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and lives in the Boston area.

Luisa Herrmann may be contacted here:
lherrmann@archsys.io

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SOR 843 Hidden Reliability Wins

SOR 843 Hidden Reliability Wins

Hidden Reliability Wins

Abstract

Dianna and Fred discussing hidden reliability wins: when reliability efforts go right, things don’t go wrong. So then, how can reliability engineers quantify their work?
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SOR 842 Working on the Right Things

SOR 842 Working on the Right Things

Working on the Right Things

Abstract

Philip and Fred discussing what should reliability engineers be working on that are the right things.
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by Dianna Deeney Leave a Comment

QDD 099 Crucial Conversations in Engineering, with Shere Tuckey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

QDD 099 Crucial Conversations in Engineering, with Shere Tuckey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Crucial Conversations in Engineering, with Shere Tuckey (A Chat with Cross-Functional Experts)

Dianna Deeney interviews Shere Tuckey about Crucial Conversations® in an engineering environment: how to prepare for and have difficult conversations with peers, managers, and everyone else. Shere gave a conference presentation about Crucial Conversations® titled, “How to be Persuasive Rather than Abrasive.”

This interview is part of our series, “A Chat with Cross Functional Experts”. Our focus is speaking with people that are typically part of a cross-functional team for new product development. We discuss their viewpoints and perspectives regarding new products, the values they bring to new product development, and how they’re involved and work with product design engineering teammates.

About Shere

Shere is a Branch Chief in the Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. She is responsible for advocating, planning, budgeting, organizing, and directing the execution of a high-priority technology development portfolio as well as direct supervision and management of all personnel within the branch. Over the last twenty-nine years, she has managed twelve different teams across many engineering disciplines from shock physics experimentation to weapon effects modeling and simulation.

Shere has taken a special interest in leadership, mentoring, and helping teams communicate effectively. After being asked to serve as the Dean of Leadership for her organization’s workforce development program, she became certified to teach the Crucial Conversations® course as a foundational element of leadership development.

She has taught five highly rated classes to high level managers, junior employees, and everyone in between. The positive feedback received from these classes and the course’s universal applicability, has motivated Shere to share this knowledge in as many forums as possible.

Shere and Dianna talk about:

  • what makes a dialogue a Crucial Conversation®
  • how she discovered the Crucial Conversation® framework
  • why she trains others at her work in the Crucial Conversations® model and champions its use

Shere also shares stories of success.

Listen to take your communications skills to another level, at work and everywhere else.

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SOR 841 Expectations

SOR 841 Expectations

Expectations

Abstract

Philip and Fred discussing how setting expectations impact reliability engineering tasks and results.
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by George Williams Leave a Comment

PR S04E06: Cody Jackson

PR S04E06: Cody Jackson

Cody Jackson

We have a very special guest, Cody Jackson, the owner of EffectivePdM, who will be sharing valuable insights on how to avoid costly unplanned downtime, eliminate electrical hazards, and transform your facilities into streamlined profitability machines through executing PdM inspections. 🛠️ Tune in now to learn more!

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SOR 840 Regulators and Risk

SOR 840 Regulators and Risk

Regulators and Risk

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss the age-old problem or regulation. If the regulators are not the adults in the room, then we have a problem.
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance Tagged with: autonomous vehicles, boeing 737, mcas, regulators, risk

by Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., P.E. Leave a Comment

MC 006 You Have to Think Small to Understand Metallurgy

MC 006 You Have to Think Small to Understand Metallurgy

You Have to Think Small to Understand Metallurgy

(Apologies up front – I recorded this episode using the wrong microphone. So, the sound quality is fair. I’ll do better next time.)

There are microscopic structures and processes in metals that have large effects on metal properties, performance, and reliability. Being able to conceptualize these structures and processes goes a long way toward understanding the behavior of metals and the effects of mechanical processing and heat treating on metal properties. In this episode I discuss some of the microscopic structures and their effects on metal properties.

I also discuss recent projects and a bonus at the end – some details about my recent trip to Seward, Alaska

Michael Pfeifer is a metallurgist and metals engineer. He works with design and manufacturing clients to help with component materials selection, manufacturing process development, supplier evaluation, failure analysis and root cause analysis.

He received a B.S. and M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from   University  of Illinois and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and  Engineering  from  Northwestern University. He is a Professional  Engineer, licensed in Illinois.

He’s wrote a book – Materials Enabled  Designs. It teaches how to select   materials that optimize product  performance, reliability, and cost.

For more information about Michael go to https://www.imetllc.com/about/

Industrial Metallurgists offer metallurgy and metals engineering   consulting and training. The training is geared to design,   manufacturing, and quality engineers. More information about Industrial   Metallurgists’ services and training is at https://www.imetllc.com/

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QDD 098 Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development

QDD 098 Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development

Challenges Getting Team Input in Concept Development

This is the wrap-up, final episode of our series – the 7th episode in our series about generating ideas with a team toward action.

Since the start of 2023, we focused on a few quality tools and methods to both generate ideas and then choose which idea to pursue.

We’ve talked about:

  • Changing our scope to a closed world, to failures or questions, or design heuristics
  • Brainstorming within a problem-solving framework
  • Grouping many ideas and then further refining them
  • Prioritizing many ideas by comparing them to 2 criteria or by using team voting
  • Choosing an idea by using paired comparisons or a structured decision-making solution like DMRCS
  • Giving individuals a process to create a full design concept

We also interviewed an expert in brainstorming and learned the importance of planning for teamwork, including choosing our team.

What have we learned through the last few weeks? Let’s highlight take-aways and next steps.

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by Christopher Jackson Leave a Comment

What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)?

What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)?

What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)?

podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson

Some of you have heard of HALT (and I don’t mean someone asking you to stop). HALT is a very powerful form of testing to really help us improve the robustness and reliability of new products. So what is HALT? HALT is a targeted test strategy to stress your amazing new product to (and beyond) it’s limits. Which means HALT will break your product (or prototype). Over and over again. Some people ask ‘so what … of course it was going to break when you pushed it that hard?’ But there is a method to this madness. And many organizations have used HALT to create amazing new products that are robust and reliable very quickly (with competitors struggling to understand why). Want to learn more? See you at this webinar!
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by Christopher Jackson Leave a Comment

SOR 839 First Steps with Data

SOR 839 First Steps with Data

First Steps with Data

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss what is the first thing with you do when someone gives you lots of information. What do you do?
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance Tagged with: Data, Data Analysis, data corruption, data trust

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

SOR 838 Basic Risk Management

SOR 838 Basic Risk Management

Basic Risk Management

Abstract

Greg and Fred discussing how to set up a risk assessment program.
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Filed Under: Speaking Of Reliability: Friends Discussing Reliability Engineering Topics | Warranty | Plant Maintenance Tagged with: risk management

by Dianna Deeney Leave a Comment

QDD 097 Brainstorming within Design Sprints

QDD 097 Brainstorming within Design Sprints

Brainstorming within Design Sprints

We’re in our 6th episode into our series about generating ideas with our team toward action. The first two episodes were all about idea generation. The 3rd through 5th episodes was about using Quality Tools to help us group, explore, prioritize, and decide on an idea.

There’s one more method to consider in this series: a design sprint.

A design sprint utilizes all of these things we’ve been talking about. We talk about the book Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days and how these ideas fit together.

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RM 114: The Remarkable Return of the Post-Reflow Cleaning Process

RM 114: The Remarkable Return of the Post-Reflow Cleaning Process

The Remarkable Return of the Post-Reflow Cleaning Process

On this show, we’ve discussed many aspects of the Electronics assembly process. We talked about reflow, thermal management, printing, soldering materials, additives, and so much more. What do all these topics have in common? When done correctly, they all contribute to the reliability of circuit assemblies.

Today, we’re going to dive into the subject of cleaning circuit assemblies after reflow. For many assemblers, the cleaning process was replaced by the use of no clean flux technology. Time and technology have eroded the concept of allowing all residues to remain on the assembly. Today, residue caused failures are such a concern, that IPC recently and radically changed the way circuit assemblies are considered to be clean.

My guests today are Sal Sparacino and Eric Camden. Sal is Director of Sales at Zestron Americas, located in Manassas Virginia. Zestron is a manufacturer of cleaning chemicals for the electronics industry. Eric is Lead Investigator for Foresite, an analytical laboratory based in Kokomo Indiana. Eric, is the guy you call when things go wrong. Together with my experience as a cleaning equipment manufacturer, we’ll discuss how cleaning contributes to increased reliability, and we’ll review the reasons cleaning has returned as a mainstream assembly process.

Guest Contact Info:
Sal Sparacino
sal.sparacino@zestronusa.com
https://www.zestron.com

Eric Camden
ericc@foresiteinc.com
https://www.foresiteinc.com

 

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SOR 837 Checking Assumptions

SOR 837 Checking Assumptions

Checking Assumptions

Abstract

Greg and Fred discussing how assumptions in reliability and quality engineering are highly critical.  We all know what assume can stand for:  make an ‘ass of u and me.’
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