Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
This episode is a complement to articles and podcasts available on the Industrial Metallurgists website https://www.imetllc.com/.
The organization you’d expect to offer an authoritative definition of Quality lets us down. While disappointing, we continue our journey. Listen to see where we end up.
The host is Keith Fong, a consultant, teacher, and coach with over 20 years of experience in quality and continuous improvement.
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When you design a product, you consider the field reliability. Use environment usually comes to mind first. Do you also consider the stresses it undergoes from its creation to the end user’s hands?
We talk about designing for reliability, accounting for not just the product’s use but also its journey from production to the consumer. As a part of our in-depth discussion, we’ll look into the role of various environments – field and production – in affecting a product’s reliability.
By the end of this episode, you’ll see field reliability as including the various stresses acting on a product from its inception. So, buckle up as we embark on this journey to rethink reliability during design.
Does making things better motivate you?
The tools and concepts of quality are powerful weapons for improvement, but they require understanding a wide range of topics for effective use.
This podcast “Way of the Quality Warrior” will explore those ideas and use lessons from actual situations to gain the understanding we seek as professionals in business, engineering, and manufacturing.
The host is Keith Fong, a consultant, teacher, and coach with over 20 years of experience in quality and continuous improvement.
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Carl and Fred discussing some of the biggest reliability mistakes they have seen in their careers, and the lessons learned from those mistakes.
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DigitalituM is a leading provider of cutting-edge digitalization tools for the manufacturing sector. With their expertise and dedication, they empower businesses to embrace the potential of AI, AR, and VR to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and boost overall reliability.
Chris and Fred discuss how much a reliability engineer (potentially like you) … is worth. Want to know?
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Since 1976, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) has provided engineering solutions that deliver lasting results for private industry, public entities, government organizations and the U.S. military.
We have a reliability target for our system. But we’re not meeting it.
To avoid this scenario, what is something we can do in early development?
When we’re figuring out our concept, we can better learn about our options. We can work with Reliability Engineers to understand what we know, the risk in what we don’t know, and to prioritize reliability of the modules to be able to meet the reliability of our whole system.
We talk about using reliability allocation to help us choose reliability goals for modules of our product design. And we talk about its limitations.
When first charged with designing, conducting, and analyzing an ALT, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as accelerated life testing. Along with the assigned task was the expectation that I would learn what was necessary to design, conduct, and analyze a suitable ALT. I like those kinds of tasks – one where I must learn to succeed. [Read more…]
We all strive to build products that are reliable. If you’re listening to our watching this podcast, chances are you are concerned about or at least interested in reliability. Where does reliability start? Who is responsible for reliability? What types of reliability testing can be performed? My guest on this episode will help answer these and other reliability-based questions.
My guest today is Dr. Christopher Jackson. Dr Chris Jackson is a leader, engineer and logistic specialist who has helped many organizations work towards realizing business goals through improving the reliability of their products and processes. He is cofounder of online training company IS4, founder of Acuitis Reliability, established the Center for the Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Systems (SARAS) at UCLA after retiring as a lieutenant colonel having served 17 years in the Australian Army, where he was the Senior Reliability Engineer. Dr Jackson completed his PhD in Reliability Engineering at the University of Maryland in 2011.
Dr Jackson authored multiple reliability and management textbooks and teaches both professional education courses and post-graduate courses. Industries he has helped range from small satellites through to military vehicles. Dr Jackson is a Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) through the American Society of Quality (ASQ), a member of the Institute of Engineers, Australia (MIEAust) and a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng).
Chris was a guest on this podcast back in June of 2020 (episide 45) and I’m thrilled to have him back as my guest today.
Dr. Jackson’s Contact Information:
chris.jackson@acuitas.com
https://www.acuitas.com
Dianna and Fred discussing how there are so many tools that are available for quality and reliability applications, and approaches to take when figuring out what to use.
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Chris and Fred discuss the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) … A US Department of Defense vehicle that can perhaps teach us a lot about reliability (especially in the field of military and defense).
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