Manager and Leader
Abstract
Greg and Fred discuss the importance of management and leadership. They cover the similarities and differences between the two.
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SOR 775 Manager and Leader
PR Reliability Sherpa Corner: Industry 4.0
Reliability Sherpa Corner: Industry 4.0
George Williams and Ramesh Gulati discuss Industry 4.0!
SOR 774 Why Do Networking
Why Do Networking
Abstract
Greg and Fred discuss the importance and challenges of networking.
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QDD 065 Prioritizing Technical Requirements with a House of Quality
Prioritizing Technical Requirements with a House of Quality
As a design engineer, you’re tasked with translating vague customer statements into something technical and measurable. And you also need to identify what requirements are important: filtering the “must meet” requirements against the “should have” requirements. And, finally, you need to do this with your cross-functional team.
What if you miss something important?
It’s difficult. There is a method that we can use. Let’s talk about the House of Quality and how you can use it no matter where you work.
Reliability and Maintenance
Reliability and Maintenance
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
Both reliability and maintenance activities work to reduce failures and downtime. Perfect reliability of a system would eliminate the need for maintenance. Perfect maintenance would keep even poorly designed (reliability-wise) operating.
Together, the work of reliability and maintenance professionals can achieve more than each team working separately. Each brings a set of insights and skills to the conversation. Working together means improving the design of a system so it’s easier to maintain. It also means the maintenance teams’ day-to-day observations provide meaningful information to the reliability team.
RM 099: A Conversation about the IPC Cleanliness Standard & How to Comply with Graham Naisbitt
A Conversation about the IPC Cleanliness Standard & How to Comply with Graham Naisbitt
Today, we’re going to talk about cleanliness testing of post-reflowed circuit assemblies. In late 2018, IPC shocked the electronic assembly community by introducing an amendment to section 8 of the J-STD-001G. This amendment radically changed the way industry determines cleanliness. Now, assemblers must prove their assemblies are clean enough not to experience electro-chemical migration events which would cause the assembly to fail.
This new process of obtaining objective evidence has been met with a considerable degree of confusion. To help clear up the confusion, I invited Graham Naisbitt to be my guest. Graham is an IEC 1906 Lord Kelvin Award Winner, IEC TC91 WG2, 3 and 10 Maintenance Leader of 4 Standards.
Graham is Vice-Chair of the IPC 5-30 Cleaning and Coating Sub-Committee which oversees 15 IPC Standards Development Committees and recipient of 14 IPC Standards Awards. Graham is also a British Standards Institution EPL-501 Member.
Graham is a specialist in Surface Insulation Resistance Testing, Ionic Contamination Control, Solderability, Conformal Coating materials and application systems, Cleaning, Inspection and Test.
Graham’s Webinar:
“Predicting Reliability in Electronics” with experts Graham Naisbitt
and Chris Hunt
https://iconnect007.com/index.php?cID=854
Graham’s Book:
“The Printed Circuit Assembler’s Guide to Process Validation”
https://iconnect007.com/my-i-connect007/books/process-validation/
Graham’s Contact Info:
graham.naisbitt@gen3systems.com
MD 210 Boost Your Professional Value by 50% – Why Communications Matters
MD 210 Boost Your Professional Value by 50% – Why Communications Matters
Why Maintenance & Reliability Communications Goes Wrong, and How to Fix it!
In Maintenance and Reliability, communication may be the most important skill set to have, whether talking with production, asking for budget approval, or getting that promotion, yet this skill set is never taught in class or any reliability certification path.
As Maintenance and Reliability leaders, we often need to take complex technical information and make it more understandable for our audience, after all, we are the experts and they likely aren’t. But having so much knowledge on the topics we discuss often makes simplifying the information more difficult, leading to technical jargon and a story that is not re-tellable after the presentation. This is known as the “curse of knowledge”, and there is a way to overcome it and still have a lasting impact.
SOR 773 Training that Sticks
PR Reliability Sherpa Corner: How do we Measure the Planning and Scheduling Process?
Reliability Sherpa Corner: How do we Measure the Planning and Scheduling Process?
How do we measure the planning and scheduling process? George Williams and Ramesh Gulati dive deeper into why we do so in the Reliability field.
SOR 772 Independent Design Reviewer
Independent Design Reviewer
Abstract
Dianna and Fred discussing design reviews and independent reviewers.
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MD 209 Asset Management, Risk & Business Processes with Suzane Greeman
MD 209 Asset Management, Risk & Business Processes with Suzane Greeman
This week I’m joined by Suzane Greeman to discuss asset management and why your business processes are holding you back from achieving your reliability goals.
QDD 064 Gemba for Product Design Engineering
Gemba for Product Design Engineering
If you have quality friends, you may have heard of Gemba. What is Gemba and can it help with product design?
Gemba is an ideology.
And, yes, it can help with product design!
We explore how and talk about why you might want to adopt the term “Gemba” for product design engineering.
SOR 771 Too Many Meetings
Too Many Meetings
Abstract
Dianna and Fred discussing how to get next steps when being presented a problem by quality assurance.
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PR Reliability Sherpa Corner: Why should we Measure Maintenance and Reliability?
Reliability Sherpa Corner: Why should we Measure Maintenance and Reliability?
Why should we measure maintenance and reliability? George Williams and Ramesh Gulati explore the reasons behind measuring
SOR 770 Who Makes Something Reliable?
Who Makes Something Reliable?
Abstract
Chris and Fred discuss the seemingly never resolved question on ‘who’ is responsible for making something reliable? Is it the supplier? The designers? The manufacturers? Aliens?
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