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Kirk and Fred discuss working with suppliers to obtain the desired reliability performance. It starts with how you specify reliability. It must include sufficient detail so your supplier understands your request.
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Establishing a reliability goal for a project is often done early.
You may already know the reliability goal guides the entire development and supply chain team.
Yet, what is the actual value of setting a reliability goal?
This episode of the weekly podcast covers the 4 Pitfalls of OEM Recommendations.
The original equipment manufacturers provide a manual in which all the general instructions are provided in the form of an operating manual.
These can be helpful when someone is using the equipment for the first time but when the same apparatus has to be used in reputed organizations with a set-up of their own, this manual is not enough.
It is developed keeping in mind the general behavior of instruments and common environmental condition of workshops and laboratories.
Most of the times, manufacturers put together these recommendations considering the worst that can go wrong to cover their warranty policies.
That is why the organizations cannot rely only on this operating manual.
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Kirk and Fred discuss how competing business priorities create obstacles to achieving desired reliability objectives. The culture of your organization may limit your ability as a reliability professional to do your job effectively.
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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:
These three elements will help us to determine the type of PM strategy that is value-added.
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Tim and Fred discussing warranty charge backs.
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Carl and Fred discussing the nuances of communicating with management.
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Carl and Fred discussing the tool selection process for a given job.
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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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Carl and Fred discussing the best ways to conduct an assessment.
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Tim and Fred discussing the issues involved with incoming inspection.
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Tim and Fred discussing receiving defective parts and the reliance on suppliers for quality.
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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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