Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
In this episode, the incredible Keith Fong and I discuss the role of the quality function and what skillset and mindset quality practitioners need to have to navigate the future.
Within our quality toolbox, there are a lot of graphical organizers. Some are better at fulfilling different goals than others. If we have a goal in mind, then we may choose a certain tool. However, we don’t want analysis paralysis about which tool is best to stop us from using any tool at all.
I share my 3 general guidelines about choosing a graphical quality tool, how to draw them, and when to use them.
Plus, we talk about 3 tools in particular, prompted by a social media ask: mind map, process flowchart, and spaghetti diagram. We get into what they are, when we’re most likely to use them, and how they can be used for design.
Accendo Reliability has been in the works for about ten years. Counting the various iterations in effect under different names and programs, it has been longer. The idea behind the site is to provide our community with great content to help you solve problems, learn, and improve. A close second concept is to provide a platform to help you share your knowledge.
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Kirk and Fred discussing how much of reliability engineering is devoted to testing and what other functions should a reliability engineer do.
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The average age of hundreds of thousands of maintenance people across the globe is over 50 years old. Many have already started to retire, leaving empty maintenance positions behind. Companies are having a challenge in finding qualified workers to fill vacancies. With no one to fix broken pipes, frayed wires and brittle levies, modern nations are finding themselves in what Joel Leonard has coined, “The Maintenance Crisis.”
Carl and Fred discussing the origin and meaning of the reliability “bathtub” curve, and why it is not useful as a visual analogy.
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In this episode of the Women in Maintenance Podcast, we have our first guest, Trena Ellis, Vice President of Facilities at SAFE Credit Union, on the show! Caitlyn and Trena discuss successful strategies and practices in facility and vendor management. And, helpful advice on how to build your network within your industry. Tune in today! [Read more…]
Design for Excellence (DFX) is a concept that includes many initiatives, like design for usability, design for manufacturability and assembly, and design for environment and disassembly. It’s a focus on doing things right, exceeding customer expectations, optimizing what’s needed while minimizing costs, and continuous improvement.
Today we take a deep dive on one of those aspects: design for environment (DFE), including design for disassembly. What are reasons that a business would consider this important, and how does a design engineer fit in?
Are you thinking about implementing a new sensor in your facility? Maybe it is the Nanoprecise sensor?
In this weeks episode we talk with Vivek Gupta about his implementation journey through pilot to full scale role out of the Nanoprecise sensor. Also joining the conversation us Sunil Vedula.
Episode Shout Outs:
Vivek Gupta – https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-gupta-937b819/
Sunil Vedula – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-vedula-844a0917/
www.nanoprecise.io
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Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod
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It is my pleasure to welcome back Rick clone into the podcast, the implementation and training manager at era DCO.
In this episode we covered:
Kirk and Fred discuss the relationship between FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and HALT (Highly Accelerated Limit Test)
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Preston Rubottom is the Director of Lubrication Reliability Solutions at Lubrication Engineers, Inc. Experienced maintenance professional with an extensive background in hands on equipment repair, root cause failure analysis and preventive maintenance strategies. Demonstrated history of working in heavy manufacturing of aircraft and aircraft component industry. Skilled in Reliability Centered Maintenance, Engineering, Facilities Maintenance Management, Advanced Hydraulic Technology.
Kirk and Fred discuss misunderstandings of the limit testing and believing it’s “just breaking it”
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In the second episode of the Critical Talks Podcast, I am joined by George Zack of Two Harbors Consulting to talk about the FDA’s Case for Quality Initiative and how compliance alone shouldn’t be the goal for medical device manufacturers.
We want to ensure our designs perform reliably, as expected and intended. With today’s high-reliability products and quick release to market, we probably don’t have enough time to just test our parts at normal use rates. It would take too long, because our products ARE so reliable. Or, we’ll miss our window of opportunity to get our product to market.
There are several ways to get reliability data to make design decisions. One of the ways is reliability life testing of our product.
This episode explores how accelerated stress testing is one subset of other reliability life testing methods, when it’s a good idea, how we can approach doing it, and what we can do with the results.
