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Dr. Craig Hillman speaks about designing for reliability. Electronics for space and automotive applications are discussed.
This week, I welcome my good friend Devin Luquist to the show. Most of you won’t know Devin but he’s a chemical engineer who has worked in oil & gas for the last 7 years before starting his own artificial intelligence company, Woven Cognition. Devin and I went to MIT, played on the varsity water polo team, were fraternity brothers and took economics courses together. In the episode, we take a deeper look at risk, decision-making and uncertainty. We give you some ideas on how to take risk into your decisions, how to deal with variance and introduce expected value.
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Chris and Fred discuss the new challenges of reliability in the upcoming years. Accendo was originally setup to help reliability professionals in an objective and broad forum. And this appeared to fill a void. Trade magazines are over-bearing, with sponsor adds replacing well thought-out articles. Professional societies are becoming less and less relevant (but more expensive). And Accendo lists ‘competitor’ programs, blogs and articles where other organizations strictly focus on their products, courses, books and so on. So Accendo has become the only ‘one stop shop’ for the reliability engineering community who want to develop their skills.
James and Fred discussing the many ways to learn while at a conference.
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With the rapid expansion of IOT, many circuit assemblies are now functioning in unfamiliar environments, many of these environments are harsh. Additionally, many new electronic applications control critical systems such as automotive electronics. This webinar focuses on the influence contamination plays on reliability of circuit assemblies, particularly when operated in harsh environments.
Several contamination-related failure mechanisms are presented including electro-chemical migration (dendritic growth, parasitic leakage) and conductive anodic filament (CAF). Methods to determine how clean is clean enough are discussed.
Tonight we continue our series on Planning and Scheduling. Our discussion is on Estimations on Work Orders. Tune in, download, and subscribe! [Read more…]
Seals are very important to contain machine fluids and keep them from different sort of contamination. There are different types of seals in the market such as traditional packing, mechanical seals, air seals, and other seals that keep bearing hoses in check. Traditional packing is one of the cheapest sealing solutions out there in the market. The only difference between a mechanical seal and packing is that the mechanical seals work very well for the rotating piece of equipment. They give precision and accuracy where is needed as compared to the traditional packing where there are a lot more chances of errors while holding the fluids in.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Adrian Messer from UE Systems to the show. We talk more about how to use ultrasound as a predictive maintenance tool and different mechanical faults that you can detect. We also dive into some of the nuts and bolts of setting up an ultrasound program including where, how often to take readings and procedures.
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Adam and Fred discussing a new concept to test products to their limit.
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As a reliability professional, you will be asked to teach. You are part teacher, coach, mentor, and expert. Being effective enhances the understanding of reliability objectives and methods to achieve them. Let’s explore becoming an amazing teacher. [Read more…]
Chris and Carl discussing how the self discipline of taking care of personal “tidiness” can be applied to improve the organization of reliability activities.
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Changing a customer’s mindset is often difficult. When a process is working well, we often resist changing the process, even if the change provides a better result. This is the “Good is the Enemy of Great” syndrome. My guest, Wendy Casker of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory tells of us how she introduced a “better process” to her space customer.
Asset hierarchy is very important to utilize the limited resources of an organization in the best way possible. It helps manage time and cost by prioritizing our assets. That’s why every organization needs to have a hierarchy. There are a lot of standards out there to help you build an asset hierarchy. ISO 14224 helps greatly in the matter. It contains guidelines that a maintenance and reliability organization can use to define some sort of organized processes and procedures that are important to have in the facilities. When they have laid out a foundation that way, it gets easier to do all sorts of things.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Dharmen Dhaliah to the show. Dharmen is the author of Physical Asset Management – An Organizational Challenge and he’s the corporate asset manager for the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada. We discuss the concept of holistic physical asset management, why we need to be better at communicating between corporate silos and why physical asset management requires significant amounts of work with a different mindset from what we currently have.
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Carl and Chris discussing the subjects of reliability engineering and reliability management. Are they generally the same subject with different focus areas, or are they based on entirely different bodies of knowledge?
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