Failure Modes of Common Components

By Terry Harris

August 11, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

$45

A Reliable Process Solutions 1-hour webinar event focused on providing you practical content to improve your reliability program today.

This webinar will include presentation and discussion on:

• V-Belts: Types, Storage, Installation, Tension, Alignment
• Hammer Mills: Hammers, Screens, Balancing, Rotation, Preventive Maintenance
• Mechanical Seals
• Bearings

Sign up is direct with Reliable Process Solutions. After payment they will forward the link for the GotoWebinar event or provided access to the recording. There are also options to buy bundles of webinars (3 for $129, 6 for $209 and all 12 in 2019 for $329. You determine which 3 or 6 topics you’d like to include in your bundle.

Essential Reliability Engineering Concepts

By Fred Schenkelberg

August 11, 2020 / 9am Pacific Time

Everything will eventually fail. I like to say that keeps us in business as reliability engineers. The trick is knowing what will fail and when. There are many potential causes for a product or system to fail. There are design flaws, supplied component latent defects, assembly damage, and unexpected applied stresses.

The key to take-away from this concept is we can learn when studying failures. We can work to prevent or delay specific types of failures. By learning about failures, we learn how to create reliable products.

Let’s discuss the concept of failures along with a few other concepts universal to reliability engineering. Understanding the foundational concepts for our work can only assist you in your work.

What do you consider the essential concepts? Add your thoughts or questions when registering.

Practical Use of Stress-Strength Models to Develop Specifications

By Rob Schubert

August 18, 2020 / 9am Pacific Time

Warranty returns are a great place to start for setting targets for new products. But how do you translate that to specific numbers to design to? If you know the strength of a product and the return rate, you can develop stress profiles. If you have multiple similar products, your estimates can be even better. From the profiles, targets can be developed for future products to meet, and use them to calculate the expected return rates. You can even use these profiles to estimate the impact of design changes to warranty returns.

Reliability Analysis … Now What?

By Chris Jackson

August 25, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

Let’s say that you have some ‘reliability guys’ do some reliability analysis on reliability data … and they give you some numbers. Or a plot. Or a curve. Perhaps you are the reliability guy … and you do the analysis – and then what?

How do you use that probability plot to help you make a decision? How do you use confidence bounds, ‘p’ values, standard deviations, and so on to help you make a decision? The three most important things for reliability analysis are ‘the decision,’ ‘the decision’ and ‘the decision.’ So how do you convert reliability data analysis into useful information for that decision? … uncertainty and all? This webinar is for you!

On-Line Vibration Monitoring

August 4, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

Have you wondered why there are two schools of thought where condition monitoring is involved ? Why some people swear by periodic monitoring and others demand full time observation of expensive assets. This webinar will go quite some way into why this thinking has come about and how the philosophy of Vibration Monitoring is evolving.

If you register for this webinar you will experience some of the latest developments around this fast changing field.

Learning Takeaways:

• Why would you use On-Line Vibration Monitoring?
• What industries would and have used On- Line monitoring?
• How is On-Line Monitoring different from Periodic Vibration Monitoring?
• What can you expect from implementation of On line Monitoring?

The most Costly Pitfalls in Laser Shaft Alignment (and How to Avoid Them)

By Jonathan Gough

August 5, 2019 / 8am Pacific Time

Maintenance teams know these pitfalls. Coupling backlash, where manual positioning of the coupling is needed during a measurement rotation. Uncoupled machines, where laser and sensor heads must be separately and manually positioned on a machine, leading to possible errors and rework. Repeated moves and measurements just to get an accurate alignment result. In this webinar, Jonathan Gough, PRUFTECHNIK product manager for Fluke Reliability, discusses these and other pitfalls that drive up the cost and extend the time it takes to complete alignment jobs. He will explain how Adaptive Alignment systems overcome these drawbacks and deliver new levels of speed and precision in laser shaft alignment.

Accelerated Test, Design and Analysis to Demonstrate Reliability

By Dr. Alec Feinberg

August 5, 2020 / 8:30am-Noon Pacific Time

$400

This course is designed to focus on all aspects of Accelerated Testing, its Design and Analysis. We will first overview accelerated test historical models . We will review how to determine key parameters for these models. We will then discuss accelerated test planning.

How do we know what test to do and at what stage to do them in a program plan? How to use a top-down FMEA as a program planning tool. We will introduce a stage gate approach. Test design by failure modes will be utilized in planning. We will also overview general qualification test planning including multi-accelerated test design to demonstrate one failure rate with confidence bonds and accelerated end-of-life reliability test planning. Included will be a “CALT” like method for environmental profiling so that one can profile a product’s environment more accurately as field stress conditions vary. This will help set realistic accelerated test goals and will make for more accurate MTBF predictions.

In the analysis area we will look at statistical data methods, including Chi-squared accelerated multi-test planning, the new Chi-squared and other accelerated reliability growth methods, lifetime accelerated testing using Weibull/Lognormal test analysis, and multi failure mode assessment. What to do when multiple independent tests are performed and we wish to include all data in our analysis. This is an intense course, be prepared for the full session.

Building Enriched Customer Relationships: What’s My Selling Style?

By John Dieseth

August 6, 2020 / 9am Pacific Time

What makes one salesperson successful and another unsuccessful? Popular books target characteristics such as ambition, initiative, self-confidence, tact… and the list goes on. But what is the common thread? The answer is personality! Whether or not salespeople are aware of it, their personality shines through every interaction.

Join expert John Dieseth as he shares the powerful tool What’s My Selling Style? This instrument empowers salespeople to uncover their own and each customer’s style. It provides powerful techniques on how to alter each sales call to compliment the buyer’s style, enrich the customer relationship, and boost sales. By recording each customer’s style in their contact management system, they can prepare for each unique customer interaction. In this one-hour webinar you’ll learn how to deploy What’s My Selling Style customer success stories and experiences.

Human Error, Human Performance and Human Factors

August 7, 2020  / 8am Pacific Time

How many errors does your organization want? What is the error rate in your organization? What is it in other industries? There are radically different schools of thought on what human error is and how human performance is improved. This webinar clears up some of the confusion and addresses the myths around human error. We’ll review different types of errors and cover the topic of human factors. We’ll also share what some organizations have done to reduce human error and explain some basic steps you can apply in your organization.

Sample Size Determination for Design Validation Activities

By Steven Wachs

August 7, 2020 / 10am Pacific Time

$150

Design Validation should ensure that product performance, quality, and reliability requirements are met. In order to have high confidence that products will perform as intended, enough data must be collected and analyzed using various statistical methods.

Selecting appropriate sample sizes often vexes many practitioners. Testing only a few units does not provide a high level of confidence that performance requirements will be consistently met. Testing too many units may be unnecessarily expensive and can lead to misleading conclusions.

Statistical Methods are typically used to ensure that product performance, quality, and reliability requirements are met during the Design Validation phase of product development.

This webinar discusses common elements of sample size determination and several specific sample size applications for various design validation activities including Reliability Demonstration/Estimation, Acceptance Sampling, and Hypothesis Testing. Numerous examples are provided to illustrate the key concepts and applications.

Monitoring & Benchmarking Your Processes & Assembly Yields

By Bob Willis

August 10, 2020 / 6:30-8am Pacific Time

$60 for members / $85 non-members

There are no easy methods for companies to compare their manufacturing yields with other similar businesses. A common question asked by many company managers is “How does my process compare with other companies in terms of yield”? The information does not exist or is not easily available to small and medium volume companies

The most commonly used method of illustrating yield is Part Per Million (PPM) Defective. This provides a measure of the defect level against a process stage or a specific product compared against a known number of opportunities for defects to occur. There are IPC and IEC documents and procedures which do exist to monitor a process. This webinar will show how to implement a defect monitoring project in your company and the yield data produced. Bob Willis ran the SMART Group PPM Monitoring project supported by DTI and helped implement the LEADOUT project. these were the first project or their type in the world.

Cost of Quality from Theory to Implementation

By Yuval Shapiro

August 10, 2020 / 10am Pacific Time

$150

How could one assess the effectiveness of a Quality Management System? The best way to do that, is by using the ultimate transfer unit: MONEY!

The purpose of a firm is to make Money, the purpose of a QMS is to enable the firm to produce, and therefore – generate money with minimum losses that are reflected by failures.

The principles are known, but it is done? This lecture will give the listener the basic know-how to establish a Cost of Quality mechanism to a company: Easy to gather data, easy to implement and easy support!

Are Fatigue-Free Flexible Displays Possible?

By Dr. Christou

August 11, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

The field of flexible electronics has achieved numerous applications within electronic systems. However, line out degradation plagues flexible display reliability. In addition, various display needs require harsh environment, reliability, light weight as well are ideal for integration with a flexible power source or battery.

In this webinar, flexible display structures, powered by thin film cells on the same substrate as the display pixels with improve reliability are reported. The display structure consists of arrays of thin film transistors on polyethylene naphthalate. The nanoparticle technologies consisting of multiple layers of mixtures of activated carbon and ruthenium (IV) oxide for super capacitors are reported. The mono-particulate layer process described here is a modified Langmuir-Blodgett trough. We report the processes for a spray-coated zinc nano-powder electrode used as a counter-electrode forming a galvanic cell of extremely high charge storage capacity (>40A-hr/cm²). Hydrated ruthenium oxide as a nano-powder (10-100nm) with a surface area that approaches tens of square meters per gram is layered with nano-powder activated carbon. Thin separating insulating layers are interposed between the RuO₂ · xH₂O and the counter-electrode. As the counter-electrode, thin films of zinc and aluminum, and powders of zinc for surface area enhancement have been applied. These cells are processed on flexible substrates in order to form a totally self -powered multi-pixel flexible display. Current-Voltage characteristics of thin film transistors biased by the nanoparticle flexible batteries show fast power-on characteristics. The line-out degradation mode of flexible displays has been investigated on test structures with graphene interconnects. The graphene SN fatigue behavior shows the existence of a fatigue limit which can potentially solve the line out defect problem in flexible displays.

Non-Contact Additive Processes for Contemporary Electronics Production

By Gustaf Martensson

August 11, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

This webinar will present the opportunities for non‑contact additive processes for contemporary electronics production. The presentation will highlight specific aspects of the demands of the SMT industry with respect to application specifications, such as positioning and volume. A cursory description of traditional application methods will lead into a description of contemporary non‑contact deposition strategies, including jet dispensing and jet printing. More exotic technologies will also be presented.

Maintenance Optimization and Production Improvement with RAM Analysis

August 11, 2020  / 10am-1pm Pacific Time

During this three-hour online session, attendees will learn how to increase system productivity, discover industry best practices and strategies for reducing the total life cycle cost. Attendees will see how ReliaSoft software can be used to conduct RAM analysis to optimize maintenance and production.

Topics Covered:

• Plant/System/Asset maintenance strategy (predictive/preventive maintenance, spare parts)
• Identification of bottlenecks for productivity
• Plant/System/Asset availability (uptime, downtime)
• Metrics for plant/system/asset
• Asset Life Cycle Cost estimation
• System reliability analysis
• Reliability metrics for components/systems

Avoiding Profit Killers in Manufacturing Maintenance and Operations

By Paul Lachance and Kevin Parker

August 12, 2020 / 11am Pacific Time

The last 12 months have delivered their share of challenges for manufacturing companies: a slowing US economy, US-China trade tensions and then the sucker punch of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now more than ever, it is important for manufacturers to run lean and efficient — and maintenance operations are no exception. Profit killers like downtime, stock-outs and compliance gaps aren’t affordable in times like these.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the top profit killers
• How to avoid profit killers with superior performance
• How the pandemic is shaping the future of manufacturing operations
• Understand how best practices, technology and services combine to deliver greater productivity

Ultrasound and the IIoT: Guide to using Ultrasound for Remote Monitoring

By Blair Fraser

August 13, 2020  / 8am Pacific Time

Join us for an informative & personal introductory session where Blair Fraser will present, “Ultrasound and the IIoT: Guide to using Ultrasound for Remote Monitoring.” When a powerful and versatile technology such as Ultrasound meets the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), new solutions arise that will take condition monitoring of assets to a whole new level. The development of ultrasonic sensors and their integration with IIoT systems promise to be a game-changer when it comes to continuous and remote monitoring of industrial assets.

Learning Takeaways:

• How Ultrasound can become a key component of a continuous remote monitoring program providing earliest indication of failure in rotating assets
• Scalability with Ultrasound allows for flexibility & affordability

Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI)

August 13, 2020  / 9am Pacific Time

Jeff is CEO and CISO at Broadsword, Chief Evangelist at AgileCxO.org, and a Director with the DOD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Board. He has held leadership positions with Ernst & Young, Hewlett-Packard, RL Polk, eLoyalty, and Intellicorp, and serves as an advisor to organizations including NASA, L3 Technologies, State of Michigan, Boeing, and Accenture in the Defense, Aerospace, Health care, Cyber, and Federal government. His new book, Great Big Agile: an OS for Agile Leaders, is popular with executives who seek agility, autonomy and self-organization from their teams. He maintains an active music performance schedule and participates in motorcycle adventures to Cuba, Costa Rica, Peru, Spain, and other destinations throughout the world.

Determining Sample Size: What Sample Size Should I Use?

By Steven Wachs

August 13, 2020 / 10am Pacific Time

$150

The webinar will provide important considerations when selecting sample sizes for specific applications.

The knowledge gained by attending the webinar will allow practitioners to consider the implications of sample size selection prior to conducting the study and ensure that the information obtained can be useful for decision making.

Risk, Reliability & Root Cause Analysis

By Mark Galley

August 14, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

These three topics can sometimes be vague theories rather than concrete disciplines. Companies inadvertently make problem-solving too complicated. Six-week quality programs that leave people confused, 300 puzzling “cause codes” and frustrating investigations are not just counterproductive, they can be detrimental. It can erode the effectiveness of an organization. Your problems are confusing enough; your problem-solving tools shouldn’t make it worse. Employees who are inundated with techniques, methods and software can lose track of the basics. All problem-solving efforts should be focused on your company’s goals with a bias toward principles.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

By Joel Levitt

August 17, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

Free for members / $35 non-members

The presentation covers the steps of maintenance planning and scheduling including planning, ready backlog, work program, scheduling and metrics

How to Minimize Humidity Interaction with PCBAs for Robustness

By Rajan Ambat, Ph.D.

August 18, 2020 / 6:30am Pacific Time

Free for members / $25 non-members

Electronic control units, power modules, and consumer electronics are used today worldwide under varying climatic conditions. The climatic conditions with different and varying humidity and temperature can result in transient high humidity and condensing conditions inside the device. Uncontrolled humidity interaction with electronics parts such as PCBA can introduce failures and functionality issues. The formation of water layer on the PCBA surface can be looked as the process of determining the risk of failure occurrence and the failure mode itself i.e. increase of leakage currents, electrochemical migration and corrosion.

The parameters such as solder mask, residues from PCBA assembly process, and PCBA layout and components have an influence on the water layer formation on PCBA surface and failures. Therefore it is fundamentally important to understand the influence of these factors and their relation to the sequential failure development under humid conditions and how to avoid them. This webinar will focus on the factors that leads to water film formation on PCBA under humid conditions and show how these factors on the other hand can be used as a means to minimize humidity interaction with PCBA. Aim is to show the possibility of enhancing intrinsic humidity robustness of PCBA by incremental improvements by controlling the influencing factors.

Lubricants Can’t Be Green … Can They?

By John Sander

August 18, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

Is it possible for lubricants to be considered environmentally friendly? Learn about how biodegradability, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicity tests are used to measure the environmental impact of lubricants. Beyond that, find out how lubrication programs can be green through responsibly planned purchasing, storage, use and disposal – a challenge to the limited regulatory view of green lubricants that fails to consider longer lubricant and component life, and decreased energy use.

Learning Takeaways:

• Yes, lubricants can be “green” – in a variety of ways.
• How lubrication programs can reduce waste, reduce energy use and reduce environmental impact.
• The importance of using biodegradability, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicity measurements – along with traditional lubricant performance attributes – to determine which environmentally friendly lubricant is right for your application.

How to Build a Game Plan to Proactively Manage your Assets

By Mike Smith

August 19, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

With COVID-19 causing considerable uncertainty, many reliability and maintenance professionals are concerned about how to meet production goals. For football fans, there’s also some anxiety—what’s in store for America’s favorite fall pastime? Maybe there’s something we can learn from considering production and football goals at the same time. In this webinar, Life Cycle Institute educator and Reliability Engineering expert Mike Smith shares how football and asset management are very similar, and how you can apply winning football tactics to your asset management strategies. He’ll explain the role of the Reliability Engineer as the plant’s attacking, ball-hawking defensive specialist, and how REs can best understand the risks and failure modes of their plant’s assets.

Applying the HALT & HASS in Lean Product Development & Manufacturing

By John Paschkewitz

August 19, 2020 / 8:30-11:30am Pacific Time

$300

This 3-hour webinar introduces the basic elements and tools of lean product and production process development with emphasis on the opportunities they provide for ensuring product reliability. These methods focus on knowledge based product development with up front learning and reduction of variation. The emphasis is on applying accelerated tests like HALT and HASS effectively during lean product and process development.

During the upfront learning phase, analytical tools are used to enhance understanding of customer needs, prioritize the flow of development tasks, and do up front assessment of risks with Design Review Based on Failure Modes (DRBFM). With this knowledge in place, test planning to include Design of Experiments, HALT and Accelerated Stress Test are used enhance Design for Reliability. Design Review Based on Test Results (DRBTR) is used to capture learning from testing and identify corrective actions needed. Extending HALT to non-electronic products is also discussed.

The lean methods also emphasize integrated product and process design to facilitate the transition to production. DRBFM can again be used to ensure issues in the production processes are identified and corrected. This leads to effective application of HASS and HASA to screen production and ensure variation is minimized. Finally, test and field return data is subjected to failure analysis to provide correlation with design and test data for further improvement as well as knowledge capture for re-use in follow-on product development.

DfR – Design for Rinse-Ability

By Norman Armendariz

August 19, 2020 / 10am Pacific Time

Certain components or package configurations were observed to exhibit more entrainment and/or entrapment of cleaning residues.   This paper will discuss the “physics” of liquid entrainment / entrapment and their effects on component materials with experiments performed to determine the minimum amount of component vent area required to adequately rinse components of their cleaning residues resulting in a “Design for Rinse-ability” specifications or guidelines to deploy.  In addition, accelerated humidity testing with electrical testing will be discussed, that was performed to determine the degree of degradation / corrosion or electrical reliability of components exposed to controlled or known amounts of cleaning solutions entrained.

Avoiding the Most Common PCB Failure Modes

By Mike Creeden

August 20, 2020 / 9am Pacific Time

Free for members / $25 non-members

With this presentation, attendees will learn solutions to help avoid the most common failure points in today’s circuits.

Design For:

• DFSolvability
• DFPerformance
• DFManufacturability

Today’s dense, high-speed circuits have competing requirements and all these perspectives must be considered as they play a part of the design, manufacturing, and performance of our end products. Failure can come in the following forms.

• Not meeting aggressive product schedules
• Technical performance, (SI) signal integrity and EMC concerns
• Low manufacturing reliability and producibility which equates to cost drivers

Attendees will receive an understanding of how to implement pro-active solutions rather than re-active responses. The best way to beat a failure point is to preclude it.

How Detailed Should a Root Cause Analysis Be?

August 21, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

Do you want to see the forest or the trees? One of the questions we get often is, “How much detail is enough for my root cause analysis?” If there’s not enough detail, it’s easy to miss important elements within the incident. With too much detail, the investigation will get bogged down with trivial issues – wasting time and frustrating those involved.

Because problems in your organization are different severities, different problems need to be worked at different levels. If your company has a one size fits all approach, you will under analyze some problems and overanalyze others. This webinar will explain how your investigations can begin simple, then expand, as needed, into a more complete explanation to reveal a variety of different solutions options.

Introduction to Electric Motor Testing and Monitoring Technologies

By Leslie Reed

August 25, 2020 / 9am Pacific Time

This introductory course provides a wealth of information about technologies that can help motor maintenance professionals maximize reliability of their electric motor plant machinery. The webinar will introduce attendees to static and dynamic motor testing. The complimentary nature of the two technologies is important to understand. This webinar lays a foundation to enable the maintenance professional to plan and execute maintenance strategies that minimize costly unplanned downtime.

Learning Takeaways

• Acquire a general understanding of AC motor theory, construction, and the respective requirements and benefits of motor testing and monitoring
• Understand why electric motor testing is critical for a predictive maintenance program
• Learn the importance of the industry standards that apply to electric motor testing
• Develop knowledge of instrumentation used in both static-state (off-line) testing and dynamic-state (in-service) motor monitoring

Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn

By Katie Anderson

August 26, 2020 / 9am Pacific Time

• Understand the three principle roles of a leader

• Hear stories and quotes that appear in the book , “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: Lessons from Toyota Leader Isao Yoshino on a Lifetime of Continuous Learning”.

• Discover three practices that can help you become a more intentional people-centered leader

• Set your intention for practice for personal improvement.

Verification vs Validation-Product, Process or Equipment and QMS Software

By John E. Lincoln

August 26, 2020 / 10am Pacific Time

$150

The verification and validation of regulated software is coming under increased scruinty by the U.S. FDA.

This webinar will address the use of the FDA, GAMP, 21 CFR Part 11,”Electronic Records”/”Electronic Signatures”, IEC 62304, and other applicable industry software validation models, coupled with the ISO 14971/ICH Q9 Product Risk Management models, to plan, structure, run, and document acceptable software validations.

The FDA and other regulatory agencies have stated that software validation can only be accomplished effectively if “risk-based”. How can this be done in the “real-world”.

This webinar will address software that is:

• As-Product
• In-Product
• Process and/or In Production and Test Equipment and
• The Quality System/CGMPs

A manufacturer is responsible to identify these requirements and implement them into an effective software V&V process.

Building Blocks for Reliability – Reliability Performance Model

By Lee McFarlane

August 27, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

As Technical Director for AVT Reliability Group, Lee McFarlane will outline the building blocks of industrial plant reliability and areas of focus. By reviewing 28 key areas and conducting a basic gap analysis process, you can start to build and embrace cultural change towards a high reliability focused organisation.

Learning Takeaways:

1. Where to start the focus on Reliability Asset Management strategy and roadmap
2. While the talk is about IIOT 4.0, ensure you have the basic building blocks in place
3. How to carry out a basic gap analysis

Facilitation Tip: Productive Conversations with Multidisciplinary Teams

August 28, 2020 / 8am Pacific Time

This free webinar explains how to facilitate an investigation with a multidisciplinary team and provides some helpful documentation tips you can begin applying in your group. When a big problem happens there’s a lot of information that needs to be collected. It may involve multiple people from different groups. Typically, there’s not one person who knows all the various pieces. Each person may see the problem from their own point of view, but a thorough root cause analysis reveals how all the parts fit together.All the information about the problem, whether it’s collected in group meetings or one-on-one conversations, needs to be validated and organized. Seemingly small details at the outset may be extremely important. This complete understanding is essential for preventing future incidents from occurring.