Reliability and Maintenance

By Fred Schenkelberg

July 12, 2022 / 9am Pacific Time

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 professional can achieve more then 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 day to day observations the maintenance teams make provides meaningful information to the reliability team.

Let’s explore how these two related fields are bound together in so many ways. What works well and what could work better.

Confidence in Reliability

By Chris Jackson

July 26, 2022 / 8am Pacific Time

Reliability is a measure of your product or system. Confidence is a measure of you. But we often forget this. We often subject our new product, system or service to test after test until it reaches this thing called ‘required statistical confidence.’ But this is often an illusion. Which is great! Because if statistical confidence is often not ‘real’ confidence, then we don’t always have to resort to statistics to get confidence. In fact, those of us who exclusively rely on statistics are usually those who lack confidence in the product, system or service and need a security blanket to make them feel OK.

This webinar talks about confidence from the perspective of the ‘process owner.’ The design team lead. The CTO. The junior engineer. And how you can get a much healthier version of confidence through the way we design and produce our ‘things’ so that when it comes time to test … we are (justifiably) supremely confident that we will absolutely dominate whatever statistical testing hurdle can be thrown our way. And this sometimes means we don’t need to deal with statistics at all!

How Detailed Should Your Root Cause Analysis Be?

By Mark Galley

July 8, 2022 / 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 simply, then expand, as needed, into a more complete explanation to reveal a variety of different solution options.

Concrete Steps to Go From Reactive to Proactive Maintenance

By Joel Levitt

July 11, 2022 / 8am Pacific Time

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Harsh Environments Electronic Materials Research Programme 2022-2025 and Collaboration Opportunities

July 12, 2022 / 6:30am Pacific Time

NPL’s Electronic and Magnetic Materials Group undertakes a wide range of research and collaborative projects in support of the electronics industry particularly in understanding the operation of electronic systems in harsh environments.

This webinar will summarize recently completed projects and present the Group’s proposals for extending our research portfolio and capability over the next 3 years. We would like to present our vision and give you the opportunity to influence the research priorities. A list of subject areas is given below. The session will also explain how you and your company can be involved in our projects and influence project parameters to best reflect your requirements.

• Metrology for harsh environment electronics and power electronics
• High voltage electrical fatigue within PCBs
• High temperature interconnects and substrates reliability
• Partial discharge measurements and degradation in solid and liquid dielectric materials
• High voltage CAF (conductive anodic filament failures of more than 1000V) measurements and test vehicles
• Rapid/In-process conformal coating evaluation
• Immersion/Condensation Testing
• Electronic Impedance Spectroscopy for rapid materials evaluation

Asset Operations Live: The Benefits of Measuring Teams Based on Why They Do Something Rather Than What They Do

By Rob Kalwarowsky, Michael Moran and Ryan Chan

July 13, 2022 / 10am Pacific Time

Join us for our webinar series Asset Operations…Live!, where we’ll take a deep dive into some of AOM’s core fundamentals.

This webinar covers the themes outlined in the two AOM pillars:

• Continuous Improvement as an Abundant Life Cycle, Not Just a Point in Time
• Measure Teams Based on Why They Do Something Rather Than What They Do

What would it mean if teams weren’t measured just based on the number of work orders completed or hours that they worked, but instead how they impacted the bottom line? Every single business could be more profitable and make smarter decisions.

Piping Vibration and the New Part 15 of API 579

By Michael Bifano and Nathan Libertowski

July 14, 2022 / 8am Pacific Time

Free for members / $25 non-members

What you will learn from this webinar:

• overview of different piping vibration mechanisms.                                                                                
• overview of the upcoming API 579 Part 15. Details about the Level 1 and Level 2 calculations for piping vibration
• how to screen for piping vibration
• Overview of vibration mitigation techniques for piping vibration

Communicating with FINESSE: Getting Your Boss’s Boss to Understand

By JD Solomon

July 14, 2022 / 9am Pacific Time

Getting your boss’s boss to understand is one of the most challenging jobs for technical professionals. Senior management frequently does not understand concepts related to risk, reliability, resilience, quality, and other technical specialties. Texts and guidance documents often reference the importance of better communication and education; however, limited practical guidance is provided to technical professionals in their roles as trusted advisors to senior decision makers. This webinar will fill some of these gaps and provide a proven approach for getting the boss’s boss to understand.

The Communicating with FINESSE fishbone diagram will be used as the outline for the workshop. The seven bones of the fishbone diagram are Framing, illustrations, Noise reduction, Empathy, Structure, Synergy, and Ethics. The central message of each topic will be discussed. Specific real-world examples relative to risk and reliability will be provided.

Introduction to Cause Mapping® – Effective Root Cause Analysis

By Mark Galley

July 15, 2022/ 8am Pacific Time

Learn how to become better at solving problems in your job in just 45 minutes. During this webinar, we’ll demonstrate the Cause Mapping® method, which is evidence-based cause-and-effect root cause analysis that can be used on day-to-day issues as well as catastrophic incidents. Anyone wanting to become a more effective manager or team member can benefit from this discussion. Participants will take away practical tips that can be implemented immediately.

How to Implement a New CMMS on Multiple Industrial Plants – A Case Study

By Fabio Andre Brand

July 18, 2022 / 3pm Pacific Time

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Rapid and Robust Reliability Development – 2022 HALT & HASS

By Kirk Gray

July 19 and 20, 2022 / 8:30-12:30 Pacific Time

$800

This 8-hour webinar, presented over two days, gives valuable insight into saving your company millions of dollars in lost opportunity by prevention of latent product defects. You will get to market faster and delight your customers by producing consistent high-quality products. Participants will obtain a deeper understanding of what the HALT and HASS methodology do for process and product maturity in an organization and will enable better integration of these methods into the design and manufacturing processes, respectively. The instructor invites high level management as well as engineers to attend. Please send questions in advance on what you would like most to understand more about the HALT and HASS approach and methodology.

Important Measures for a Vibration Program

By Doug Plucknette

July 19, 2022 / 11am Pacific Time

Today we will discuss topics such as:

• % of Rotating Machines covered with a vibration analysis route
• Frequency of data collection and analysis
• Alarm limits for generation of work
• # of Work Orders generated as a result of vibration analysis per month
• Mean Time to Implementation of corrective work orders generated as a result of vibration analysis
• Speed of follow-up on corrective work orders generated as a result of vibration analysis

Learning to use a CMMS for Compliance

By Tara Acree and Roy Rothwell

July 20, 2022  / 8am Pacific Time

Part 1 of a 3 Part Life Sciences Series

We will discuss changes, challenges, and trends along with best practices on how Life Science companies can:

• Comply with regulatory requirements
• Mitigate risk and provide world class metrics
• Automate digital processes to reduce manual methodsIncludes an overview of proven steps to comply with FDA, GMP, and other regulatory practices while enhancing maintenance strategies to improve efficiency and visibility.

Inspection and Sampling of Transformers

By Aris Pena

July 21, 2022 / 7-10am Pacific Time

$300

This course reviews the proper and safe procedures needed to obtain a representative sample of dielectric fluids. It covers personal protective equipment, special care transformers, visual inspection, gauges, nameplates, sampling containers, proper methods and techniques, packaging, and applying nitrogen.

Ultrasound Diagnosis of Transformers and Motor Bearings

By Drew Walts

July 21, 2022 / 10am Pacific Time

This webinar will go over two case studies from a food manufacture in the Midwest. Their CBM Analyst is Certified CAT 2 in ASU and IRT. He has partnered with the IRISS Technical Service Team to investigate fault conditions and help to expand the theory of Ultrasound Diagnostic and Sound Pattern Analysis. This CBM Analyst is the IRT Analyst as well and his use of both these technologies has been aided by outside service providers who perform the Vibration and Oil Analysis onsite. We will look at two unique case studies that used ultrasound and IR Cameras as their front-line testing technology and dive into a motor fault determination and fault detection of an oil filled transformer.

Excel Tips & Tricks for Using the Cause Mapping® Template

By Aaron Cross

July 22, 2022 / 2pm Pacific Time

Best Practices for Choosing a Cleaning Chemical

July 26, 2022 / 8am Pacific Time

Most post reflow-cleaning applications require the use of a chemical additive in order to remove non-polar residue species. Which cleaning chemical is appropriate for your application, cleaning equipment, health and safety requirements, disposal regulations, and other requirements?

During this webinar, we will review various post-reflow cleaning chemicals along with their intended applications, equipment compatibilities, safety, performance characteristics, and other valuable information. This webinar will present best-practice chemical selection methods to ensure the appropriate cleaning chemical additive is selected.

Reliability Matters Podcast 100th Episode – LIVE

By Mike Konrad

July 26, 2022 / 10am Pacific Time

The Reliability Matters Podcast celebrates its 100th episode on July 26, 2022 at 10:00 AM (PDT) with a special live stream. We will be featuring clips from past episodes with fascinating guests such as Dr. Eric R Fossum, inventor of the CMOS image sensor, industry gurus Bob Willis, Phil Zarrow, Jim Hall, Matric Group’s Patrick Stimpert, failure analysis investigator Eric Camden and more.

Join us for this special live episode.

AIAG VDA 7-Steps – Complete Your FMEA 3X Faster Without Missing Any Critical Failure Modes

By Howard Cooper

July 27, 2022 / 8:30-11:30am Pacific Time

$300

This new powerful AIAG VDA FMEA preparation method was first presented at RAMS and at NDIA’s GVSETS international symposiums, in a short 30-minute format. It was a for-runner to AIAG VDA FMEA and is compliant and capable for application in Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Medical and Commercial systems integration and product development.

This FH-Decomp Method played a large part in helping 26 different system development teams mitigate critical failure modes, safety hazards and make innovative system improvements. All 26 improved systems were then adopted and deployed by customers, rather than leaving these 26 systems vulnerable to the 80/20 Rule of product development failures. According to the 80/20 Rule, only 5 of these 26 products should have been adopted.

Attendees will also see how this AIAG VDA 7-Steps FMEA preparation method can be applied when doing; PFMEA, DFMEA, SWFMEA, MFMEA, or FMECA, with an Excel template and workbook (provided at no additional cost with your paid registration) or you can use your own FMEA software package.

Maintenance Supervisor Best Practices

By Ricky Smith

July 28, 2022  / 2pm Pacific Time

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How a 5-Why Expands into a Complete Investigation

By Aaron Cross

July 29, 2022 / 8am Pacific Time

Every investigation, regardless of its complexity, can begin with a simple 5-Why. Bigger incidents will be broken down into more detail. Even as the investigation expands into a larger analysis it does not contradict the initial 5-Why. Smaller incidents have few parts and bigger incidents have more parts, but the cause-and-effect principle doesn’t change. It can be applied consistently to all incidents.