The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reliability Discussions

By Fred Schenkelberg

June 8, 2021 / 9am Pacific Time

Not every discussion about reliability goes well. Some conversations make it obvious reliability is an afterthought or considered a barrier to creating and shipping products. Other conversations seem to support reliability work, yet really are little more than lip service. And, then there are meaningful conversations that improve the reliability culture within the organization.

Let’s examine a few examples of each and how to engage to shift all conversations into the ‘good’ category. How those around us talk about reliability matters and one of our roles is to improve the discourse for all concerned. Bring your examples, and let’s work together to sort out better ways to shift the conversation to a proactive and valuable focus on reliability performance.

Centrifugal & Positive Displacement Pumps

By Terry Harris

June 8, 2021 / 8am Pacific Time

$45

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

This webinar includes a presentation and discussion on:

• Pump Components
• Pump Fundamentals
• Why Pumps Fail
• Making Pumps Last Forever

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 $135, 6 for $215 and all 12 in 2021 for $335. You determine which 3 or 6 topics you’d like to include in your bundle.

Accendo Reliability Q&A/Discussion

By Fred Schenkelberg

June 15, 2021  / 9am Pacific Time

The first discussion session was fun. We filled the hour with a series of great questions and discussions amidst the group. We spoke mostly about ALT and HALT.

Let do this again on a regular basis.

The topics are open to what is on your mind related to reliability engineering. Bring your questions, ideas, and comments. Plan to join the conversation to add or respond to the questions of others.

This is our time to talk shop.

So What is the Root Cause?

By Chris Jackson

June 22, 2021  / 8am Pacific Time

We all know what the ‘root cause’ is … right? It is the ‘thing’ that caused something bad to happen. The problem is, the definition of ‘root cause’ has been abused, misconstrued, re-written, misinterpreted and all sort of other things that erode from what it is supposed to be. And by that I mean it has to be something that we can do something about (and make better). If you have been involved in an ‘after action’ report, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or any other activity to identify ‘why’ something happened and been disappointed with the results, it might be down to what you think a ‘root cause’ is. And this webinar will help you get on top of this.

Managing Cybersecurity Risk in Maintenance and Reliability

By Frederic Baudart and Matthew Hudon

June 2, 2021 / 8am Pacific Time

Maintenance and reliability teams increasingly utilize a range of technologies, systems and devices – all of which can present cybersecurity risks. For this presentation, cyber expert Matthew Hudon and CMRP Frederic Baudart are joining together to outline which cybersecurity risks M&R teams should pay particular attention to and what preventive actions make the most sense to implement. Topics include where to involve IT (and how), training the team to avoid phishing and other human-centric breaches, and how to effectively manage the inherent risks of introducing IIoT and SaaS solutions into the Maintenance and Reliability workflow.

The Human Error Tool Box: A Practical Approach to Human Error

By Ginette Collazo

June 3, 2021 / 10-11:30am Pacific Time

$150

Human error is known to be the primary cause of quality and production losses in many industries. Although it is unlikely that human error will ever be eliminated, many human performance problems can be prevented. Human errors start at the design stage.

From procedures, training, and workplace environment many variables that affect human behavior CAN be manipulated reducing the likelihood of these occurrences. When working with these challenges, it is imperative to understand human behavior and the psychology of error as well as understand exactly where the weaknesses of the system are so that they can be improved and fixed.

This course offers practical approaches and tools to address human performance issues in GMP related environments by using a particular methodology to correct, prevent and avoid reoccurrence of these matters.

Creating and Applying Maintenance Balance Scorecards

By Manuel Belaochaga

June 3, 2021 / 11am Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

The Important Connection Between RCA and FMEA

June 4, 2021 / 8am Pacific Time

Root cause analysis (RCA) is typically used for investigating why a problem did occur so that specific solutions can be implemented to prevent it from occurring again. Failure modes effect analysis (FMEA) is used to understand how a problem could happen in the future, to identify what actions should be taken to prevent it. Learn how to connect these two approaches to improve the way your organization analyzes, documents, communicates and prevents problems.

5 Steps to Increase Wrench-Time in Your Maintenance Organization

By Ricky Smith

June 4, 2021 / 1pm Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

SIF Prevention – Eight Steps to Reduce Fatalities and Serious Injuries from Potentially Lethal Energy

By Colin Duncan

June 8, 2021  / 11am Pacific Time

Despite breakthroughs more than a decade ago highlighting the different character of fatalities and serious injuries (FSIs or SIFs) compared with less consequential incidents, the worst events have remained stubbornly resistant to prevention. The patterns during the intervening years further validated those essential findings and demonstrated the struggles most leadership teams encounter in learning from them. The question for safety leaders in preventing FSIs, especially fatalities, is not how to downgrade the threat to below debilitating or lethal levels, but how through better asset management to eliminate it entirely.

In our analyses and experience, one factor differentiates the majority of FSIs and FSI near-misses from other incidents: the level of energy in proximity to a worker. Let’s discuss the historical challenges of managing safety in addressing FSI exposure as well as cover eight steps to identify, assess, predict, and manage how FSI events in industrial assets can be avoided.

Introduction to Weibull Regression

By Dr. Rong Pan

June 9, 2021 / 8:30-11:30am Pacific Time

$300

In this webinar, we will focus on the statistical data analysis techniques for building failure time regression models and for predicting product reliability. In addition, based on the properties of reliability prediction, we can properly compare reliabilities of products from different manufacturers/suppliers and construct statistically efficient tests to demonstrate reliability. As nowadays most data analysis can be performed by computers, we will demonstrate the Weibull analysis by using Minitab® and JMP®, as well as some Excel® templates that are customized for specific reliability data analysis tasks.

Medical Device Hazard analysis following ISO 14971

By Edwin Waldbusser

June 9, 2021 / 9am Pacific Time

$150

In this webinar we will explain in detail the process of conducting a hazard analysis. The confusing terms “hazard”, hazardous situation”, “harm”, “causative event”, “ALARP”, “risk index”, “benefit/ risk ratio”, and “residual risk” will be explained.

We will go step by step through a template for risk analysis so that the process is clear. Examples of hazards and hazardous situations will be discussed. How to deal with residual risk will be discussed.

We will explain how to integrate Human Factors studies into the Hazard Analysis and how to integrate Hazard Analysis into the design program. Risk level can determine the extent of CAPA investigations, validations effort, etc.

Application of ISO 14971 principles to software risk management will be explained.

How to Reduce Total Maintenance Cost with a Few Simple Steps

By Ricky Smith

June 9, 2021 / 3pm Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

The Relationship Between Cleanliness and Reliability/Durability

By Debbie Carboni

June 10, 2021 / 8am Pacific Time

The presentation will include:

• Process Qualification/Monitoring test results vs. SIR/HTHE results on live product.
• Examples of these qualification parameters follow, but ended in field failures due to dendrites
• What environments pose the greatest risk.
• What areas of the assembly tend to be most problematic
• Steps necessary to monitor and maintain consistent cleanliness.

Fault Tree Analysis as a Means to Promote Safety

By Jennifer B. Akers

June 10, 2021 / 9am Pacific Time

Designing safe products and systems is critical to reduce accident risk and minimize product liability. There are various reliability and quality analysis methodologies used to ensure safety including risk analysis techniques such as fault tree analysis (FTA), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and others. This webinar focuses on providing an introductory look at FTA and its role in promoting safety. We review basics about fault tree analysis, including what it is, its history, its uses and advantages. A thorough review of qualitative and quantitative FTA results, including minimal cut sets (MCS), quantitative metrics such as unavailability, and importance measures, is included. The presentation concludes with guidance on how FTA qualitative and quantitative results can be used to design inherently safer products and systems.

Women In Engineering

Panelists: Helen Wojcinski, Nicole MacDonald, and Margaret Anne Hodges

June 10, 2021  / 9am Pacific Time

The webcast will highlight perspectives from a variety of women in engineering and discuss:

• why having more female engineers is a valuable opportunity for organizations and,
• what changes in organizations and processes will be helpful to move toward Engineers Canada “30 by 30” goal of having at least 30% female engineers by 2030

Excel Tips & Tricks for Using the Cause Mapping® Template

June 11, 2021 / 8am Pacific Time

This FREE Webinar will demonstrate how powerful the drawing tool within Excel can be to document, communicate and share your entire investigation within our Excel Cause Mapping template without having to invest in new expensive, complicated software.

Pin in Hole Intrusive Reflow Design & Assembly – 2021 Update

By Bob Willis

June 14, 2021  / 6:30-8am Pacific Time

$65 for members / $85 non-members

This webinar provides an update on the use of through hole reflow with high and low temperature solder paste plus experience gained on jetting paste and other processes trials conducted in the last few years.

Topics included in our webinar:

• Overview of PIHIR design, assembly and inspection
• Use of high & low temperature solder paste
• Jetting paste as an alternative to stencil printing
• Using solder preforms & solder bricks
• Video reflow simulation
• Solder joint reliability
• Examples of common process defects and solutions

Design for Reliability

June 15, 2021  / 10am-2pm Pacific Time

Design for Maintainability

By James Kovacevic

June 15, 2021 / 11am Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

Understanding Defect Elimination

By Vinoth Kumar Subramani

June 16, 2021 / 8am Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

What is the SMRP and Why Should You Join a Chapter?

By Scott Stukel

June 17, 2021 / 3pm Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

Process Control to Ensure Electrochemically Reliable Electronics

By Mike Bixenman

June 17, 2021 / 7pm Pacific Time

This presentation is based on IPC J-STD-001H Cleanliness Guidelines that requires the manufacturer to qualify (N1D2D3) the soldering and/or the cleaning process that results in acceptable levels of flux and other residues. Objective evidence shall (N1D2D3) be available for review. The end product is a Qualified Manufacturing Process (QMP).

This presentation will present a process control plan based using temperature, humidity, and bias testing on site-specific components. The QMP is the result of the process that has been deemed acceptable by all parties that will be used as the baseline to compare future operations. Process control is concerned with process repeatability. The objective is to monitor variation outside the norm.

Defining and Investigating a Near Miss

June 18, 2021 / 8am Pacific Time

A near-miss is an incident that almost happened or could have been worse. These close calls are a warning to your organization. They contain valuable information that can help an organization mitigate risk if they know how to fit all the pieces together. In this webinar, attendees will learn how to:

• Define the incident and its potential
• Investigate a near-miss with cause-and-effect thinking
• Mitigate the risk of a similar or more severe incident occurring
• Add detail to an investigation to reveal breakdowns in work process

Transformer Management 1 Course (TM1)

By Aris Pena, Chuck Baker, Jon Karas, and Traci Hopkins

June 21-25, 2021  / Various Times Eastern Time

$150 per Webinar

SDMyers is offering 9 online courses that compose the entire “Transformer Management 1” (TM1) course. Each course runs between 2 and 2.5 hours and cost $150. Receive a $200 discount when purchasing all 9 individual courses that make up the entire Transformer Management 1 course; use coupon code TM1 at check out.

Courses that apply are:

• Introduction to Reliability Centered Maintenance (June 21, 9-11am)
• Transformer Components & Functions (June 21, 1-3pm)
• Solid insulation Life & Aging (June 22, 9-11am)
• Insulating Liquids (June 22, 1-3:30pm)
• Oil Tests & Interpretation (June 23, 9-11:30am)
• Moisture in Transformers (June 23, 1-3pm)
• Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) & Furans (June 23, 9-11:30am)
• Electrical Testing (June 24, 1-3:30pm)
• Applied Transformer Maintenance (June 25, 9-11:30am)

All times Eastern Time.

TM1 is the first step in obtaining the Master Transformer Maintenance Professional Certification awarded by SDMyers. The Live Online version of TM1 is equivalent to the Traditional Classroom version of TM1 and is therefore accepted toward the professional certificate program. More information regarding the Certifications available from SDMyers can be found in the file repository section of each course.

How to Conduct a Maintenance Assessment of Your Maintenance Process

By Ricky Smith

June 21, 2021  / 3pm Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

New Electronic Materials Research Programme and Collaboration Opportunities

June 22, 2021  / 6:30-8am Pacific Time

NPL’s Electronic and Magnetic Materials Group undertakes a wide range of research and collaborative projects in support of the electronics industry. The session, presented by Martin Wickham, will provide information on the proposed new project portfolio and capability. The group is now deciding it’s research programme for the next 3 years and we would like to present our vision and give you the opportunity to influence the research priorities. A list of potential 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 temperature interconnects and substrates reliability
• Rapid/In-process conformal coating evaluation
• Immersion/Condensation Testing
• High voltage partial discharge and insulation resistance testing
• Electronic Impedance Spectroscopy for rapid materials evaluation
• Metrology for embedded electronics

Understanding and Improving the Performance, Durability and Reliability of Electric Vehicles

By Andrew Halfpenny

June 22, 2021  / 7am Pacific Time

In this webinar we present a short overview of 7 aspects of innovation. Over the next 6 weeks each aspect is covered in greater depth in order to understand how the range and efficiency of vehicles can be improved, and how the risk exposure from relentless vehicle innovation can be managed.

Applying RCA to Improve Your Business’s Bottom Line

By Susan Lubell

June 22, 2021  / 11am Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

Mechanical and Durability Aspects of Electric Vehicles

By Dr. Andrew Halfpenny

June 24, 2021  / 7am Pacific Time

Like their thermal-engine counterparts, electric vehicles are susceptible to structural fatigue failures. The mechanical complexity of the battery structure and its mountings also give rise to significant additional fatigue failure issues. Insights into these structural and vibration-induced failures enable engineers to reduce the risk of fatigue failure, improve the durability of electric-engines, and increase vehicle reliability.

In this webinar we consider:

• The battery as a mechanical structure
• Fatigue design of battery packs
• Characterising the vibration environment of battery packs
• Deriving accelerated vibration tests for batteries
• Fatigue analysis of lightweight vehicle structures

6-Hour Virtual Seminar on Statistics for Process Control

By Elaine Eisenbeisz

June 24, 2021  / 8am-2pm Pacific Time

$545

This 6-hour virtual seminar includes a presentation of the steps and techniques used to quantify variability in manufacturing processes, and to assure quality products.

The concepts and information presented will be mainly concerned with statistical process control: obtaining monitoring information (data) that is objective, unbiased, and useful for decision making. An emphasis will be placed on the set-up and use of control charts.

The objective of the seminar is to provide information that can be used immediately by personnel involved in production operations, and by supervisors and management in decision making.

Failure Modes Decision Support and IIoT data-driven Predictive Modeling Capability

By Mike Marshall

June 24, 2021  / 8am Pacific Time

Webinar takaways:

• Synchronizing time-series event data with equipment anomalies and process safety incidents
• Linking plant financial systems for capturing lost capacity economic impacts
• Analyzing and recognizing multi-variate patterns for predictive analytics and early warning alerts
• Providing for event annotation, categorization and coding of anomalies into a time-series event frame template
• Indexing attributes in a structured framework for analysis of process anomalies and equipment failure

Digital Transformation in Vibration Analysis

By Petar Spaseski

June 24, 2021  / 8am Pacific Time

This webinar will take you on a digital transformation journey in the field of vibration analysis. This space has been shaking up with the advances in technologies and ability to perform the analysis with unprecedented speed and accuracy for a fraction of the cost.

We will demonstrate how using just your mobile phone and reliable dedicated digital accelerometer is all you need for condition monitoring and vibration diagnostics.

Learning Takeaways

• How to transform your vibration analysis programs into the fully digital environment
• How to benefit from affordable cloud and mobile solutions
• Practical example

Asset Management Effects on Equipment Health

By Anna Goodman

June 24, 2021  / 4pm Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

Warranty Webcast

By Eric Arnum

June 25, 2021  / 10:30-11am Pacific Time

Join Eric Arnum, Editor, Warranty Week, and Tavant for 30 minutes live webinar to learn about the latest in warranty management.

How to Sell Proactive Maintenance to Senior Leadership

By Ricky Smith

June 28, 2021  / 3pm Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

Inspection and Sampling of Transformers

By Aris Pena

June 29, 2021  / 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.

Performance and Efficiency Aspects of Electric Vehicles

By Andrew Halfpenny

June 29, 2021  / 7am Pacific Time

The theoretical and real-world range of an electric vehicle may vary significantly. To maximize the range and overall efficiency of the vehicle, it is necessary to understand and characterize how the vehicle will be used and determine through meticulous measurement and analysis where the losses occur.

In this webinar we consider:

• Electric motor efficiency and loss mapping
• Power measurement and analysis of digital inverters and electric motors
• Real-world battery use and target customer analysis

Digitization with Purpose

By Chris Colson and Rob MacNeil

June 29, 2021  / 10am Pacific Time

We are awash in endless new digital capabilities with countless providers who are all going to transform our industries and maximize our success. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Predicative Analytics, Rules Engines, Physics Based Modelling, Wired & Wireless CBM Sensors, Drone Thermal Imaging, Photogrammetry, APM Systems and the list goes on.

Takeaways

• Methodically determine where digitization fits, how it enhances, describes requirements to leverage, and provides a pathway for continued digital growth.
• Learn how to put you in control of your digital journey, and force potential providers into your narrative such that they must go beyond the fantastic Value
• Proposition to illustrate the details on how their digital offerings serve your purpose.