Accendo Reliability Mission, Vision, and Business Model

By Fred Schenkelberg

January 11, 2022 / 9am Pacific Time

The idea of Accendo Reliability has been in the works for about 10 years. Longer if you count the various iterations in effect under different names and programs. The essence of 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.

Accendo Reliability is not a trade magazine nor a professional society, so what is it exactly? Let’s explore the evolution of the site’s mission, the intended future of the site, and the details behind the business model for the site. I’m looking forward to your comments and questions, plus your ideas and suggestions for the future of Accendo Reliability.

The Requirements All Good PM’s Must Meet

By Doug Plucknette & Ron Moore

January 4, 2022 / 11am Pacific Time

Preventive Maintenance, or PM, has been around since we’ve had machines, and is typically calendar based, and less often, run-time based.  We’ve known for some 75 years that some 90%+ of time-based intrusive PM is not just unnecessary, but actually detrimental to equipment performance and maintenance costs.  Unfortunately, many, or even most, PMs are not well thought out or implemented.  Several studies indicate that some 10-30% of a given set of PMs are “spot on”, meaning the other 70-90% need to be modified, or even deleted.  We’ll be discussing these and more issues.

What You Need to Do to Prepare for the CMRP Exam

By Ricky Smith and Vinny Cavello

January 4, 2022 / 2pm Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

Improving MRO Material Identities Makes all MRO Business Processes Run Better, Faster, and Improves Asset Reliability

By Conrad Greer

January 6, 2022 / 10am Pacific Time

Free for members / $33.90 non-members

In a long career implementing and improving SAP SCM business processes in Oil & Gas, Pipelines, Utilities and Transportation companies, the number one consistently observed problem is poorly identified MRO material masters. Material master identity consists of the item descriptions, the manufacturer and manufacturer part number fields and classification data that support material identification. This presentation is meant to raise the profile of the topic and the value lost by not addressing the problem without going into detailed solutions. It is aimed at a general level to all practitioners that make use of maintenance or SCM business processes that use materials.

Cleaning Best Practices – Reasons to Clean – Batch Cleaning – Inline Cleaning – Manual (Rework) Cleaning

By Mike Konrad

January 11, 2022 / 8am Pacific Time

Prior to the introduction of no clean fluxes, cleaning was a mainstream process. The advent of no clean flux reduced the need to clean to high reliability applications such as military, aerospace, and medical.

Component miniaturization, low standoff heights, higher reflow temperatures, and IOT, have created a perfect storm for the need to clean. Cleaning is once again a mainstream process, whether an IPC Class 1 or Class 3 device.

This webinar will cover four distinct topics with four presentations.

Risk Management – Implementing ISO14971: 2019

By Yuval Shapiro

January 12, 2022/ 10am Pacific Time

$150

Refresh your knowledge with Risk Management basics and practices and become aware of the new requirements presented by ISO14971: 2019.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Risk based approach
• Risk Management fundamentals
• Risk Analysis
• FMEA
• ISO14791: 2019

Understanding the impact of Single Event Effects (SEE) on System Safety

January 13, 2022 / 9am Pacific Time

The trend of current design practices with an improvement of integrated circuit technology, chips contain more and more functions resulting into increased device density. For airborne electronic hardware, the radiation effect poses more and more hidden dangers to the safety of aircraft. According to the current technological trends, in the next decade, if civil aircraft continues to use a large number of highly integrated electronic components and microprocessors, taking additional protective measures, then the average probability of catastrophic failure conditions caused by radiation-induced failure of aircraft hardware and software in the next decade will increase by at least 10 times. This will be a major risk to aviation safety.

Therefore, the Single Event Effects problem needs to be taken into account at the Preliminary System Safety Assessment process considering the system criticality and contribution of the system to catastrophic and/or hazardous failure conditions. The analysis will help to determine of whether or not the SEE error rate is acceptable with regard to the safety objectives.The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of SEE and the impact of SEE on the system functionality. This presentation will also provide an insight on how to perform Safety analysis considering SEE and to develop mitigation techniques.

The Important Connection Between RCA and FMEA

January 14, 2022 / 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.

Case Study: Generator Balancing and Diagnosing a High Vibration Trip

By Dan Goodrich and Tom Olson

January 18, 2022  / 8am Pacific Time

Case Study: Generator Balancing and Diagnosing a High Vibration Trip Adding Advanced Condition Monitoring Legacy API 670 Protection Systems

Learning Takeaways:

• Rotor Balancing – Understand how the static and couple vector are calculated and why a balancing engineer may install a static pair or couple pair in your machine.
• Vibration Diagnostics – Learn about the practical application of using an online condition monitoring system to diagnose a high vibration trip.
• Online Advanced Condition Monitoring Systems – Learn about cybersecure online condition monitoring systems can be added to legacy API 670 protection systems to increase the reliability of your critical plant assets.

Dealing with Poor Performers

By Ron Moore & Doug Plucknette

January 18, 2022 / 11am Pacific Time

There’s no such thing as a bad employee, but there may be one or two who need to be employed somewhere else. In this session we’ll be delving into the very difficult issue of managing poor performers. Studies indicate that in a typical company, about 30% of employees are actively engaged (high performers), 50% are dis-engaged (getting by), and 20% are actively dis-engaged (detrimental).

Bulletproof CAPA Process: How to do it Right?

By Yuval Shapiro

January 19, 2022 / 10am Pacific Time

$150

The webinar shall provide tools and examples of how to analyze and identify a root-cause and provide a mechanism to mitigate them. Also, the webinar shall provide insights into how to manage CAPA in a daily manner.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Corrections, Corrective Actions, and Preventive Actions
• Sources for CAPA
• Root-cause Analysis
• CAPA Management

CAPA: Corrective and Preventative Actions and Non-Conformances

By Michael Brodsky

January 19, 2022 / 11am Pacific Time

$150

3 Essential Buy-ins for Electric Power Reliability

By Larry Bryant, Martin Robinson, and Lee McClish

January 20, 2022 / 8am Pacific Time

Moving the needle on electric power reliability requires a three-prong buy-in. Approvals and commitment must come from corporate management and facility operations, as well as support from trusted suppliers. This Forum will discuss how all three are critical to success. The panel features a Reliability Practitioner representing each of these three categories.

Defining and Investigating a Near Miss

January 21, 2022 / 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

EV Charging Infrastructure for Facility Leaders

By Christine Witte

January 25, 2022  / 8am Pacific Time

Brought to you by The Maintenance Community Slack Group.

Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) Workshop

By Jonathon Karas

January 27, 2022 / 7-10am Pacific Time

$300

This course takes a deep dive into the importance of DGA, what industry standards state, how to use test interpretation tools, and how to apply the test results to increase the reliable life of the transformer.  The instructor and class will work through actual test results, apply the different interpretation tools to the data, then work together to make recommendations for solutions for corrective action(s) on the unit.  Attendees are encouraged to send along DGA test results from the transformers in their facility to use in this workshop.

Lessons Learned from the Loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger

January 28, 2022  / 8am Pacific Time

On the morning of January 28, 1986, during the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger, NASA’s first space shuttle disaster. A mere 73 seconds after liftoff, the space shuttle broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, taking the lives of all seven crew members. In this webinar, we’ll use this catastrophic event as a case study for understanding how a cause-and-effect based root cause analysis can be applied to complex, catastrophic incidents.