Accendo Reliability Webinar Series

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reliability Discussions podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg Only some discussions about reliability go 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. 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. This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 8 June 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video and PDF of slides, visit the webinar page. Related Content Talking about HALT episode Driving Effective Conversations-Prioritizing and Decision Making at Concept Development and Beyond episode Driving Effective Conversations-Three Major Aspects to Consider for DfX episode Understanding Cross-Functional Collaboration episode Break the “we’ve always doen it this way” cycle Let's explore how to create plans and testing that actually helps your team improve the reliability of the products. See More 3 Steps to Improve Your Reliability Culture The reliability culture is about how individuals make decisions. Let's lay out how to improve the culture around reliability decisions. See More Reliability Analysis … now what? So how do you convert reliability data analysis into useful information for that decision? you do the analysis and then what? See More Fixing the Irrelevance of Reliability Let's discuss how can you make reliability relevant in your organization - plus a few ways to know it is not relevant. See More The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reliability Discussions Let's examine examples, how to shift all conversations into the good' category, and how those around us talk about reliability matters. See More Reliability Occurs at the Point of Decision It is by focusing on the key decisions that most influence the reliability of a product that we add the most value through our work. See More The post The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reliability Discussions appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

How to Make a Decision podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson If nothing changes, then nothing changes. Change happens when we decide to do something. The status quo remains if we decide to do nothing. We make decisions every day. We do it so often that it might seem like a trivial thing to do. But we so often get it wrong. We might be influenced by emotion, prejudice, time pressure, budgetary stress, or mental comfort.' Sometimes, we don't know what the actual decision is that we are busily trying to find information to inform. Sometimes, we don't know what we are trying to achieve. And sometimes all this results in lots of effort (to make us feel good about doing something) without the right decision being made. This webinar takes you through the key steps of decision-making particularly relating to reliability engineering. This includes how we go about testing and other activities to help keep us on track. And you might be surprised how much time and effort you save by making decisions right! This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 25 May 2021. How to Make a DecisionChristopher Jacksonshare Social: Link: Embed: https://episodes-reliability-fm.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/arw/decisions.mp3 Download RSS To view the recorded video/audio of the event, visit the webinar page. Related Content Driving Effective Conversations-Prioritizing and Decision Making at Concept Development and Beyond episode Identify Key Decisions episode Decisions and Value episode Quality of Decisions episode Decision Making in Reliability episode Finding Value with Reliability Tasks This webinar discusses the importance of estimated value and helps you discover and state the value of common reliability activities. See More Life Cycle Cost Analysis for a Reliability Engineer Life cycle cost: Let's explore estimating the total lifecycle costs for a complex system from the point of view of a reliability engineer. See More Predicting the Value of a Reliability Goal in Your Organization When setting a reliability goal, considere the value that reliability goal may provide. Let's explore three ways you can estimate the value. See More Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability A discussion of the wide range of the impact of the cost of poor reliability on engineers, organizations, customers, and society. See More Fundamentals of the Cost of Unreliability When a product or system fails there is a consequence. Often there is a loss of value. A warranty replacement costs money. See More The Reliability Value Map. It is a thing. A value map is an organized chart that helps you track down every possible good' thing that reliability can do for you. See More Reliability Making Money You need to work out how many spare parts, so put some numbers in a computer and use the that result. Right? See More Reliability Making Money 2 Case Study Let's explore a Weibull plot and enjoy reliability making money. In this episode, we look at an actual Weibull plot for an actual example See More How to Make a Decision This webinar takes you through the key steps of decision-making particularly relating to reliability engineering. See More 9 Ways Reliability is Green Engineering Visit a scrap yard to witness the impact of getting a new car'. Let's explore the many ways creating a reliable product is beneficial. See More 10 Reasons to Do Reliability Besides discussing what is involved in reliability, let's explore a short list of reasons to use reliability thinking with your team. See More

Fundamentals of Design for Reliability podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg DFR has been a term in and out of fashion for some time one of the many DFX type programs. DFR, unlike some of the other Design for X programs, has to exist within the overall culture of the organization to be successful. The premise that design occurs at the point of decision implies that each design may have the appropriate information to consider the decision's impact on reliability performance properly. Also, remember that decisions outside the design and development team impact reliability performance. Your organization’s marketing, finance, and supply chain elements make decisions that, too, impact how a product is perceived, funded, or created. DFR is a way to think, consider, and decide to create a product that meets both business and customer reliability expectations. It is not a set of tools or tests. It is a way of getting things done. This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 11 May 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video and PDF of slides visit the webinar page. Related Content Using DFR Tools episode Where to Start with DfM & DfR with Fred Schenkelberg episode Why DFR is Essential episode DFR and Maintenance Input episode DFR the Long View episode Reliability and Tolerance Analysis Tolerance specification communicates the allowance for part variation. Variation happens, and when it is within what we expect, great. See More Creating Meaningful Reliability Predictions Early and often during product development, the team needs to know the expected and meaningful reliability prediction of the current design. See More Reliability Integration into the Product Development Process One of the challenges for reliability engineering in product development is reliability integration into the product development process. See More Process Capability, Tolerance, and Reliability How a focus on variability with process control, process capability and tolerances helps to improve reliability. See More Fundamentals of Stress-Strength Analysis How a focus on variability with process control, process capability and tolerances helps to improve reliability. See More Fundamentals of Human Factors If a person is not able to interact with your product, with or without the manual, they may consider your product a failure. See More Using Available Weather Data How to find and analyze temperature readings over a 10 year period, create histogram and determine how many hours below freezing may exist. See More Fundamentals of Tolerance Analysis There are three approaches to set tolerance limits. Each has ramifications for the eventual manufacturability and reliability performance. See More Practical Use of Stress-Strength Models to Develop Specifications Warranty returns are a great start for setting targets for new products. But how do you translate that to specific numbers to design to? See More Fundamentals of Design for Reliability DFR is more than a set of tools or activities, let's explore the building of a reliability culture that support reliability thinking See More Fault Tolerance Fault tolerant design principles are the best approach to reliability. Or not. It depends on your design challenges. See More Helping Products Survive Transportation Besides building your product inside your customer's facility, your product requires transportation to move your product. See More What is Reliability Growth? This webinar introduces you to the topic of reliability growth (both qualitative and quantitative) along with key concepts See More Design for Reliability – Stressors I will discuss the identification of conditions that cause materials to degrade. Understanding stressors is good for design for reliability See More Fundamentals of Derating See More The post Fundamentals of Design for Reliability appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

10 Reasons to do FMEAs podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson Everyone knows why we do reliability, and reliability things like FMEAs. Customer experience. Organization reputation. Reduced warranty claims 10 years from now. But these are boring reasons that really don't motivate me to take FMEAs seriously now. Why should I invest so much time into an activity that benefits the company' or the customer' in the future but won't make an immediate difference when my boss will give me a gold star' on my next performance appraisal? Right? Wrong! FMEAs yield immediate benefits. Eliminating design and production delays. Slashing costs by not having to re-design. Incorporating customer or user features that supersede those of your competitors. Having your thing pass every design review and test with flying colours. FMEAs can make you a star and this webinar will tell you why! This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 27 April 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video/audio of the event, visit the webinar page. Related Content FMEA Resources Common FMEA Confusions episode Where are FMEAs (and their standards) Heading? episode UFMEA vs. DFMEA episode Facilitating FMEAs with Bobby Lee episode Fundamentals of FMEA Just the fundamentals of FMEA in this fast paced event. FMEA has value, the 10 steps, and a few examples of how it can go all wrong. See More 10 Reasons to do FMEAs Exploring ten reasons to do FMEAs, yet actually, reasons to do amazing FMEAs that provide value in a range of ways. See More Supportability (and FMEAs/FMECAs) What is supportability?' Easy! It's the ability of your product, system or service to be supported. But how do we get this so wrong so often? See More What is the difference between Design and Process FMEAs? Get an overview of which FMEAs do what and when you would use one instead of the other? Including Design, Process, and others. See More Using FMEA Block Diagrams This is where taking a breath and understanding our product before we build the wrong thing fast can really helpful. See More What’s the Difference Between FMEA and FMECA? Understand the difference (if any) between FMEAs and FMECAs? and How can you make an FMECA work for you? See More The post 10 Reasons to do FMEAs appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

 How to Plan an ALT podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg The more you understand the failure mechanisms, the easier it is to design an accelerated life test (ALT). Yet, we often do not have all the information we would like to draft an ALT. So, what do we do then? One approach is to use a suitable standard and follow the recipe. For example, 3 samples in a chamber at 85°C and 85% RH for 1,000 hours is a common standard-based recipe. The trouble is, what do the results of such an experiment mean? Will your device work for 15 years with a low probability of failure? It is unclear, right? So, let's step through an approach to setting up your ALT such that you will have a meaningful result. Start with what you know about your failure mechanism (or should know), then step through what to measure, how often, how many samples, and an overview of the analysis. This webinar intends to provide a starting point for your next ALT project. This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 13 April 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video and PDF of slides, visit the webinar page. Related Content ALT Planning Questions episode An ALT Design Question episode ALT Sample Size episode Putting Reliability Plans Together episode ALT vs. HALT episode Select the Right Accelerated Life Test Approach Let's explore how to select the right ALT approach. Getting meaningful results on time is important, as is minimizing testing costs. See More How to Create an ALT Plan How to Create an ALT Plan: Discussion about the basic element necessary to create an accelerated life test (ALT) plan See More Fundamentals of ALT A description of why and how to accomplish ALT, accelerated life testing, to support better decision making in your organization. See More Three Approaches to Accelerated Life Testing In my experience, ALT has three basic approaches: Test to pass, test to failure, and degradation testing. Each fits a specific situation. See More Acceleration Factors with Examples Acceleration factors translate one stress level to another, which is rather useful for accelerated life test interpretation. See More How to Plan an ALT Let's explore the many elements that become inputs to creating a plan for your next accelerated life test. See More What is Accelerated Life Testing or ALT? This webinar will introduce you to Accelerated Life Testing or ALT to help you and your organization make reliability testing a reality. See More An Accelerated Life Testing Q&A We're received a few questions related to accelerated life testing. Let's get together and address your questions related to ALT. See More How to Learn ALT This event will focus on how I learned accelerated life testing (ALT) and advice for you in today's world to learn ALT. See More Alternatives to a Long ALT See More What is Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)? See More Fundamentals of Life Estimation See More The post How to Plan an ALT appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Fixing the Irrelevance of Reliability in Your Organization: Just ask ‘why’ podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson There are so many books on leadership, management, more leadership, reliability, quality, customer first, even more leadership, et cetera. But there remains a common refrain I hear repeatedly from reliability engineers struggling to make a difference: Reliability is just not relevant to my organization.' There is a common thread to this common refrain we only hear it from people who work in organizations that don't have a clear understanding of why' they are doing what they do. Which, in turn, means no one really knows why' reliability is important beyond a few generalisms and motherhood statements. But all too often, we reliability engineers are just as guilty in not understanding why' we are here. If you want to start thinking about how you make yourself and your team more relevant (and valuable) to your organization, join us for this webinar and then ask yourself why?' This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 23 March 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video/audio of the event, visit the webinar page. Related Content Reliability Culture episode Warning Signs and Culture episode Building Reliability Culture episode Reliability Culture in Product Maintenance episode Culture Changes Begins With Your Ability To Influence Change article Break the “we’ve always doen it this way” cycle Let's explore how to create plans and testing that actually helps your team improve the reliability of the products. See More 3 Steps to Improve Your Reliability Culture The reliability culture is about how individuals make decisions. Let's lay out how to improve the culture around reliability decisions. See More Reliability Analysis … now what? So how do you convert reliability data analysis into useful information for that decision? you do the analysis and then what? See More Fixing the Irrelevance of Reliability Let's discuss how can you make reliability relevant in your organization - plus a few ways to know it is not relevant. See More The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reliability Discussions Let's examine examples, how to shift all conversations into the good' category, and how those around us talk about reliability matters. See More Reliability Occurs at the Point of Decision It is by focusing on the key decisions that most influence the reliability of a product that we add the most value through our work. See More The post Fixing the Irrelevance of Reliability in Your Organization: Just ask ‘why’ appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Reliability Making Money Case Study of just looking at a Weibull plot podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson Reliability engineers LOVE Weibull plots. They often make sense out of a bunch of seemingly random points. Or at least we feel like they make sense. Anything that turns a bunch of random points into a straight line is automatically making sense right? Wrong. It is up to us as reliability engineers to look at Weibull plots and work out what is going on. In this episode, we look at an actual Weibull plot for an actual example a mining truck. And the challenge will be for us to identify the likely reasons our engine is failing. And more importantly, what we can do to make money. And yes we actually know what was going on for real with our mining trucks’ engines. So let's put our expertise to the test! If this sounds interesting to you join me at this webinar! This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 23 February 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video/audio of the event, visit the webinar page. Related Content Weibull Analysis and Physics Trumps Mathematics episode A Discussion on Weibull Analysis with Fred Schenkelberg episode An Excel VBA Driven Weibull Calculator article What is Weibull Distribution? episode Questions to Ask about Data Analysis episode Finding Value with Reliability Tasks This webinar discusses the importance of estimated value and helps you discover and state the value of common reliability activities. See More Life Cycle Cost Analysis for a Reliability Engineer Life cycle cost: Let's explore estimating the total lifecycle costs for a complex system from the point of view of a reliability engineer. See More Predicting the Value of a Reliability Goal in Your Organization When setting a reliability goal, considere the value that reliability goal may provide. Let's explore three ways you can estimate the value. See More Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability A discussion of the wide range of the impact of the cost of poor reliability on engineers, organizations, customers, and society. See More Fundamentals of the Cost of Unreliability When a product or system fails there is a consequence. Often there is a loss of value. A warranty replacement costs money. See More The Reliability Value Map. It is a thing. A value map is an organized chart that helps you track down every possible good' thing that reliability can do for you. See More Reliability Making Money You need to work out how many spare parts, so put some numbers in a computer and use the that result. Right? See More Reliability Making Money 2 Case Study Let's explore a Weibull plot and enjoy reliability making money. In this episode, we look at an actual Weibull plot for an actual example See More How to Make a Decision This webinar takes you through the key steps of decision-making particularly relating to reliability engineering. See More 9 Ways Reliability is Green Engineering Visit a scrap yard to witness the impact of getting a new car'. Let's explore the many ways creating a reliable product is beneficial. See More 10 Reasons to Do Reliability Besides discussing what is involved in reliability, let's explore a short list of reasons to use reliability thinking with your team. See More The post Reliability Making Money 2 Case Study of just looking at a Weibull plot appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Acceleration Factors with Examples podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg Carefully considering the acceleration factor (AF) is essential when conducting an accelerated life test. Like warp drives shortening the distance, accelerated life tests (ALT) attempt to shorten time. Think of the warp factor and acceleration factor as being similar, well, sort of. Let's explore the crucial element of any ALT. What is AF? How is it used? And how do we know we have a good' one? There are plenty of problems and pitfalls. Let's avoid those and interpret our ALTs well. Plus, let's examine a few examples of AFs in various situations and a brief discussion about how to create a meaningful AF on your own. This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 9 February 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video and PDF of slides, visit the webinar page. Related Content Calculating Acceleration Factor episode Results-Driven Decisions, Faster: Accelerated Stress Testing as a Reliability Life Test episode Using Peck's Equation episode Accelerated Testing Assumptions episode Select the Right Accelerated Life Test Approach Let's explore how to select the right ALT approach. Getting meaningful results on time is important, as is minimizing testing costs. See More How to Create an ALT Plan How to Create an ALT Plan: Discussion about the basic element necessary to create an accelerated life test (ALT) plan See More Fundamentals of ALT A description of why and how to accomplish ALT, accelerated life testing, to support better decision making in your organization. See More Three Approaches to Accelerated Life Testing In my experience, ALT has three basic approaches: Test to pass, test to failure, and degradation testing. Each fits a specific situation. See More Acceleration Factors with Examples Acceleration factors translate one stress level to another, which is rather useful for accelerated life test interpretation. See More How to Plan an ALT Let's explore the many elements that become inputs to creating a plan for your next accelerated life test. See More What is Accelerated Life Testing or ALT? This webinar will introduce you to Accelerated Life Testing or ALT to help you and your organization make reliability testing a reality. See More An Accelerated Life Testing Q&A We're received a few questions related to accelerated life testing. Let's get together and address your questions related to ALT. See More How to Learn ALT This event will focus on how I learned accelerated life testing (ALT) and advice for you in today's world to learn ALT. See More Alternatives to a Long ALT See More What is Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)? See More Fundamentals of Life Estimation See More The post Acceleration Factors with Examples appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Reliability Making Money podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson We all know that all you need to work out how many spare parts you need is to put some numbers into a computer, perhaps throw in a confidence' level as well, and use the number that the computer spits back out at you. Right? Well you can do this. Especially if you hate money, love carrying too many spares, or not enough. Especially if you are not trying to keep searching for an edge over your competitors, and especially if you like saying that you take reliability stuff' seriously but don't really want to take the time to do it then use the number that the computer gives you. Instead, you can use your brain to work out the right number of spares you need and save lots and lots of money. If this sounds interesting to you join me at this webinar! This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 26 January 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video/audio of the event, visit the webinar page. Related Content Verifying New Vendor for Spares episode Spares episode Improving Spares Stocking without Statistics episode 60% of Profits from Spares and Repairs episode Finding Value with Reliability Tasks This webinar discusses the importance of estimated value and helps you discover and state the value of common reliability activities. See More Life Cycle Cost Analysis for a Reliability Engineer Life cycle cost: Let's explore estimating the total lifecycle costs for a complex system from the point of view of a reliability engineer. See More Predicting the Value of a Reliability Goal in Your Organization When setting a reliability goal, considere the value that reliability goal may provide. Let's explore three ways you can estimate the value. See More Fundamentals of Cost of Poor Reliability A discussion of the wide range of the impact of the cost of poor reliability on engineers, organizations, customers, and society. See More Fundamentals of the Cost of Unreliability When a product or system fails there is a consequence. Often there is a loss of value. A warranty replacement costs money. See More The Reliability Value Map. It is a thing. A value map is an organized chart that helps you track down every possible good' thing that reliability can do for you. See More Reliability Making Money You need to work out how many spare parts, so put some numbers in a computer and use the that result. Right? See More Reliability Making Money 2 Case Study Let's explore a Weibull plot and enjoy reliability making money. In this episode, we look at an actual Weibull plot for an actual example See More How to Make a Decision This webinar takes you through the key steps of decision-making particularly relating to reliability engineering. See More 9 Ways Reliability is Green Engineering Visit a scrap yard to witness the impact of getting a new car'. Let's explore the many ways creating a reliable product is beneficial. See More 10 Reasons to Do Reliability Besides discussing what is involved in reliability, let's explore a short list of reasons to use reliability thinking with your team. See More The post Reliability Making Money appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

Three Approaches to Accelerated Life Testing podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg We can make a guess, some assumptions, or conduct an experiment. In fact, we use engineering judgment, and prudent assumptions to create our experiments that lead to understanding time to failure information. Accelerated life testing, ALT, is one of the most complex and important types of experiments we conduct. It involves samples, failure mechanisms, stress, measurements, and statistics. In my experience, there are three basic approaches to ALT: Test to pass, test to failure, and degradation testing. Each may or may not be an appropriate approach for a given situation. Each may lead to faulty or excellent results. Let's discuss a little about the challenges and constraints along with the attributes of each of these three approaches. And, how to determine which approach is appropriate for your current situation. We'll also explore when and why you should conduct an ALT. That may be the fourth approach, deciding not to conduct the experiment. This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 12 January 2021. Download RSS To view the recorded video/audio of the event, visit the webinar page. Related Content Accelerated Testing Assumptions episode Lead-Free Solder Accelerated Testing article Metal Fatigue Failure Mechanism Accelerated Life Testing article Temperature & Humidity Accelerated Life Testing article Time Compression Accelerated Life Testing article Select the Right Accelerated Life Test Approach Let's explore how to select the right ALT approach. Getting meaningful results on time is important, as is minimizing testing costs. See More How to Create an ALT Plan How to Create an ALT Plan: Discussion about the basic element necessary to create an accelerated life test (ALT) plan See More Fundamentals of ALT A description of why and how to accomplish ALT, accelerated life testing, to support better decision making in your organization. See More Three Approaches to Accelerated Life Testing In my experience, ALT has three basic approaches: Test to pass, test to failure, and degradation testing. Each fits a specific situation. See More Acceleration Factors with Examples Acceleration factors translate one stress level to another, which is rather useful for accelerated life test interpretation. See More How to Plan an ALT Let's explore the many elements that become inputs to creating a plan for your next accelerated life test. See More What is Accelerated Life Testing or ALT? This webinar will introduce you to Accelerated Life Testing or ALT to help you and your organization make reliability testing a reality. See More An Accelerated Life Testing Q&A We're received a few questions related to accelerated life testing. Let's get together and address your questions related to ALT. See More How to Learn ALT This event will focus on how I learned accelerated life testing (ALT) and advice for you in today's world to learn ALT. See More Alternatives to a Long ALT See More What is Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)? See More Fundamentals of Life Estimation See More The post Three Approaches to Accelerated Life Testing appeared first on Accendo Reliability.