Accendo Reliability Webinar Series

3 Steps to Improve Your Reliability Culture podcast episode The reliability culture of an organization is about how individuals make decisions. It combines priorities & policies, behaviors & motivations, and information & capability. Understanding the current culture allows you to improve the culture. Improving decision-making concerning reliability has a number of benefits, including lower development […]

Creating Effective Reliability Graphics podcast episode When you ‘pass’ a standard-based test, what does that mean? How can you use test results meaningfully besides just noting the product ‘passed’? Understanding the failure mechanisms at play, along with the statistics, is key. Military standards, GEIA, IEEE, ANSI, etc, provide detailed test procedures for a wide variety […]

Fundamentals of the Cost of Unreliability podcast episode When a product or system fails, there is a consequence. Often, there is a loss of value. Each warranty replacement costs money. Downtime may result in lost revenue. Do you know the full extent of the costs involved when something fails? Remember your customer is using your […]

Creating Effective Reliability Graphics podcast episode Graphics, when used well, can convey easy-to-understand information. Reliability graphics may focus on trends in failure rates or the verification of improvement work. Often, reliability graphics convey time-to-failure patterns. Pareto Diagrams, dot plots, and measles charts help you and others grasp what the data has to say. Cumulative distribution […]

Fundamentals of Measurement System Analysis podcast episode When we make a measurement, we make a decision based on the data provided. It’s important to have data close enough to the actual measurement. What is the measurement error if something is supposed to be 2 cm long and we measure it at 2.1 cm? Every measurement […]

What You Need to Know About MTBF podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson MTBF stands for ‘mean time between failure.’ This sounds intuitively easy to understand. But … if you haven’t taken the time to understand MTBF, and your organization relies on the reliability of its products, you are almost certainly in trouble. For example, […]

Fundamentals of Field Data Analysis podcast episode Once a product is launched, it’s time to understand its performance. The design is done, and the assembly process is working. Now we can focus on answering the question: is the product hitting reliability targets or not? Thus, we do field data analysis. The basic process is to […]

Fundamentals of Tolerance Analysis podcast episode There are three approaches to setting tolerance limits for design elements. Each has ramifications for the eventual manufacturability and reliability performance—design for manufacturability and reliability hinges on correctly setting design tolerances. If you want to create a reliable product, the work starts well before the first prototype arrives. The […]

Fundamentals of Monte Carlo Analysis podcast episode The survival of an individual item is difficult to determine. Use and environmental conditions, along with material and assembly differences, count. Let’s explore how to model and use the naturally occurring variability to improve reliability performance. The Monte Carlo method is a relatively simple process that permits you […]

Using Available Weather Data podcast episode The local weather affects your products and systems. Knowing the weather helps you plan your wardrobe for the day. Likewise, knowing the weather helps you design a product or system that can thrive in the weather conditions it will experience. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tracks, […]