

Accendo Reliability Webinar Series
Fred Schenkelberg
Reliability Engineering Basics, Statistics, Accelerated Testing, Program Assessment and Improvement.
Listen in on in depth discussions held during the live monthly Accendo Reliability webinar series. We explore topics ranging from reliability engineering basics, statistics, accelerated life testing, program assessment and improvement. Catch up or review past events below.
Listen in on in depth discussions held during the live monthly Accendo Reliability webinar series. We explore topics ranging from reliability engineering basics, statistics, accelerated life testing, program assessment and improvement. Catch up or review past events below.
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Mar 28, 2023 • 0sec
Where does the Bell Curve come from?
Where does the Bell Curve come from?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Everyone has heard of the bell curve.' Sports show hosts, teachers, scientists, and a bunch of other people routinely use the term bell curve' to describe uncertainty. But do you know where it comes from? It is not just a pretty shape' that seems to work, It comes from a really cool physical phenomena that we find everywhere. So, the bell curve' naturally aligns with how our primitive human brain often tries to characterize or visualize uncertainty. The other really cool thing about the bell curve (and lots of other curves that look like bells) is that if we find it in our reliability data, it automatically tells us where to look in order to improve reliability. If you want a basic introduction to one of the most common statistical concepts with NO EQUATIONS this is the webinar for you!
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 28 March 2023.
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Additional content that may be of interest
The 2 Parameter Normal Distribution 7 Formulas article
The Normal Distribution article
QDD 013 When it's Not Normal: How to Choose from a Library of Distributions episode
How do I Test my Data for Normality? article
When it's Not Normal: How to Choose from a Library of Distributions episode
Making Use of Reliability Statistics
Let's find the motivation to use reliability statistics and find the resources to learn the statistical tools necessary to succeed.
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R Software and Reliability
Let's explore R software's many capabilities concerning reliability statistics from field data analysis, to statistical process control.
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Reliability Distributions and Their Use
Let's explore an array of distributions and the problems they can help solve in our day-to-day relaibility engineering work.
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Practical Application of DOE
Perry discusses the basics of DOE (design of experiments) and fundamentals so you can get started with they useful product development tool.
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Fundamentals of Sample Size Determination
Let's discuss the 6 basic considerations to estimate the necessary sample size to support decision making.
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Fundamentals of Measurement System Analysis
When we make a measurement, we inform a decision. It's important to have data that is true to the actual value.
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Creating Effective Reliability Graphics
One of the first things I learned about data analysis was to create a plot, another, and another. Let the data show you what needs attention.
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PDFs, CDFs, and other ‘Fs’ What the hell are they?
If you want a really easy introduction or review of these functions that help inform a decision then check out this webinar.
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Discrete Distributions
Sometimes we have to work out how many of them we need (if they make up a fleet) or how many spare parts we need to keep them running.
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Why We Use Statistics
Let's explore the ways we use, or should use, statistics as engineers. From gathering data to presenting, from analyzing to comparing.
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How to Check a Regression Fit
Let's explore what residuals are, where they come from, and how to evaluate them to detect if the fitted line (model) is adequate or not.
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Basic Mathematical Symbols and Stuff
This webinar is a light (re)introduction into common mathematical symbols used in many engineering scenarios including reliability.
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Confidence in Reliability
Reliability is a measure of your product or system. Confidence is a measure of you. But we often forget this.
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Practical Measurement Systems Analysis for Design
How to calculate Gage discrimination - the more useful result for a design situation, and even how to use it for destructive tests.
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What is the Weibull Distribution?
For those who conduct reliability data analysis or turning a jumble of dots (data points) into meaningful information
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Where does the Bell Curve come from?
It is not just a pretty shape' that seems to work, It comes from a really cool physical phenomena that we find everywhere.
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Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing
Let's examine a handful of parametric and non-parametric comparison tools, including various hypothesis tests.
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Understanding (how bad) the Exponential Distribution (is)
You need to have a good idea of the probability distribution of the TTF of your product when it comes to reliability engineering.
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What is the ‘3 Parameter’ Weibull Analysis
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What is the Lognormal Distribution
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Confidence is a Measure of You
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Mar 14, 2023 • 0sec
Building a Reliability Plan
Building a Reliability Plan
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
This is an overview of the six steps to achieve high reliability from Carl and Fred's book. Creating and executing a reliability plan that assists the team in designing, manufacturing, and supporting meeting reliability objectives takes effort. Let's discuss the details of that effort so that you can focus on the critical steps.
Grabbing the plan from the last project with minor tweaks may seem efficient, yet it is rarely useful. Or, doing the standard set of tasks we always do makes creating a reliability plan easy. Yet, a plan to significantly improve the chance of meeting reliability targets does require creating a unique plan for the current situation. From understanding the reliability vision to execution, each step helps to improve the chances of success and improves the organization's reliability maturity.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 14 March 2023.
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Related Content
The Process of Reliability Engineering book
Putting Reliability Plans Together episode
The Need for Proper Reliability Plan episode
Tips For Building a Reliability Plan episode<
Where to Start to Create a Reliability Plan episode
Building a Reliability Plan
Let's discuss how to build an effective reliability plan that fits your specific situation. The key is to add value with each step.
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Create a Meaningful Environmental Test Plan
Let's explore the steps and resources you should consider when creating an environmental test plan for each product.
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Basic Steps to Building Your Reliability Plan
Let's discuss the basic elements and critical questions as you build your reliability plan fitting the right tasks to each situation.
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Selecting the Right Reliability Tools
There are dozens of reliability tools. How does a reliability practitioner know which specific tools to use in a new reliability program?
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Creating an Effective Reliability Plan
A Reliability plan is a guide to achieve the organization's reliability objectives. A few steps and considerations will make a plan effective.
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Selecting Reliability Engineering Tools
The selection hinges on knowing what is available, understanding the current situation, and available information, plus ...
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Essential Reliability Engineering Techniques
Your science, engineering, and math formal training will serve you well as a reliability engineer, and that is not enough to be successful.
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6 Essential Reliability Engineering Formulas
Using a formula requires understanding the purpose, limitations, and assumptions involved. It also requires using the right formula.
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Reliability as a Process
The idea is to explore in detail why we think achieving reliability objectives is best done using a process approach.
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Deliberate Reliability Testing
Let's explore the many reasons to conduct testing and how to clearly link those tests to the decisions that rely on the test results.
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Dealing with Small Sample Sizes
Let's discuss approaches that enable you and your team first to have the right number of samples and then how to deal with too few samples.
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Building a Reliability Plan updated
This is an overview of the six steps to achieve high reliability from Carl and Fred's book. Creating and executing a reliability plan
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Selecting a Reliability Method
As reliability engineers, we generate information for the use of decision-makers. It is how we influence decisions that create value.
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Linking Customer Needs to Product Requirements and Robust Design
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Feb 28, 2023 • 0sec
What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)?
What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Some of you have heard of HALT (and I don't mean someone asking you to stop). HALT is a very powerful form of testing that really helps us improve the robustness and reliability of new products. So what is HALT? HALT is a targeted test strategy to stress your amazing new product to (and beyond) its limits. Which means HALT will break your product (or prototype). Over and over again. Some people ask so what of course it was going to break when you pushed it that hard?' But there is a method to this madness. And many organizations have used HALT to create amazing new products that are robust and reliable very quickly (with competitors struggling to understand why). Want to learn more? See you at this webinar!
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 28 February 2023.
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Additional content that may be of interest
SOR 459 Where to Learn About HALT Today episode
A HALT Plan Question episode
Introduction to HALT Highly Accelerated Life Testing with Dr. Christopher Jackson episode
Prework for HALT episode
Talking about HALT episode
Fundamentals of HALT
Just the fundamentals of HALT in this fast-paced event. HALT has value, the four steps, and a few examples of how it can go wrong.
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Fundamentals of Stress Screening
Stress screening does have a valuable purpose in specific circumstances. Let's talk about when and why you may conduct stress screening.
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What is Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT)?
This webinar will introduce you to Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) to help you and your organization identify the vital few quicker.
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Feb 14, 2023 • 0sec
The State of Reliability Education
The State of Reliability Education
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
We have many options to learn reliability engineering books, magazines, newsletters, conferences, seminars, etc. We have options. Some options are better than others, depending on what you want to know. Likewise, some options are better than others, depending on what you want to share.
Formal learning in school is just the beginning of our education. To thrive in your career, you really should continue to learn. Given all the options available, how does one choose which to focus on?
Let's explore the options available, the pros and cons, and a simple strategy to make professional development a routine part of your ongoing education.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 14 February 2023.
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Additional content that may be of interest
Accendo Reliability recorded webinars
What Matters More Your Education or Your Experience with Angela Borella episode
Education and Skills Double Your Returns article
The Importance of Reliability Education article
Benefits of Reliability Education for the Entire Team episode
Successful Career in Reliability Engineering
This discussion explores the seven key traits talented, professional, networked, positive, valuable, studiousness, and mentoring ability.
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Getting Started with Reliability Engineering
Reliability Engineering is a daunting field. The technical breadth of skills spans material science to statistics.
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How to Prepare for the ASQ CRE Exam
Let's discuss the exam and certification in general, then how to prepare for the exam and exam day strategy for this timed test.
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Does a Certification Make You a Professional Reliability Engineer?
Certifications based on your reliability engineering knowledge does not make you a professional. It is the applies knowledge that does.
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How to Build Your Influence as a Reliability Engineer
Build your influence: This webinar explores how we, as reliability professionals, can improve our ability to influence.
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A Review of the 2018 ASQ CRE Body of Knowledge
With the changes to topics, it attempts to reflect what reliability engineers do daily. Let's take a close look and discuss what it means.
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Improve Your Reliability Teaching Skills
As a reliability professional you will be asked to teach. Let's explore becoming an amazing teacher and improve your effectiveness.
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How is Reliability Engineering Changing?
What's coming to reliability engineering in 2020 and beyond? Let's explore a few trends and their implications.
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Why Reliability Engineering Is Important
When you examine what we do, it is important to our fellow engineers, our organization, our customers, and society.
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How to Learn Reliability Engineering
Let's take a look at a few ways to really learn what you need to know along your journey to become a reliability engineer.
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Reliability Engineering versus Quality Engineering
Let's explore similarities and differences along with how to best work together to achieve results and areas of overlap and confrontation.
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Looking Forward with Reliability Engineering
Looking Forward with Reliability Engineering is about understanding the decisions that the information we should create will inform.
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Being a Great Reliability Engineer
Let's explore the various stages of a career in reliability engineering, from getting started, to being competent, to becoming great.
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The State of Reliability Education
Let's explore the range of options available, pros and cons, and a simple strategy to make professional development routine.
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How to Get Unstuck
In this presentation, Greg Hutchins will explain how to Get Unstuck: Do Good. Be Happy based on the Working It book.
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Fundamentals of a Professional Development Plan
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Jan 24, 2023 • 0sec
What is Accelerated Life Testing or ALT?
What is Accelerated Life Testing or ALT?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Sounds simple right? We simply test faster! Great! But what does this get us? Many organizations are faced with a dilemma when it comes to testing to MEASURE reliability. If we test an amazing new product in at use' conditions, it might take many years before it will fail. This is time we simply don't have when it comes to product development. So, how do we test faster? One of the more obvious answers is to increase the stress. Turn the temperature up. Increase the vibration. Use more voltage. But how do we get this right? How can we know that (for example) one week of accelerated testing is equivalent to 10 years of actual use? This webinar will help introduce you to the idea of Accelerated Life Testing, or ALT, to help you and your organization make reliability testing a reality.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 24 January 2023.
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Additional content that may be of interest
An ALT Design Question episode
ALT Sample Size episode
ALT Design using Damage Bins article
ALT Planning Questions episode
ALT Allocation of Test Units 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.
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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
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Fundamentals of ALT
A description of why and how to accomplish ALT, accelerated life testing, to support better decision making in your organization.
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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.
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Acceleration Factors with Examples
Acceleration factors translate one stress level to another, which is rather useful for accelerated life test interpretation.
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How to Plan an ALT
Let's explore the many elements that become inputs to creating a plan for your next accelerated life test.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alternatives to a Long ALT
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What is Accelerated Life Testing (ALT)?
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Dec 13, 2022 • 0sec
Design for Reliability - Stressors
Design for Reliability – Stressors
podcast episode with speaker Michael Pfeifer
Any product is a collection of materials that have been engineered, shaped, and modified to become components and joints (e.g., weld and braze joints). The materials can degrade due to exposure to use conditions steel screws corrode when exposed to water, some plastics become brittle when exposed to sunlight, and coatings on surfaces can wear away.
Components and joints will stop functioning as required if their materials degrade too much. This is a problem if it reduces or loses product performance before the end of a product's expected life.
Identifying the conditions to which materials are exposed and selecting materials that can withstand the exposure are critical parts of designing products that have good reliability.
During this event, I will discuss identifying the conditions that can cause materials to degrade.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 13 December 2022.
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Additional content that may be of interest
Design for Reliability – Identifying Stressors article
Reliability Testing – Product vs Materials article
Using DFR Tools episode
Where to Start with DfM & DfR with Fred Schenkelberg episode
Why DFR is Essential episode
Reliability and Tolerance Analysis
Tolerance specification communicates the allowance for part variation. Variation happens, and when it is within what we expect, great.
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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.
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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.
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Process Capability, Tolerance, and Reliability
How a focus on variability with process control, process capability and tolerances helps to improve reliability.
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Fundamentals of Stress-Strength Analysis
How a focus on variability with process control, process capability and tolerances helps to improve reliability.
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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.
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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.
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Fundamentals of Tolerance Analysis
There are three approaches to set tolerance limits. Each has ramifications for the eventual manufacturability and reliability performance.
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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?
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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
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Fault Tolerance
Fault tolerant design principles are the best approach to reliability. Or not. It depends on your design challenges.
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Helping Products Survive Transportation
Besides building your product inside your customer's facility, your product requires transportation to move your product.
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What is Reliability Growth?
This webinar introduces you to the topic of reliability growth (both qualitative and quantitative) along with key concepts
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Design for Reliability – Stressors
I will discuss the identification of conditions that cause materials to degrade. Understanding stressors is good for design for reliability
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Fundamentals of Derating
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Nov 22, 2022 • 0sec
Why Redundant Systems Aren't Always Redundant
Why Redundant Systems Aren’t Always Redundant
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Redundancy has continually proven not always to be redundant. Whether the Fukushima nuclear power plant or United Airlines Flight 232, additional components or subsystems that are supposed to take over when others have failed don’t always work. Why is that? There are quite a few reasons … many of which we already know about. But time and time again, otherwise, smart people choose to ignore what we know about how to REALLY make things redundant in order to save costs, save thinking, or otherwise confuse efforts with outcomes. In this webinar, we will look at how redundancy is described in textbooks … and how it can go wrong in the real world.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 22 November 2022.
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Additional content that may be of interest
Common mode failures
Redundancy Risk Balance episode
Redundancy by Design episode
Backup Balance episode
Reliability Apportionment and How to Do It
Reliability apportionment is a power tool to enable your team to make decisions while fully considering the reliability impact.
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Fundamentals of RBD
Reliability Block Diagrams are a useful and simple tool to encourage reliability discussions and improved decisions.
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Fundamentals of Physics of Failure
Let's consider physics of failure (PoF) models, how to use them, plus how to create them, as a central element of your reliability program.
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Fundamentals of Monte Carlo Analysis
The Monte Carlo method is a relatively simple process that permits you to create models that include the naturally occurring variability.
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3 Ways to Do Reliability Allocation
Having a reliability target for your product is great. But how does that help all the little design teams? Use subgroup targets.
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Reliability Life Models
Failure is a random process. Which means we can't predict with absolute certainty when something will fail. Enter 'reliability life models.'
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What is a ‘Fault Tree’?
Join us for this webinar to learn more about how fault trees can help you ... regardless of what you are trying to achieve.
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Why Redundant Systems Aren’t Always Redundant
Redundancy has continually proven to not always be redundant. Let's explore a few reasons this occurs. And, how to judge your system.
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Reliability of a K out of N' System
There are K out of N' systems that need K' components out of a total of N' components to work for the system to work.
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What are ‘Cut Sets’?
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Nov 8, 2022 • 0sec
Reliability Occurs at the Point of Decision
Reliability Occurs at the Point of Decision
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
The reliability performance of a product or system exists because the decisions that occur during the creation of the product establish how well an item will survive without failure. The choice of material, finish, or technologies, along with all the other decisions involved, define how well a product performs, including its reliability.
The testing, analysis, study, reviews, etc, done by reliability professionals do not directly create a reliable solution. The work we do provides information that, if used, influences decisions. By focusing on the key decisions that most influence the reliability of a product, we add the most value through our work.
In this webinar, let's explore the relationship between reliability engineering and decisions, plus how we can best inform those decisions. Plus, let's examine how to identify decisions that would benefit from the results of reliability engineering work and a few examples of how to influence decisions across the organization.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 8 November 2022.
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Related Content
The Process of Reliability Engineering book
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
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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oct 25, 2022 • 0sec
What is the Weibull Distribution?
What is the Weibull Distribution?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Whether new to reliability or a veteran, you have probably heard about the Weibull distribution. It has almost mythical status amongst those who conduct reliability data analysis or in other words turning a jumble of dots (data points) into information that actually means something. So why do we worship' the Weibull distribution? What is so special about it? Whether you have been doing this for a long time or five minutes, you will get something out of this webinar that looks at one of the most popular tools for reliability analysis.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 25 October 2022.
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Related Content
What is Weibull Distribution? episode
The Weibull Library article
When it's Not Normal: How to Choose from a Library of Distributions episode
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The WHAT and, More Importantly, The WHY of the Weibull Analysis article
Making Use of Reliability Statistics
Let's find the motivation to use reliability statistics and find the resources to learn the statistical tools necessary to succeed.
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R Software and Reliability
Let's explore R software's many capabilities concerning reliability statistics from field data analysis, to statistical process control.
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Reliability Distributions and Their Use
Let's explore an array of distributions and the problems they can help solve in our day-to-day relaibility engineering work.
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Practical Application of DOE
Perry discusses the basics of DOE (design of experiments) and fundamentals so you can get started with they useful product development tool.
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Fundamentals of Sample Size Determination
Let's discuss the 6 basic considerations to estimate the necessary sample size to support decision making.
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Fundamentals of Measurement System Analysis
When we make a measurement, we inform a decision. It's important to have data that is true to the actual value.
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Creating Effective Reliability Graphics
One of the first things I learned about data analysis was to create a plot, another, and another. Let the data show you what needs attention.
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PDFs, CDFs, and other ‘Fs’ What the hell are they?
If you want a really easy introduction or review of these functions that help inform a decision then check out this webinar.
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Discrete Distributions
Sometimes we have to work out how many of them we need (if they make up a fleet) or how many spare parts we need to keep them running.
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Why We Use Statistics
Let's explore the ways we use, or should use, statistics as engineers. From gathering data to presenting, from analyzing to comparing.
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How to Check a Regression Fit
Let's explore what residuals are, where they come from, and how to evaluate them to detect if the fitted line (model) is adequate or not.
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Basic Mathematical Symbols and Stuff
This webinar is a light (re)introduction into common mathematical symbols used in many engineering scenarios including reliability.
See More
Confidence in Reliability
Reliability is a measure of your product or system. Confidence is a measure of you. But we often forget this.
See More
Practical Measurement Systems Analysis for Design
How to calculate Gage discrimination - the more useful result for a design situation, and even how to use it for destructive tests.
See More
What is the Weibull Distribution?
For those who conduct reliability data analysis or turning a jumble of dots (data points) into meaningful information
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Where does the Bell Curve come from?
It is not just a pretty shape' that seems to work, It comes from a really cool physical phenomena that we find everywhere.
See More
Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing
Let's examine a handful of parametric and non-parametric comparison tools, including various hypothesis tests.
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Understanding (how bad) the Exponential Distribution (is)
You need to have a good idea of the probability distribution of the TTF of your product when it comes to reliability engineering.
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What is the ‘3 Parameter’ Weibull Analysis
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What is the Lognormal Distribution
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Confidence is a Measure of You
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Oct 11, 2022 • 0sec
Focus on Failure Mechanisms
Focus on Failure Mechanisms
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
In my opinion, as I do not know if this is true or not, every product or system failure has a cause. Causes are not exactly the same as what we call failure mechanisms', yet they are related in many cases. One more term to consider is failure mode', which refers to the symptoms or results of a failure.
Let's focus on failure mechanisms in the discussion. During design, manufacturing, and use, it is the mechanism information that we can use. We can design out failure mechanisms, minimize their introduction, and delay their occurrence via maintenance. For a failure analysis to succeed, we need to understand the mechanism(s) at play well to move forward. To design an effective screening test or accelerated life test, we need to know the mechanism(s) involved.
It may be safe to say failure mechanisms are at the heart of much of what we do in reliability engineering. Let's explore how something can fail and how understanding failure mechanisms makes a difference.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 11 October 2022.
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Listing of Failure Mechanisms episode
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Learning about Failures episode
Fundamentals of FRACAS
This webinar introduces you to the basic elements of FRACAS. Plus, we examine a few failed programs so that you can avoid problems.
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Fundamentals of Root Cause Analysis
Let's discuss when you have sufficient understanding of a failure mechanism to implement a solution and a few common obstacles to avoid.
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Essential Reliability Engineering Concepts
Let's discuss the concept of failures along with a few other concepts universal to reliability engineering.
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Preventing Moisture and Corrosion Damage
The goal is to educate the audience on options to prevent electronic equipment failure used in enclosed spaces from corrosion.
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What is Fatigue?
Fatigue is interesting in that it allows something to fail without it ever being exposed to stresses that are beyond its strength.
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So What is the Root Cause?
This webinar takes you through a framework to explore the understand the root cause of a failure, something we can do something about.
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Focus on Failure Mechanisms
Let's explore the many ways something can fail and how understanding failure mechanisms makes a difference.
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Using Fault Trees to Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Discover the power of root cause analysis with fault trees. Uncover the hidden causes of failure and improve your reliability process.
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Fundamentals of Early Field Results
Let's explore the concept of a delta phase and how to implement it in your organization. Plus, how to implement it in various product types.
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