

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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Oct 26, 2021 • 0sec
Discrete Distributions
Discrete Distributions
how to use them for fleet planning and spare parts analysis
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
Once we have made something really reliable (or really available) then comes the part where 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. That is where discrete distributions are really helpful. They assign probabilities to discrete' random variables. These are random variables that can only have certain specified values. Like whole numbers. For example the number of failures you expect to see in a mission. Or the number of available systems out of a given fleet size. If this sounds like something that could help you out see you for this webinar!
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 26 October 2021.
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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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Oct 12, 2021 • 0sec
Fundamentals of Interpreting Test Results
Fundamentals of Interpreting Test Results
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
What role does wishful thinking' play in interpreting reliability test results? Hopefully, none. A well-designed test will likely provide meaningful results. You and your team may not like the results, yet the results will be clear.
From success testing to design of experiments based on accelerated life testing, from shipping and storage testing to ongoing reliability testing, we do a lot of testing. To create tests and results that are meaningful, we need to both design and execute the test well, then, most importantly, interpret the results accurately.
The often-overlooked process of making assumptions is our focus for the discussion. What assumptions are we making, and how differences from those assumptions will impact how we may interpret the results? Let's discuss a few cases and highlight what to consider, assume, and check as you prepare to interpret your test results.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 12 October 2021.
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Collecting and Analyzing Your Field Data
Let's explore where the data comes from and how to prepare for analysis. Plus, let's discuss some ways to look at your data initially.
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Time to Failure Data Analysis for Your Factory Equipment
For repairable items, the mean cumulative function and associated plots provide you with an estimate of the effectiveness of your repairs.
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Reliability Data
We will discuss the pros and cons of various sources. Plus, let's examine a few ways to use simulations or models.
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Fundamentals of Weibull Analysis
The Weibull distribution is a versatile tool to analyze time to failure data. Like any tool, it could be wielded well or not so well.
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Fundamentals of Field Data Analysis
The design is done, the assembly process is working, now we can focus on answering the question: is the product hitting reliability targets?
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Weibull Probability Plotting
Data is only as useful as the information you derive. So would you like to take your Weibull probability plotting skills to the next level?
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Overview of Life Testing in Minitab
Minitab itself has many reliability functions available; this presentation covers the basics, including distributions, censoring, and fitting.
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The Survivorship Bias Principal
This webinar examines an important perspective. Its' so simple and has made many heroes in the data analysis world since Abraham Ward.
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So what is up with this Bayesian' analysis stuff
Some of you may have heard of Bayesian analysis.' You may think this is something fancy that only universities do.
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Reliability Analysis … now what? Part 2
Let's take a closer look at the concept of likelihood and it's role in an MCMC analysis. A powerful tool for data analysis.
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Reliability Analysis … now what? Part 3
This webinar is about how we use this thing called Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation (MCMC) to create this posse.'
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Reliability Analysis … now what? Part 4
We show you how to get your computer to help you give useful reliability information to your boss, manager, director, or whoever.
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Fundamentals of Interpreting Test Results
To create test results that are meaningful, we need to both design and execute the test well, then, interpret the results accurately.
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How to Take the Guess Work out of Expert Judgment
there are ways you can suck out information from a group of experts in a quantifiable and remarkably accurate way.
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What do you see in a ‘Probability’ Plot?
A Weibull plot is a really useful way of quickly looking' at data and being able to see' really useful things.
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What is WeiBayes Analysis?
WeiBayes is useful, and there are quite a few catches. Interested in learning about Weibayes analysis? Join us for this webinar.
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Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Sometimes the equations we need to model reliability are just so complicated that we simply avoid them. Let's use Monte Carlo instead.
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What is Weibull Probability Plotting?
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Sep 28, 2021 • 0sec
Reliability Life Models
Reliability Life Models …
how do you describe your system dying?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
OK that is a little macabre. However, reliability engineers need to ask themselves this question a lot. And there are a lot of wrong answers out there. Some textbooks say that it is commonly accepted' to use this thing called the exponential distribution. Other books say that if the Weibull shape parameter is 6 or greater redesign!' Do you have any idea what this means? If not, this webinar will be a nice little introduction for you!
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 28 September 2021.
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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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Sep 14, 2021 • 0sec
9 Ways Reliability is Green Engineering
9 Ways Reliability is Green Engineering
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
Reliable products are also green. This is a relatively simple argument: If an item is designed and built well, it lasts a long time, thus avoiding landfills. Years ago, when living in northern Bavaria, the apartment had a full bedroom set. The entire set was both beautiful and functional. When asked about the furniture, I learned it was over 300 years old.
Long-lasting products avoid landfills and the expense of replacement or repair, thus consuming fewer resources over their lifetime. The logic connecting reliability and products that minimize their environmental impact may also include ease of repair, simplicity of upgrading, the accuracy of troubleshooting, resilience to stress changes, availability of replacement parts, and more.
Visit a vehicle scrap yard to witness the impact of getting a new car' on the environment. Let's explore the many ways creating a reliable product is beneficial to the environment.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 14 September 2021.
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This webinar discusses the importance of estimated value and helps you discover and state the value of common reliability activities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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How to Make a Decision
This webinar takes you through the key steps of decision-making particularly relating to reliability engineering.
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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.
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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.
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Aug 10, 2021 • 0sec
Deliberate Reliability Testing
Deliberate Reliability Testing
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
Reliability testing is expensive. For that expense, the testing results should provide timely, meaningful results. Results that provide actionable information and insights.
The idea of running a set of standard tests or tests that we commonly run' in many cases has little value. Each test (experiment) should be conducted for specific reasons related to the current project and current knowledge.
Testing to discover failure mechanisms, to estimate time to failure behavior, or to confirm functionality under specific conditions are common reasons for testing. Starting with what needs to be known, or characterized is a great starting place to create reliability test plans deliberately.
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. By deliberately designing reliability testing you confidently create and run tests that will add value with meaningful results.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 10 August 2021.
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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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Jul 22, 2021 • 0sec
Fault Tolerance
Fault Tolerance
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
There comes a time in everyone's reliability journey' when it is either too hard or too expensive to keep perfecting your product, system, or service. Steel can only be so' pure. Clearances can only be so' accurate. Surfaces can only be so' smooth. And software can only be so' perfect. In fact, it might turn out to be better and cheaper to have two average' components, with one acting as a backup to the other. The premium' component might be too expensive or otherwise not as reliable as the backup system. Welcome to fault tolerance! This is where we design products, systems, or services to be able to handle faults, imperfections, deviations, errors, and lots of other things.
Fault tolerant design is the best approach to reliability. Or not. It depends on your design challenges. This webinar talks about fault tolerance in the hardware, software, and human domains of reliability. And how you can use these principles to make your product, system, or service that much more reliable (with minimum cost).
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 27 July 2021.
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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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Jul 13, 2021 • 0sec
7+ Basic Quality Tools
7+ Basic Quality Tools
podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg
I often describe reliability work as we do everything quality does, and we do it over time. Quality folks may disagree. What is not in dispute is that in reliability engineering, we use a lot of different quality’ tools. That is because many quality tools lend themselves to data analysis and problem-solving,
The 7 (maybe up to 9) basic quality tools provide a foundation for much of the reliability-related work we do daily. Having both awareness and mastery of these tools will enable you to quickly use basic tools to get a handle on the situation.
Let's explore cause-and-effect diagrams, check sheets, control charts, histograms, Pareto charts, scatter diagrams, stratification, run charts, and flowcharts. What they are, how and when to use them, plus a few things to consider when using them.
This Accendo Reliability webinar was originally broadcast on 13 July 2021.
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7+ Basic Quality Tools
Having both awareness and mastery of these tools will enable you to quickly use basic tools to get a handle on the situation.
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Reliability and Quality
Let's talk about how quality and reliability overlap and rely on each other's set of capabilities, plus where we differ.
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Fundamentals of Pareto Analysis
Let's explore the basics of conducting Pareto Analysis, plus a few different ways to create and modify the plots.
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Jun 22, 2021 • 0sec
So What is the Root Cause?
So What is the Root Cause?
podcast episode with speaker Chris Jackson
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 sorts 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.
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 22 June 2021.
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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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Jun 8, 2021 • 0sec
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Reliability Discussions
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.
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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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May 25, 2021 • 0sec
How to Make a Decision
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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How to Make a Decision
This webinar takes you through the key steps of decision-making particularly relating to reliability engineering.
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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.
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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.
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