Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Katie and Fred discussing getting started in reliability engineering along with the importance of the soft skills in the engineering workplace.
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Katie and Fred discussing the gig economy and the expectation of careers over a lifetime.
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The leap towards becoming a best-in-class company is challenging. If you’re like most people, you might have wondered the difference between best in class companies and typical companies as far as reliability practices are concerned. While it’s true that there are other elements that are at play that make for a best-in-class company, one can’t deny that maintenance and reliability is one differentiating factor and a critical element at that.
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Rob and Fred discussing some of the consequences of not planning for reliability.
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James and Fred discussing good ways to use the cost of downtime to motivate improving reliability.
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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. In this short webinar, let’s discuss when and why you would use Weibull analysis, the basic process, and its limitations.
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In today’s labor market, recruiting and retaining skilled workers is still a challenge in the industrial sect. In the case of Scott MacKenzie who is the President of LEAF Services, a company that provides cost-effective industrial labor solutions, clients come to him to look for manpower who are safe, focused, and with industrial background. The problem? Clients’ demand for labor is urgent, and some may even request “I need people tomorrow”.
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James and Fred discussing resistance to change within an organization, sometimes based on poor assumptions and misunderstood theorems.
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Kirk and Fred discussing personal experiences in customer service and good and bad aspects of having an IPhone battery replaced.
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True enough, a reliable plant is a safe, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly plant. In compliance with safety laws and with workplace accidents becoming increasingly common, workplace safety is apparently one of the biggest challenge employers are facing today.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the understanding of HALT and the fact that many see as HALT, the finding of operational limits and weaknesses, as “just another tool in the reliability engineering tool bag” and how for Kirk it is most efficient approach to reliability development.
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Tim interviews Steven Wachs, a consultant, about his background and ongoing work as a statistician and consultant.
Adam and Fred discussing the method to characterise a products use environment.
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Adam and Fred discussing estimating use case and environment for your products during design.
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Andre and Fred discussing the challenges and some ideas on solutions when sourcing new technology from a vendor.
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