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I define a reliability failure as something that costs your organization money. It might be a warranty expense or a lost customer. A failure may also create customer expenses, too. Let’s talk about the range of un-reliability costs and their impacts.
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Do you plan for every factor that can influence the performance of your systems? Are the environmental conditions too much of a problem for you? There are several external factors that influence a reliability improvement program. You can never get the desired output if you don’t try different inputs and see the varied results for yourself and then test and analyze each favorable result until you are satisfied with them. But there is not always enough budget lying around for you to do experimentation just like that. Some companies have a limited budget and tight deadlines and you have to plan for those external factors according to the environmental conditions that your equipment has to face.
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Adam and John Kreucher discussing how the application of reliability tools and methods differs by industry
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Fred and Philip Sage discussing the possible source of the widespread use of MTBF.
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There are a lot of organizations who buy systems that cost less initially because of limited budget or due to a number of other reasons. They never even bother to bring in the financial or operations experts to get more information from the suppliers about the equipment they are going to purchase. Does it perform all the functions we need? Does it have that built-in reliability mechanism? Will it serve the purpose even? They don’t ask these questions because the initial buying cost is less or fits in with the budget. This is a mistake that leads to expensive maintenance later on.
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Tim interviews Rob Allen a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning quality, reliability and phase gate product development processes.
Adam and Fred discussing Reliability Standards and how to use them
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Adam and Fred discussing how to ensure reliability test and analysis tool output affects program decisions
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The reliability and maintenance process is never static in the organizations. There’s always something going on around and there are many activities being performed in the company. Now, these activities take time and need money to be done successfully. There are many activities in this list that will cost you millions sometimes. So, how do we get that kind of investment from our financiers? Some of the stakeholders can be convinced by merely good talks and promises of great success but the technical personnel who have spent all their lives running businesses, they can’t be persuaded by such means.
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Carl and Fred discuss how fear can keep us from achieving our goals, and strategies to overcome our fears.
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Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of leadership, and how it applies to reliability engineering and management.
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Every once in a while, there comes an amazing new technology that changes the way of living for people. Internet of Things and Big data are such trending technologies that have revolutionized the lives of everyone. With IoT, you can stay in touch with a lot of things like there are smart TVs, smart cars, and all those wonderful appliances that make your everyday household work easier to a great level of comfort. There is another side of IoT and that is Industrial IoT or IIoT. There are so many changes going around in the industry because of a huge wave of what IoT and Machine learning can do.
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Adam and Chris discussing methods for structure and implementation of Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
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Adam and Chris discussing the challenges of creating a new reliability organization as an individual.
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The ability to determine the root cause of a failure is a skill. It requires agility, leadership, inquisitiveness, diligence, and technical skill. Successful RCA taps into your creativity and technical prowess. Using a structured approach helps.
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