
Transferring Knowledge
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Carl and Fred discussing the process of knowledge transfer from one person to others. This process is at the core of influencing others to achieve reliability objectives.
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by Carl S. Carlson Leave a Comment

Carl and Fred discussing the process of knowledge transfer from one person to others. This process is at the core of influencing others to achieve reliability objectives.
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In this episode, I speak with Scott Henderson all about Condition Monitoring. He provides an great understanding of the different Condition Monitoring techniques, the P-F interval and the techniques which give us the maximum warning time. We talk about how important it is to consider not just the cost of performing the maintenance but to take into account the consequences of failure. The most important thing any Condition Monitoring Tech or engineer can do is to ensure that the recommendations are implemented and the assessment is closed out i.e. the root cause is identified which makes Scott and his team highly efficient and reliable.
You can learn more about Scott at https://thermalign.com.au/ and reach out to him via Email or LinkedIn.
by Dianna Deeney Leave a Comment


We’re uncovering risks during our new product development, about our design. How do we manage risks? What options do we have?
There are at least 5 options we can take to manage risks. We talk about each, and how quality and reliability methods and techniques may help us with the next steps to be able to make decisions with our team.
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Greg and Fred discuss the importance of management and leadership. They cover the similarities and differences between the two.
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George Williams and Ramesh Gulati discuss Industry 4.0!
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Greg and Fred discuss the importance and challenges of networking.
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As a design engineer, you’re tasked with translating vague customer statements into something technical and measurable. And you also need to identify what requirements are important: filtering the “must meet” requirements against the “should have” requirements. And, finally, you need to do this with your cross-functional team.
What if you miss something important?
It’s difficult. There is a method that we can use. Let’s talk about the House of Quality and how you can use it no matter where you work.
by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Both reliability and maintenance activities work to reduce failures and downtime. Perfect reliability of a system would eliminate the need for maintenance. Perfect maintenance would keep even poorly designed (reliability-wise) operating.
Together, the work of reliability and maintenance professionals can achieve more than each team working separately. Each brings a set of insights and skills to the conversation. Working together means improving the design of a system so it’s easier to maintain. It also means the maintenance teams’ day-to-day observations provide meaningful information to the reliability team.
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Today, we’re going to talk about cleanliness testing of post-reflowed circuit assemblies. In late 2018, IPC shocked the electronic assembly community by introducing an amendment to section 8 of the J-STD-001G. This amendment radically changed the way industry determines cleanliness. Now, assemblers must prove their assemblies are clean enough not to experience electro-chemical migration events which would cause the assembly to fail.
This new process of obtaining objective evidence has been met with a considerable degree of confusion. To help clear up the confusion, I invited Graham Naisbitt to be my guest. Graham is an IEC 1906 Lord Kelvin Award Winner, IEC TC91 WG2, 3 and 10 Maintenance Leader of 4 Standards.
Graham is Vice-Chair of the IPC 5-30 Cleaning and Coating Sub-Committee which oversees 15 IPC Standards Development Committees and recipient of 14 IPC Standards Awards. Graham is also a British Standards Institution EPL-501 Member.
Graham is a specialist in Surface Insulation Resistance Testing, Ionic Contamination Control, Solderability, Conformal Coating materials and application systems, Cleaning, Inspection and Test.
Graham’s Webinar:
“Predicting Reliability in Electronics” with experts Graham Naisbitt
and Chris Hunt
https://iconnect007.com/index.php?cID=854
Graham’s Book:
“The Printed Circuit Assembler’s Guide to Process Validation”
https://iconnect007.com/my-i-connect007/books/process-validation/
Graham’s Contact Info:
graham.naisbitt@gen3systems.com
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Why Maintenance & Reliability Communications Goes Wrong, and How to Fix it!
In Maintenance and Reliability, communication may be the most important skill set to have, whether talking with production, asking for budget approval, or getting that promotion, yet this skill set is never taught in class or any reliability certification path.
As Maintenance and Reliability leaders, we often need to take complex technical information and make it more understandable for our audience, after all, we are the experts and they likely aren’t. But having so much knowledge on the topics we discuss often makes simplifying the information more difficult, leading to technical jargon and a story that is not re-tellable after the presentation. This is known as the “curse of knowledge”, and there is a way to overcome it and still have a lasting impact.
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How do we measure the planning and scheduling process? George Williams and Ramesh Gulati dive deeper into why we do so in the Reliability field.

Dianna and Fred discussing design reviews and independent reviewers.
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This week I’m joined by Suzane Greeman to discuss asset management and why your business processes are holding you back from achieving your reliability goals.
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If you have quality friends, you may have heard of Gemba. What is Gemba and can it help with product design?
Gemba is an ideology.
And, yes, it can help with product design!
We explore how and talk about why you might want to adopt the term “Gemba” for product design engineering.
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