Abstract

Dianna and Fred discussing routine reliability from a listener’s question: when creating a reliability plan for a project, how do we separate the routine and unique parts of reliability activities?

Key Points

Join Dianna and Fred as they discuss reliability planning: the technique and frameworks used to achieve reliability objectives.

Topics include:

• why having a process to create a plan is much better than trying to use a standard plan
• some traps when trying to standardize
• packing for travel, root cause analysis

Watch for Fred and Carl’s new book about reliability planning, to be released soon!

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SOR 844 Routine ReliabilityDianna Deeney

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Show Notes

Have a standard process for how to CREATE a reliability plan. Don’t have a standard reliability plan. We first need to ask ourselves “why”? What is it we need to know this time? Then, what do we need to do?

Some questions to ask to put together a plan to achieve reliability objectives:

• What are we trying to achieve?
• What information do we know or don’t know?
• What are our constraints?
• How are we going to get that information to inform decisions?
• How do we monitor it?

Review a previous plan for lessons learned, to incorporate those into your new plan.

Some traps to be aware about:

• We tend to get asked, “How many samples do I need?” Instead, we should ask, “What type of information do we need to extract from samples?”
• Collecting test results out of habit without really doing anything with the results.
• Doing tests because we have the equipment and because that’s how we’ve always done it, but not really getting the answers we need to achieve those real reliability objectives.

SOR 793 Putting Reliability Plans Together

The Art of Creating a Reliability Plan