Hidden Reliability
Abstract
Carl and Fred discuss the challenges of hidden reliability problems, especially issues that are certain to occur, but not easily observed. When failures are invisible or hidden, they can be missed or ignored.
Key Points
Join Carl and Fred as they discuss the importance of making reliability issues visible. Topics include:
- “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it”
- Part of reliability’s job is to make potential failures visible to users and management before they become catastrophic
- This is why preventive maintenance is important
- How to make accumulated damage or hidden failures more visible
- It is very expensive to wait until a failure to fix the problem
- Implemeting Prevention takes a company culture
- Deferred maintenance
- Deming quote (see Show Notes)
Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.
Show Notes
Deming quote from “Out of the Crisis”
“One gets a good rating for fighting a fire. The result is visible, can be quantified. If you do it right the first time, you are invisible. Mess it up and correct it later, you become a hero.”
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