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There are dozens of quality and reliability tools. How does a reliability practitioner know which specific tools to use in a new reliability program. Should reliability allocation be used? Which types of FMEAs are needed? What about robust design or design margin analysis? How does one go about selecting the right reliability tools that will be incorporated into an effective reliability plan?
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) starts with brainstorming and ends with prioritized actions. A great tool to get your team thinking about system failures. Let’s explore the fundamental steps and beset practices to get value from your analysis.
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Every failure has valuable information you and your team require to make reliability improvements. During the development process each failure may represent a future recall. Celebrate every failure. Let your FRACAS prioritize which failures to resolve.
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Reliability testing is expensive, time-consuming, and fraught with errors. Is it really worth the effort? Is it necessary? Let’s explore relegating testing to only when absolutely necessary status. Let’s explore what you and your team can do to instead.
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Your team may understand the system reliability goal, yet they should know the goal for the element they are addressing. Let’s discuss why you must do reliability apportionment. Plus, let’s explore how it benefits your team.
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Creating a plan is necessary both for budgeting and buy in. The added focus on reliability will help your team achieve it’s reliability goals. Plus, a good plan helps build your credibility and program. Let’s explore how to build a reliability plan. [Read more…]
You have carefully crafted a detailed reliability goal including function, environment, probability, and duration, plus apportioned it to critical supplied subsystems and components. Your vendor decides to use MTBF instead.
What can you do? What should you do?
We have data. Often an abundance of data concerning equipment failures. Failures per month or MTBF type measures do not reveal sufficient insights to understand the pattern of failures.
We often have more data than we can to use. For time to failure, warranty claims, and related field data, we should take the time to learn what we can. Let’s explore organizing your field data and use basic techniques let the data speak.
Establishing a reliability goal for a project is often done early.
You may already know the reliability goal provides guidance to the entire development and supply chain team.
Yet, what is the actual value setting a reliability goal?
Let’s discuss sources of variation and how to measure, monitor, and control processes to minimize the differences from one part to the next.
Statistical process control (SPC) is a set of tools that provide insights into the changing nature of processes.
Good with data or failure analysis are elements of a great reliability engineer.
Another is the ability to influence. The perfect analysis and dynamic slide deck are not sufficient. You also must master the ability to persuade, to influence.
The investment in creating a reliable product pays dividends during the operation of the equipment or system.
The ability to estimate future savings or costs based on reliability engineering is key. Minimizing lifecycle cost occurs with reliability.
Obtaining certifications based on your reliability engineering knowledge does not make you a professional. It is how you apply your knowledge that does. Let’s explore what it means to be a professional reliability engineer.
It is how you apply your knowledge that does. Let’s explore what it means to be a professional reliability engineer.
We cheat time. As reliability engineers, we are asked to peer into the future and predict the time to failure for our products and systems.
So, how do you go about setting up an accelerated life test? There are options that work, and some that do not.