Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Tim and Fred discuss some of the strategies used by companies to enlist the support of their suppliers to address quality problems and generally improve product reliability.
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Adam and Fred discussing the dilemma of too much data in an organization and not enough for reliability work.
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Tim interviews Chris concerning the academic work concerning decision making being built into autonomous vehicles. [Read more…]
Intro: Welcome to the E6S-Methods Lean Six Sigma Performance podcast with Jacob and Aaron, your weekly dose of tips and tricks to achieve excellent performance in your business and career. Join us as we explore deeper into the practical worlds of Lean, Six Sigma, Project Management and Design Thinking. In this episode number 181, we speak with reliability expert, Fred Schenkelberg, and get his take on the day in the life of a reliability engineer. [Read more…]
Ever wonder why your assets aren’t producing the value they are supposed to even if you have trained staff and big budgets? Are you a fan of Predictive maintenance improvement of your organizational processes? Then, condition monitoring is where you should start. The meaning of this word is as simple as the word itself. You just need to check the state of your asset on a regular basis and as the state of your asset change, you would know what possible failures that change can lead to and then you can try predictive maintenance strategies to stop that failure from occurring in the first place.
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Adam and Fred discussing the benefits of treating failures as nuggets of wonderful information.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the recent article Kirk and comments posted on LinkedIn regarding the estimated maintenance costs required for the F-35 Fighter Jet.
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The presence of women in different industries is a growing fact that cannot be denied. They are now involved in fields—from management to engineering—that were considered solely to be men’s and they are doing these jobs incredibly and competently. There are a very few platforms that emphasize on empowering the women and providing them with content that they need to get better at their jobs and be a valuable asset to the organizations they work for. Still, there is a large number of women who are making transitions to more technical jobs and WiRAM is one of those platforms where women can get the educational content and training they need to handle the asset management work and get ahead in the reliability and maintenance industry.
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Kirk and Fred discussing the issue of derating components to increase the reliability of the larger system. Although Fred and Kirk agree on most reliability topics, derating by the traditional reliability guidebooks is not one of them.
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A tool is only as useful as knowing when and how to use it. In this webinar we will discuss how to identify an appropriate DOE project, and how to set up (define) a DOE. A process for DOE execution will be provided and discussed. We will also provide the thought processes needed to know when a DOE application is present. [Read more…]
James and Fred discussing how factory equipment automation can create large amounts of data that may or may not be useful.
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Fred interviews Larry Leemis about his teaching, work, and recent book on R software.
John and Fred discussing the Lean Quality Functional Deployment as an effective way to incorporate the voice of the customer into the product development process.
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John and Fred discussing how lean and agile approaches fit within your reliability program.
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Risk is borne from uncertainty. The reliability performance of your product line and of individual products is fraught with uncertainty. Identifying and understanding the types of risks involved helps your team mitigate reliability performance risk.
An obvious risk and common question when developing a new product involves the field failure rate. If the failure rate is too high, it may dissuade customers from buying the product. If too low, we set assign funds unnecessarily to cover unrealized warranty expenses. [Read more…]