Reliability and Safety
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Carl and Fred discuss the difference between the body of knowledge of reliability and safety, and how they work together.
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SOR 1051 Reliability and Safety
About Carl S. Carlson
SOR 1050 A Curse of Reliability Engineers
A Curse of Reliability Engineers
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Carl and Fred discuss the importance of reliability engineering and customer service working together to increase reliability and safety from the customer point of view. It is very important to understand how customers actually use your product, and customer service staff are uniquely positioned to provide that insight.
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Quality Objective 1: FMEA PLAN
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning Thomas Edison
As summarized in the first article in this series, “New Series – The Quality of FMEAs,” each month, I will write an article focusing on one of the 14 FMEA Quality Objectives. The intent is to provide insights and application tips for evaluating how well an FMEA meets the quality objectives. By learning to apply FMEA quality objectives, you can help to ensure that product designs and manufacturing processes are safe and reliable. If you didn’t read the introductory article, now is a good time to read it, since it explains FMEA Quality Objectives, and how they are used to create high-quality FMEAs.
In this article, I will outline how to evaluate an FMEA Plan against the FMEA Quality Objective for FMEA Plans.
Principles of Effective Teaching – A Summary
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” — Socrates
Reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. If you want to convey knowledge to another person, you are teaching. If you want to learn from another person who is teaching, you will benefit from learning these principles.
What is effective teaching?
Effective teaching results in the target knowledge and skills being conveyed to the student, with each student having a working knowledge of the content, and able to apply the subject matter successfully. You have successfully taught a subject when students understand the material and have attained the ability to apply the skills for the subject being taught. [Read more…]
New Series – The Quality of FMEAs
“Quality is not act. It is a habit.” – Aristotle
This month will begin a new series of articles on the quality of FMEAs, part of the Inside FMEAs series. The series will provide insights and application tips for evaluating how well an FMEA meets quality objectives. The intent is to create FMEAs that add value by accomplishing the objectives for FMEA, not filling out a form.
What is an FMEA Quality Objective?
We’ll begin with definitions from the Oxford English dictionary. “Quality” is defined as “the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something.” “Objective” is “a thing aimed at or sought; a goal.”
Building from the above definitions, FMEA quality objectives are specific goals or aims that measure the degree of excellence of an FMEA. [Read more…]
SOR 1038 FMEA and AI
FMEA and AI
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Carl and Fred discuss Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Artificial Intelligence. There are emerging integration opportunities and challenges, which will be discussed in this podcast.
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SOR 1037 NUDD
NUDD
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Carl and Fred discuss an interesting question from an Accendo listener. The question has to do with what is called NUDD: New, Unique, Difficult, Different.
Specifically the listener’s management wanted to know if their NUDD process could replace FMEA.
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SOR 1027 Executing the Plan
Executing the Plan
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Carl and Fred continue discussing the listener question about building an effective reliability program. After discussing some of the finer points about creating the reliability plan, the podcast focuses on execution of the reliability plan.
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SOR 1026 Starting a Reliability Program
Building a Reliability Program
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Carl and Fred discuss a voice message received on the Accendo Reliability “speak pipe.” The caller is trying to build a reliability program at his company. The company already has a good testing program, but needs to supplement with support for reliability in design.
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SOR 1023 What Counts
What Counts
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Carl and Fred discuss a listener question about what type of field or test issues to count when assessing or estimating reliability in a project.
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Key Teaching Principle # 11: Prepare, Prepare, Prepare!
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer who wishes to convey knowledge to another person, this series will offer practical knowledge and advice.
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” Confucius
Like any task in life, it is essential that instructors prepare well for each course being taught.
SOR 1022 Facilitator and Deep Understanding
Facilitator and Deep Understanding
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Carl and Fred discuss an Inside FMEA reader question: “does a facilitator have to have a deep understanding of the subject matter they are facilitating?”
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Key Teaching Principle # 10: Application
As covered in the first article in this series, Principles of Effective Teaching, reliability engineers, FMEA team leaders, and other quality and reliability professionals are often called upon to teach the principles of reliability or FMEA. Whether you are a student who wants to enhance your learning experience, an instructor who wants to improve teaching results, or an engineer who wishes to convey knowledge to another person, this series will offer practical knowledge and advice.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Leonardo da Vinci
Key Teaching Principle # 10 compels the instructor to ensure that each and every student learns how to apply the material being taught, in a variety of realistic scenarios. [Read more…]
SOR 1007 Pace of Facilitating
Pace of Facilitating
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Carl and Fred discuss the ideal pace for teaching and facilitating teams. Too fast and students or team members cannot keep up. Too slow and the team loses interest.
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SOR 1006 Reliability Ethics
Reliability Ethics
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Carl and Fred discuss the broad subject of reliability ethics, what it means, and how it impacts reliability professionals.
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