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by JD Solomon Leave a Comment

Why Managing Dissenting Views is Critical for Good Group Decision Making

Why Managing Dissenting Views is Critical for Good Group Decision Making

Majority voting and consensus decision making are two distinct approaches to making decisions in group environments, each with its own characteristics and implications. Consensus decision-making is an alternative to debate and passage of proposals that can be approved through a majority vote. It does not emphasize the goal of the full agreement but instead focuses on acceptance or “living with it.” Choosing the right method for the context, and more importantly, managing the dissenting view, is important in making good group decisions.

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Filed Under: Articles, Communicating with FINESSE, Influence, on Systems Thinking Tagged With: Decision making, Facilitation

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

Introduction to the ISO 31K Risk Management Framework

Introduction to the ISO 31K Risk Management Framework

Guest Post by Peter Holtmann (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

This article is the first in our risk management series. The series will be taking a look at the risk management guidelines under the ISO 31000 Standard to help you better understand them and how they relate to your own risk management activities. In doing so we’ll be walking through the core aspects of the Standard and giving you practical guidance on how to implement it.

In this particular article, we’ll be introducing you to the ISO 31000 Standards, the guiding principles, and outlining the risk management framework.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Using Predictive Maintenance in a Plant Wellness Paradigm

Using Predictive Maintenance in a Plant Wellness Paradigm

Traditional Predictive Maintenance strategy results in out of control production from random planned equipment outages. A Plant Wellness strategy reduces the need for condition monitoring because you get ahead of failure and eliminate all root causes so there cannot be failure.

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Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance Management, on Maintenance Reliability

by Gabor Szabo 1 Comment

Density Curves (With a Reliability Engineering Example)

Density Curves (With a Reliability Engineering Example)

Today we look at a couple different ways to visualize the distribution of your data.

Understanding the distribution of your data can be useful for engineers undertaking various tasks. The fact of the matter is that there are many different ways in which one can get an idea of the distribution of the data they’re interested in, one of which is density curves.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Tools & Techniques, R for Engineering

by Sanjeev Saraf 1 Comment

Should The Cop Ticket Fred? Perils Of Performance-Based Regulations

Should The Cop Ticket Fred? Perils Of Performance-Based Regulations

When you are driving on a highway, usually there is a speed limit. If you exceed this limit, a cop can give you a ticket.

In Houston, most highways have a speed limit of 65-70 miles per hour…although most drivers appear to assume it implies “90-mph is okay”.

Let us say the city of Houston were to remove the speed restrictions.

Instead they put forward the mandate “drive safely”.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Risk & Safety, Operational Risk Process Safety

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

Sell Solutions Before There’s a Problem

Sell Solutions Before There’s a Problem

Guest Post by Daniel Burrus (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

So long as there are products and services offered by an organization, there will be the existence of a sales force.

The basic fundamentals of selling are simple: a customer expresses a desire for something and, in turn, someone sells them a product or service to address that desire. Essentially, sales are how an organization converts a “want” into a “need.” While these fundamentals are timeless, they are rooted in a reactive process.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Extreme Wear on the Back Plate of Centrifugal Pumps

Extreme Wear on the Back Plate of Centrifugal Pumps

Why is extreme wear occurring on the backing plate behind the impellers of these centrifugal pumps used for irrigation pumping service?

Engineering investigations into the causes of wear, erosion and metal loss on the back-plates behind the impellers of two year old centrifugal pumps pumping water about an irrigation system

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

3 Ways to Do RCM

3 Ways to Do RCM

There are two main ingredients for a successful reliability centered maintenance (RCM) analysis:

  1. First-hand knowledge of the asset and its operating environment.
  2. Strong understanding of the RCM process and its associated principles.
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Filed Under: Articles, Everyday RCM, on Maintenance Reliability

by Karl Burnett Leave a Comment

Mid-1700s: A Habit of 3-year Preventive Maintenance

Mid-1700s: A Habit of 3-year Preventive Maintenance

By 1792, six Royal Navy dockyards employed about 1500 workers each. The dockyards had a wider variety of technical specialties than was found in any other manufacturing enterprise. The dockyards “were some of the largest manufactories in Europe and dwarfed almost all private industries.” (Morriss) The dockyards built new ships, but maintaining ships was just as important. The Royal Navy’s dockyards constituted one of the largest industrial maintenance organizations in the world…and their only peer organizations in terms of the scale of maintenance management were the dockyards of other superpower navies.

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Filed Under: Articles, History of Maintenance Management, on Maintenance Reliability

by Sanjeev Saraf Leave a Comment

Worst Disasters

Worst Disasters

Generally speaking, 5-6 things have to go wrong for an incident to occur. Furthermore, these events or failures have to occur in a certain sequence.

The characteristics of mega disasters is that 5-6 events with fairly low probabilities of occurrence line up.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Risk & Safety, Operational Risk Process Safety

by JD Solomon Leave a Comment

Why Fist to Five is a Powerful Decision-Making Technique

Why Fist to Five is a Powerful Decision-Making Technique

Fist to five voting is a simple and effective way to gather group feedback or to gauge consensus in a meeting or discussion. In this method, participants are asked to rate their level of support for an idea or proposal on a scale of 1 to 5, using their fingers. However, fist to five is a decision-making technique that should be described in the project charter and agreed upon by all participants. Ample time should be allowed between the initial poll and the final vote for negotiation and agreement to occur. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Communicating with FINESSE, on Systems Thinking Tagged With: Decision making

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

Project Requirements are a Risk

Project Requirements are a Risk

Guest Post by John Ayers (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

Some common reasons why requirements can cause risk to a project are:

  • To be determined (TBD)
  • Late requirements definition
  • Unclear requirement definition
  • Changing requirements
  • Late requirement flow down to subcontractors
  • Incorrect or poorly defined interface documents

This paper explains how poorly defined requirements can impact the project.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

The Role and Responsibilities of the Engineering Manager

The Role and Responsibilities of the Engineering Manager

Advice on the Key Duties and Responsibilities of the Modern Engineering Manager Role

The duties of the engineering manager role usually include capital project management and maintenance management, two vital aspects that must be done exceedingly well in an industrial operation.

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Filed Under: Articles, Life Cycle Asset Management, on Maintenance Reliability

by Larry George Leave a Comment

Poll: “Is life data required…?”

Poll: “Is life data required…?”

My wife says I am wasting my time trying to change reliability statistics, so I polled the www.linkedin.com Reliability Leadership…, ASQRRD, IEEE Reliability, “Biostatistics, and No MTBF groups. The polls claimed that “Life data, censored or not, is required to estimate MTBF, reliability function, failure rate function, or survivor function. TRUE? FALSE? or DON’T KNOW.” I am grateful for the responses.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Tools & Techniques, Progress in Field Reliability?

by Sanjeev Saraf Leave a Comment

New Safety And Environmental Management System (SEMS) From MMS

New Safety And Environmental Management System (SEMS) From MMS

About a year ago, the Minerals Management Services (MMS) proposed a new rule that would require operators of oil and gas operations in the US Outer Continental Shelf to develop and implement Safety and Environmental Management System (SEMS).

It is expected that the rule will be promulgated sometime this year (2010).

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Filed Under: Articles, on Risk & Safety, Operational Risk Process Safety

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