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There are three approaches to setting tolerance limits for design elements. Each has ramifications for the eventual manufacturability and reliability performance—design for manufacturability and reliability hinges on correctly setting design tolerances. [Read more…]
Chris and Fred discuss scenarios where it is (for whatever reason) impossible to demonstrate reliability through testing. Some organizations think that if you can’t demonstrate through testing … then it can’t be a requirement that appears in a specification. So … does this mean that the customer can’t get something that is reliable if we can’t test for it? … can customers even ask for it? Of course they can. The customer knows what they want. Everyone needs to understand that you can verify performance through activities that don’t involve testing (… like analysis). This is how it works for nuclear power plants … so what makes your organization special? Listen to this podcast if this intrigues you.
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Today’s episode turns the table on our usual format. Normally, I interview an industry expert. Today, I’m the subject of the interview. My friend and colleague Phil Stoten from Scoop TV interviewed me a few months ago where we discussed cleaning and cleanliness testing as method to improve reliability. This interview took place on a crowded and relatively noisy trade show floor, so pardon the background noise. Here’s that interview.
Condition monitoring is time-based solution to mitigating and preventing failures and it is a huge part of RCM or RCM R. RCM R is the advanced, updated version of RCM that entails predictive maintenance as the main technique to perform condition-based monitoring to improve asset performance. The reason that RCM and PDM fit together perfectly is because reliability can never be complete without having some sort of predictive maintenance method in place. Condition monitoring is the perfect tool for that. It also incorporates vibration analysis, oil analysis, and the use of infrared from time to time but it’s all a part of running PMs smoothly.
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On this week’s episode, I welcome Paul Goodbody on to the show. Paul is a level 3 thermographer and the IRISS. We talk about what we can detect using infrared cameras, how often we should take readings and Paul gives us some top tips for using thermography as a predictive maintenance tool.
I have released my own reliability, maintenance and asset management coaching, consulting and professional services offerings, check out robsreliability.com for more information and if I can help you become a better reliability engineer or your company achieve it’s reliability goals, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you.
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Carl and Fred continuing to discuss the subject of integrating reliability within a very fast product development timeline.
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How often should you have a planning meeting? How all should be invited? How long should it take? These are a few of the questions that we tackle in the next installment of Practical Reliability.
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Carl and Fred discussing how the approach to achieving high reliability needs to change when operating in a fast-to-market product development process.
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Data is the single important thing—whether it’s quality data, failure data or any other kind of data—that helps you make decisions in the best interest if your assets and the organization. You may have set data points but those don’t mean anything unless you know what you are looking for. When you take unstructured data, analyze it, and then turn it into meaningful information to improve manufacturing, it can be called manufacturing analytics. You can use it to make your reliability processes better or you can use it for performance measurement for your assets or personnel, it works great for both.
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Join us as we discuss the implementation of planning and what that entails on the next installment of Practical Reliability.
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This week on Rob’s Reliability Project, Lucas Marino guest hosts the show and puts me to the test. We talk about my experience running the podcast, what I’ve learned throughout my reliability career and what I think the differences between reliability and asset management are.
I have released my own reliability, maintenance and asset management coaching, consulting and professional services offerings, check out robsreliability.com for more information and if I can help you become a better reliability engineer or your company achieve it’s reliability goals, please email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com. I look forward to working with you.
In addition, if your company sells products or services to maintenance, reliability and asset management professionals and you would be interested in having your message spread to engaged industry professionals, tell your marketing manager about Rob’s Reliability Project. There are advertising options available from appearing on the podcast, video/picture content to having an ad read on the show. If one of those appeals to your company, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com to get more information.
If you haven’t signed up for my weekly reliability newsletter with extra exclusive content, go to http://robsreliability.com/email-list/ and sign up!
If you have any questions, business inquiries or if you’d like to appear on the podcast, email me at robsreliabilityproject@gmail.com
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Adam and Fred discussing the challenges and strategies for improving the reliability engineering community.
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Adam and Fred discussing The “Silver Bullet” approach to Reliability Engineering
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Predictive maintenance is a huge part of the overall reliability of your assets. Most of the times, equipment fails because of the bearing or seal failure. Bearing failures are very common in the facilities and improper installation of a bearing is one of the biggest reasons it fails. If you don’t do it right with proper tools, you are going to damage the bearing and it is only a matter of when rather than how. Before installing a bearing, you need to have a clean space and all the necessary tools should be with you when you are installing it.
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Fred Schenkelberg is an international authority on reliability engineering. He is the reliability expert at FMS Reliability, a reliability engineering and management consulting firm he founded in 2004. Fred left Hewlett Packard’s Reliability Team where he helped create a culture of reliability across HP to assist other organizations. His passion is working with teams to improve product reliability, customer satisfaction, and efficiencies in product development; and to reduce product risk and warranty costs. Fred has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the United States Military Academy and a Master of Science in Statistics from Stanford University.
