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PR S5E2: Unveiling KPIs for Organizational Excellence

PR S5E2: Unveiling KPIs for Organizational Excellence

Unveiling KPIs for Organizational Excellence

In this half-hour podcast, we bring you expert discussions, and actionable insights to guide you through the dynamics of KPI’s and metrics in reliability. Join us as we explore the nuanced world of reliability KPIs, shedding light on a fundamental truth: successful strategies are rooted in a deep understanding of organizational objectives. Many professionals overlook the pivotal role that alignment with objectives plays in creating a reliability strategy that truly works.

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Risk Based Auditing

Risk Based Auditing

Risk-Based Auditing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

podcast episode with speaker Greg Hutchins

Risk-based auditing (RBA) is all about risk management. Risk-based auditing is simply risk transfer from the auditee to the auditor.

In today’s uncertain world, the lens for most, if not all, problem-solving and decision-making is risk. Risk-based auditing is a must-have tool for all quality and reliability professionals. ALL ISO management systems require RBA, whether 1st, 2nd, or 3rd party audits. [Read more…]

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WQW 013: Waste Is Not The Enemy

WQW 013: Waste Is Not The Enemy

Waste Is Not The Enemy

In the Quality and Continuous Improvement world, it’s common to focus on waste reduction as the enemy to success. However, I don’t think that waste is the enemy of the Quality Warrior. Not that waste is good, but the obviousness of waste as a bad thing actually blinds those of us teaching and coaching continuous improvement to the genius of the Toyota Production System.

Looking at the role of waste as it affects profit, other ways to reduce cost and some of the consequences are discussed.

I reference plastic injection molding in the discussion. In case you are not familiar with the process, here’s a link to a good overview video on YouTube: engineerguy Plastic Injection Molding

All episodes and episode notes are at Way of the Quality Warrior website

You can also contact the host Keith Fong there or on LinkedIn Keith Fong on LinkedIn

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SOR 927 Reliability from WWII

SOR 927 Reliability from WWII

Reliability from WWII

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Chris and Fred discuss some of the things we have learned in the world of reliability directly due to World War II. Not many people know that around one third of today’s medical vaccines were developed out of necessity from World War II … and something similar happened when it came to making things reliable.
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SOR 926 Just Assuming

SOR 926 Just Assuming

Just Assuming

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Chris and Fred discuss what it means to ‘assume’ something. We assume things all the time in our daily lives. We would never get anything done if we didn’t rely on quick ‘guesses’ about the world around us. But then there are those ‘assumptions’ that get us in trouble. So what’s the difference?
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MC 020 Five Key Metallurgy Concepts

MC 020 Five Key Metallurgy Concepts

Five Key Metallurgy Concepts

In this episode I discuss five key metallurgy concepts that apply to all metals and are necessary to understand to be able to apply metallurgy to
  • Produce stock metal
  • Design and fabricate low-cost, reliable components.
  • Figure out the root cause of component failures and production quality problems.

See this blog post on the five concepts to learn more https://www.imetllc.com/five-key-metallurgy-concepts/

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Why Accendo Reliability

Why Accendo Reliability

Why Accendo Reliability

podcast episode with speaker Fred Schenkelberg

I recently received a question about the artwork found at Accendo Reliability. “Why castles?” So, I provided an answer and thought I would share it in this webinar. Also, let’s talk about how and why Accendo Reliability got started and how it’s been doing over the past ten years. [Read more…]