Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing the use of reliability tools across the organization.
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A common question about reliability testing is, “What is the sample size?” It is also a difficult question to answer well. The right sample size balances cost, accuracy, and variability. In some cases, we also consider the time to results.
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The main goal of every organization is to get the quality product in the market. That’s why they spend millions of dollars to stay on the plan they had in place. They can’t do that if their equipment keeps failing. The only way to make it sure is to maintain it properly. And that is a job for reliability engineers. They are the ones who maintain the assets of the company. They find the cause of the failures and stop it by making the system design better. They play a role similar to the process engineer but their job has a wider scope.
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing metrics for reliability software.
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Chris and Fred discussing a few hallmarks of exceptional reliability programs.
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The organizations that are more innovative and have a mark in the industry tend to do things that others don’t. So, what are those things and how do they do that? This is an area where process engineers play their role to increase the production and solve problems that come along the way. Sometimes they have to experiment using different chemicals, use the calculations, and use the recorded data to come up with processes that can increase the yield of a product without compromising the quality. Their job is to come up with the best ways to quantify product.
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Chris and Fred discuss what likely autonomous vehicle (AV) operations mean to the ‘reliability industry’ given that these vehicles will have completely different operating profiles with perhaps surprising results.
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Chris and Fred discuss GM’s recent announcement that they were going to start mass producing ‘truly’ autonomous vehicles (AVs) for use by 2019 and how this signals industry’s (not academia’s) intent to ‘make this happen.’
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If there are a couple of things that pops to mind when talking about leadership is that leaders are made not born and that all leaders shared the same set of qualities that make them as such (think about John C. Maxwell’s book “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader”). These two statements seem to complement each other and reflect the general tone of today’s podcast episode.
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing the difference between having created a reliable design and knowing why the design you created is reliable.
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Adam and Chris Stapelmann discussing how to collect field data that can be trusted for product performance analysis and prediction.
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Striving to be best in class is perhaps the ultimate goal of every organization. But what exactly does it take to get there? In the first part of this podcast, we talked about the changes seen in maintenance, reliability, and failure analysis over the years and what makes these practices successful in best in class organizations.
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Katie and Fred discussing getting started in reliability engineering along with the importance of the soft skills in the engineering workplace.
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Katie and Fred discussing the gig economy and the expectation of careers over a lifetime.
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The leap towards becoming a best-in-class company is challenging. If you’re like most people, you might have wondered the difference between best in class companies and typical companies as far as reliability practices are concerned. While it’s true that there are other elements that are at play that make for a best-in-class company, one can’t deny that maintenance and reliability is one differentiating factor and a critical element at that.
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