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An informal or formal process within an organization to encourage, fund, or otherwise support ongoing education for employees, vendors, or customers. Such professional development provides a means to deploy or add reliability-related educational content or classes using an existing company system.

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Advice to Managers on Getting Most Value from Workforce Training

Advice to Managers on Getting Most Value from Workforce Training

The purpose of training your people is to develop capabilities the business needs and to add value to your people so they feel that they have greater worth. But the most important benefit of training is often lost because managers do not get their newly trained people to improve the system of work with their better knowledge and skills.

Everyone needs training to reach their highest potential. Training introduces new ideas and new ways that make us more effective people. There is one vital issue managers need to keep in mind about training if you want to get the greatest returns from the investment in time, money and commitment. Only training put to use returns value and only training of value is of use.

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Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance Management, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Professional Development & Growth

The key to growing your knowledge and career

qtq80-OjQuRsTo increase your knowledge, you need to learn new things, try new things and generally push outside of your comfort zone.   One of the key components of growing your knowledge is knowing what is new and happening in Maintenance, Reliability, and Asset Management.

I recently had the privilege to attend and present two papers at the Society  of Maintenance & Reliability Professional’s 2016 Annual Conference in Jacksonville.  This premier event was 5 days long.   The conference had 3 Days of workshops and courses, with 2 days of presentations.  Many certification exams were held, such as the CMRT, CMRP, CAMA. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

How Do You Stay Current?

How Do You Stay Current?

When I first started working in a factory as a shift supervisor, it seemed there was some type of formal training nearly every month. And we were expected to attend a conference once a year. Little did I know that was a great time to start working in industry. We enjoyed a lot of great training.

Later in my career and as the economy changed budgets for training slowly declined. Travel budgets also slipped away. I don’t have hard numbers, yet I suspect there is less company-sponsored professional development than 20 years ago.

As an engineering working in the reliability field, how do you keep up and learn what you need to know to accomplish your work? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

The Learning and Teaching Route to Success

The Learning and Teaching Route to Success

Reliability engineers learn basic tools and techniques most often from others with that knowledge. During our careers, we also continue to learn and often find ourselves teaching. Even when mentoring we find ourselves learning. Being a deliberate and active student and teacher is a great way to remain inquisitive and helpful.

Learning and teaching route to success

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. [1]

Learning never stops. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Networked and Positive as a Reliability Engineer

Networked and Positive as a Reliability Engineer

Many elements help make a reliability engineer successful.Two such elements are knowing the right people to get the job done and generally being a positive and enjoyable person to be around.

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Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by Fred Schenkelberg 1 Comment

Talent and Professionalism as a Reliability Engineer

Talent and Professionalism as a Reliability Engineer

My dictionary says that talented is “having a natural aptitude or skill for something.”

We learn reliability engineering and those who understand the range of tools and techniques useful for a given situation would be considered talented.

Everything is not solved by running a highly accelerated life test (HALT) or only conducting detailed failure analysis. Knowing when and why to apply a particular tool and using the tool effectively (i.e., when to use a Weibull distribution to model lifetime data and how to use the information to make decisions) are critical. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Success as a Reliability Engineer

Success as a Reliability Engineer

Whether by design or by accident some of us become reliability engineers. Making a career in reliability engineering relies on your ability to make a difference and to add value. Being successful as a reliability engineer, while creating reliable products, permits continuation and growth as a reliability professional.

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Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Professional development, Value

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Basics of Reliability Engineering

Basics of Reliability Engineering

One of best features about working in reliability engineering is everything fails, eventually. This fact provides a bit of career stability.

Another aspect I enjoy is the concepts and approaches that create the foundation for reliability engineering knowledge do not change very much over time. The basics of reliability engineering are the same as when the earliest engineers began design structures and products.

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Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by Fred Schenkelberg 5 Comments

Recommended Books for Maintenance Reliability Engineers

Recommended Books for Maintenance Reliability Engineers

Recently I asked for recommendations for books for maintenance reliability engineers. The following list, in no order, are the recommendations. Thanks to all who participated. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: Professional development

by Fred Schenkelberg 11 Comments

Websites for Reliability

note: if you know of a great online resource that isn’t on this list, please add a comments and we’ll add it to the list for all to share.

Shon Isenhour recently posted on Linkedin a question about online resources helpful for reliability engineers. I added my list and hadn’t seen any other links added. There must be more than the few I know about – what can you add to this list? [Read more…]

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