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FMEA and AI – FMEA Teams
A team has the potential to achieve an objective that is far beyond the capabilities of a lone person. Dr. Suzanne Bell — NASA team-science researcher For many years, one of the hot topics in the international FMEA community has been how much of an FMEA can be automated versus…
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Best Practices Are Starting Points, Not Final Answers
Understand the true meaning of best practices. Learn how they serve as starting points and not universal solutions for success. The post Best Practices Are Starting Points, Not Final Answers appeared first on Accendo Reliability .
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The Discipline of Writing Things Down
Why Documentation Is a Reliability Tool There is a quiet moment that happens in almost every plant, every workshop, every operations floor. A machine fails. Someone fixes it. Life moves on. Nobody writes down what actually happened, what was tried, what worked, or what almost…
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Presenter Mindset Mistake #8: Don’t Let Your Tone Play Favorites
Presenters rarely intend to treat board members differently. It happens anyway, often as a warmer tone for the chair or a more responsive posture toward a better-known member. It can also show up as impatience with a member in the minority or someone who asks a familiar question…
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How Do We Know Our Barriers Will Protect Us?
In my previous post, we looked at Safety Critical Elements (SCEs) as the engineered barriers that protect people, assets, the environment, and the business from major accident hazards. But having a barrier does not necessarily mean we are protected. A pressure relief valve can…
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Statistical Inference – From A Sample To The Wider Population
In reliability engineering, it is rarely practical to test every item, observe every mission or wait for every system to fail. Instead, we collect evidence from a sample and use it to make statements about the wider population. That process is known as statistical inference.…
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Duty Cycle Engineering
In reliability engineering, the duty cycle is a concise description of how long and how hard a component is expected to work, and under which environmental and operational conditions it must survive for the life of the product. A well-constructed duty cycle captures the time…
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Value Of Reliability Engineering
Linkedin groups are a continual source of interesting questions. We learn and share with each other to grapple with some of the common and not so common issues we face at work. For example, recently, in the Plant Reliability & Maintenance Professionals – PRMP LinkedIn group, the…
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How To Plan A Great Crisis Exercise
Guest Post by Andrew Sheves (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission) Exercises are an essential part of skills development and, for things like emergencies and crises, the only way to build these skills outside of an actual event, events that are…
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Gerrymandering vs Voronoi Tessellation
Explore Gerrymandering vs Voronoi Tessellation and how they relate to equitable districting in California's political landscape. The post Gerrymandering vs Voronoi Tessellation appeared first on Accendo Reliability .
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Why Three to Six Weibull Failures Tell You Less Than You Think
Sample Size Outweighs Estimator Choice — n = 3–6 Abstract This study examines why Weibull parameter estimates from very small samples are so uncertain, and how that uncertainty compares with the choice of estimator. Two Monte Carlo designs span five true shape parameters (β =…
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Most Industrial Operations Make Their Equipment Fail
High reliability does not result from doing maintenance. Rather, it is the result of using quality management processes when doing the maintenance. Organisations with high equipment reliability are designed with business processes built to create reliability. Reliable equipment…
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Structure Without the Stamp: Why Standards Matter Even Without Certification
In reliability and maintenance, the word “standard” often triggers a binary reaction. Either you certify to it, or you ignore it. But that framing misses the real opportunity. Standards are not just about certification. They are about structure. Page 625 of Ramesh Gulati’s…
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Presenter Mindset Mistake #7: Don’t Talk at the Eighth-Grade Level
Most communication advice tells you to simplify everything to an eighth-grade level so nobody gets lost. That’s not how decision bodies operate, especially with complex issues. They process information through whoever on the board or in the inner circle understands the topic the…
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Understanding Safety Critical Elements
In my previous post, I discussed how Asset Criticality and Process Risk help organizations understand where engineering attention should be focused. Identifying risk, however, is only the beginning. The next question is: Once we understand the hazards, what prevents them from…
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How to Lead When Nobody Follows Yet
Nobody warns you about this part. They tell you to build your skills. Get the certifications. Learn the tools. Put in the hours until you’ve earned your seat at the table. What nobody tells you is what happens after that. You finally have something worth leading, a real idea, a…
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Averages and variation – why the mean is never the whole story
Averages are everywhere in reliability engineering: average life, average repair time, average failures per month. They are useful summaries, but often hide the behaviour that matters most. Not all “averages” are the same For balanced data these may be similar. For skewed data,…
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MTBF as a Metric
Seeing a book announcement for Duke Okes’s Performance Metrics: The Levers for Process Improvement made me think. The excerpt titled “Psychological Impact of Metrics” included the notion that metrics drive behavior. That isn’t new, yet Duke went on to provide a way to determine…
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Preventive maintenance: Replacement vs. Detection
Preventive maintenance boils down to a single question: When should we act before a failure acts on us? Two dominant schools of thought answer differently. A time-based replacement program schedules service after a fixed number of hours, cycles, or calendar days, betting that…
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Rise Of The Neo-Luddites
We have displacement and a failure to create shared prosperity, but we are not heading to an economy without human labor anytime soon.Daron Acemoglu – MIT professor We’re on a Tech Futures voyage driven by COVID and AI, which will unleash a lot more tech. And, it’ll be a bumpy…