Predicting the Value of a Reliability Goal in Your Organization Establishing a reliability goal for a project is often done early. You may already know the reliability goal guides the entire development and supply chain team. Yet, what is the actual value of setting a reliability goal? Value is the return on the investment. Here, setting […]

Understanding and Controlling Process Variation Let’s discuss sources of variation and how to measure, monitor, and control processes to minimize the differences from one part to the next. Statistical process control (SPC) is a set of tools that provide insights into the changing nature of processes. Product designs include the design engineer’s desired dimensions and […]

This webinar explores how we, as reliability professionals, can improve our ability to influence.

Let’s explore estimating the total lifecycle costs for a complex system from the point of view of a reliability engineer. Join me in a discussion on what to consider and how to estimate future costs while working early in the program. You need to know this even if your system in not complex or repairable.

Obtaining certifications based on your reliability engineering knowledge does not make you a professional. It is how you apply your knowledge that does. Let’s explore what it means to be a professional reliability engineer.

We cheat time. As reliability engineers we are asked to peer into the future and predict the time to failure for our products and systems. So, how do you go about setting up an accelerated life test? There are options that work, and some that do not.

Education options have exploded. For the past 75 years we read books, gone back to campus, attended workshops, traveled to conferences, and participated in evening meetings. Today we have more options from more sources for our professional development.

A webinar where we discuss the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer exam and you can best prepare to receive your certificate

You may already know my position on MTBF. If not, in short, do not use MTBF at all, ever, in any form. So what should we use instead. I suggest using reliability, the probability of success over a specific duration. Let’s discuss what will work for you.

Early and often during product development the team needs to know the expected reliability performance of the current design.