Philip and Fred discussing a few things we’ve noticed while working from home full time.

Key Points

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• One can get a lot accomplished working online as we all learn how to make it happen.
• Sometimes a photo or video just isn’t the same – especially when doing failure analysis
• So, will this event shift our balance to more working remotely to support teams?

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Philip and Fred discussing why we need to think when we work with reliability in a light hearted discussion that topics like the speed of light, way back when in physics class, spinning hands, Ben Franklin, Super conducting submarine engines, keyboard jockey’s blind bliss, plug-n-chug – Spec & Dump, Universities role in teaching thinking.

Today’s reliable software, using the right tool for the right job, balancing today’s dynamic workload, water fountain statistical process control, the value of a great mentor, and social invisibility.

Key Points

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss a range of topics related to the central point that we need to think when we work with reliability and cannot blindly accept a software result.

Topics include:

• 10 Hazards and Traps for the keyboard jockey to fall into
• Social Invisibility and Problem solving
• The sustaining value of a great work place mentor

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Critical Few in Risk Management

Abstract

Philip and Fred discuss Risk management – internet challenges during COVID and how we analyse integrated systems that challenge traditional methods.

After 2 days of internet woes we managed to connect around the world from Australia and San Francisco in the United States we managed to connect with enough bandwidth to discuss reliability in the COVID era. Reflections on the ways we used to do business and how we have evolved business in general as technology has advanced during our careers.

As Reliability professionals can we apply these risk related notions to discover what can go wrong with a specific system, product or asset. What can we apply? Touching the end points of our interconnected systems that many people have a play in how it performs has become complicated. With the additional complexity – how does this affect a quantitative analysis and the calculation of a system’s probability to fail upon demand?

As we progress into the cloud – is this a reliable solution for major hazard facilities and aviation? How does the cloud manage global access to the same content? Can it be replicated with enough reliability to ensure  real time cloud based processing? Do we have access to the tools we need to manage reliability in this evolving environment. FMEA has its variants and Fault Tree Analysis has its benefits, but what do we do when the total system involves virtualization, hypervisors, and server farms that process the intricate hybrid systems with humans, governance, software faults and a larger picture of issues.

Nancy Levison’s STAMP model works on these selected intricate problems using STPA and integrates the notion that these are inter-related forces we need to deal with.

When we focus on the quality aspects of Reliability, and impose the liability discussion including McDonalds’ hot coffee burning your leg in the drive through. How do we ensure product safety across multiple countries to a risk level as low as reasonably practicable whilst adjusting to a business headwind including return on investment and share holder influences.

Risks are varied including space flight, aviation, and general industry the challenge is to provide an analysis that  delivers the most likely scenarios to affect the product, system or asset. Risk is a broad topic, but when we focus on a specific risk like safety, cost or reputation are FMEA topics that operate on differing scales including wildfire starts (bush fires in Australia).

Getting into the right ball park in the right city is still a correct approach to defending second base.

Safety is still number one. Balancing economic challenges with safety challenges across the total industry remains a challenge when trying to achieve a sustainably low level of risk.

Join us and send in your thoughts as comments. We have a great many tools available to reliability professionals – what are you using fitting tools into your risk management challenges. What is working, what is not when we challenge interconnected systems?

Key Points

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Join Philip and Fred as they discuss Risk management – internet challenges during COVID and how we analyse integrated systems that challenge traditional methods.
Topics include:

• Risk, the cloud, the internet robustness
• Challenging risk analysis on integrated systems of hardware, software and human interactions
• Getting into the right ball park with your analysis
• Emergent methodologies like STPA and STAMP.

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Philip and Fred discussing the need to understand our perception or frame of reference bias.

Key Points

Join Philip and Fred as they discuss how we prepare and see the world around us.

Topics include:

• The issues around conformational bias.
• The issues concerning being prepared to be surprised.
• Only looking for evidence to support the desired solution.

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Philip and Fred discussing the importance of mentoring and reliability guidance.

Key Points

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Join Philip and Fred as they discuss mentoring across the globe. What should we be doing to educate and prepare the reliability professional, asset manager, maintenance managers of the future to be fully prepared to enter this field.

Topics include:

• Pathways to Reliability, Tools, Life Testing, Reducing Variability, Design for Reliability space, Design Engineers, Civil Engineers, et all.
• How do you become a Reliability minded person? Applying learning in the workplace. Experimentation in the workplace.
• Academic pathways – Central Queensland University – University of Maryland, University of Tennessee, et all.
• Reliability Thinking, Overdesign and effects of the cost cycle, tools and skills that can be taught to deliver a reliable system.
• Physics of Failure, Defect Elimination, Contributing to the body of knowledge, the role of universities, moving the art form.
• Manufacturing reliability into your products. Seeing the entire reliability work space.

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Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches. University program creation guidance.

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