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Message to “Inside FMEA” readers. This is a reprint of a message that went out earlier this week as part of the Accendo Weekly Update. I wanted to be sure to reach any “Inside FMEA” readers who may have missed the original request.
My new eBook is in draft form and ready for review. I am very excited to introduce this project, as it is the culmination of a career in re...
Performance monitoring is often where reliability intent meets operational reality and where many well-intentioned reliability programmes quietly lose focus.
Most organisations monitor something, such as failures, availability, response times or costs. The challenge is choosing indicators that genuinely reflect system performance, rather than those that are simply e...
One of the issues I’ve had with failure modes and effects analysis is the focus on failure modes.
The symptoms that the customer or end user will experience are important. If a customer detects that the product has failed, that is a failure. The FMEA process does help us to identify and focus on the important elements of a desig...
On November 24, 2000, PacifiCorp experienced a massive generator failure at its Hunter Power Plant in Castle Dale, Utah. Post-event inspection of the generator revealed a serious failure of the stator core—a cylindrical structure nearly 19 feet long and more than 16 feet across—which had partially melted. At the time, the generator was operating at its maximum ca...
This article is adapted from Chapter 8 of my book, Measuring Manufacturing Effectiveness.
The book explores how manufacturing organizations define and use performance metrics, and how those definitions influence operational decisions, improvement efforts, and management behavior. While the chapters form a connected framework, each is written to address a sp...