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Bob Latino has made this point for years. In The ‘Soft Side’ of RCA: Management’s Role in ‘Effective’ Training, he argues that “training alone is not the panacea to a facility’s problems,” and describes how companies use training as “managerial therapy.” The post Human Performance: Don’t Stop Your Root Cause Analysis Too Soon appeared first on Accendo Reliability.
We previously explored FMEA as a structured way of thinking about how systems fail. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) approaches the problem from a different direction. Instead of starting with individual failure modes and asking what might happen, FTA starts with an undesirable outcome and asks: “What could cause this to happen?” Starting with the top […] The post Fault Tree Analysis – understanding how failures combine app
Each of us have seen product life or component reliability claims on product literature or data sheets. We may even have received such claims stated as goals and been asked to support the claim with some form of an experiment. Standards bodies from ANSI, BSI, ISO, IEC, and others from around the world provide standard […] The post Question the Use of Reliability Testing Standards appeared first on Accendo Reliability
Corporate responsibility goes beyond financial performance. It includes a commitment to sustainability, safety, ethical operations, and stakeholder well-being. Reliability plays a crucial role in fulfilling these commitments by ensuring assets, processes, and operations function as intended without failures that could harm people, the environment, or the company’s reputation. A reliable organization upholds safety, e
Some of the greatest players in baseball history also committed the most errors. That fact surprises people at first, but it should not. The players who appear at the top of the all‑time error list were long‑tenured, high‑impact professionals who handled the toughest plays in the most demanding eras of the game. Their careers show […] The post Human Reliability: The Hall of Fame of Human Error appeared first on Accen
One of the most widely used tools in reliability engineering is Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA). Many engineers will recognise it as a worksheet, a table, or perhaps a lengthy review meeting involving coloured spreadsheets and risk rankings. But the real value of FMEA lies elsewhere. At its core, FMEA is a structured way […] The post FMEA thinking – understanding how systems fail appeared first on Accendo R
The Challenge When The Little Potato Company launched its new facility in Nisku, Alberta, the rotary line quickly became a bottleneck. Machines were not running at design rate, customer orders were missed, and operational costs were climbing. The workforce lacked the skills to troubleshoot effectively, and there was no maintenance strategy in place to support […] The post ReliabilityX Breaks Throughput Records on Rot
The Problem The pump fails again. Third time this year. The team pulls it apart, finds the bearing cooked, replaces it, upgrades the seal, tightens the PM interval, and moves on. Case closed, work order logged, corrective action complete. Four months later, same pump, same failure mode. Maybe it’s a different pump this time, same […] The post The Wrong Asset: Why Your RCA Keeps Missing the Real Root Cause appeared fi
In Part 1, we explored the first question: What failure are we managing? In Part 2, we explored the second question: What type of asset are we managing? Together, those two questions help us understand how failure occurs and how it should be modeled. But understanding failure behavior is only part of the decision. This […] The post Part 3: How Important Is The Failure? appeared first on Accendo Reliability.
Ilities Reliability, maintainability, availability, or the ‘ilities’ are common in our language with reference to products, services, equipment, and people. Joe is regularly available for the meeting; We can count on (depend or rely) Sara to finish the report on time; My car starts every morning without fail; and many more. What is meant with […] The post What is Reliability appeared first on Accendo Reliability.
When developing a reliability strategy for electromechanical components like water pumps, it is useful to create a 2D matrix that links the risk levels identified in the DFMEA (Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) with the specific tests outlined in the DVP&R (Design Verification Plan & Report). The upper row of the matrix lists SxO […] The post 2D-Matrix Managing High-Risk Failures appeared first on Accendo Rel
[This is the fourth article in the new series: FMEA and AI. You can access the other articles with these links. New Series: FMEA and AI; FMEA and AI: Series Topics; FMEA and AI: Three Important Principles.] Your wisdom is consumed in confidence – William Shakespeare, from the play Julius Caesar. AI can sound confident, […] The post FMEA and AI: Overconfidence appeared first on Accendo Reliability.
Case Study: The Challenge The Little Potato Company’s Edmonton facility was operating a Bosch Line that consistently fell short of its designed production capacity, and the gap between expected and actual output continued to widen. Equipment performance had deteriorated to the point where machines were no longer capable of running at the speeds required to […] The post ReliabilityX Delivers $8M Margin Gain on Bosch L
I once stood across the table from a team developing cleaning, inspection, and lubrication maps for a production line. As they tried to describe one of the components on the filler, I heard: “The thing, on the thing, with the things, that goes up and down on the thing of the filler.” I gasped. There […] The post Conveyor Assembly Anatomy Autonomous Maintenance Training appeared first on Accendo Reliability.
It is rarely one big failure that separates a thriving African plant from a struggling one. It is five small decisions, made repeatedly, that compound in one direction or the other. The difference between a plant that performs consistently and one that lurches from crisis to crisis is almost never the equipment. It is rarely […] The post The Five Decisions That Determine Whether an African Plant Thrives or Struggles