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Sep 23, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Common Cause Failure – why redundancy isn’t always enough

Redundancy is one of the most common ways of improving reliability. If one component fails, another can take over. Simple. Or is it? The effectiveness of redundancy depends on an important assumption: that the redundant elements fail independently. When that assumption is wrong, Common Cause Failure (CCF) can undermine the protection redundancy was intended to […] The post Common Cause Failure – why redundancy isn’t

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Sep 21, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Reliability and Sustainability: Building a Resilient Future

Sustainability is a fundamental responsibility for businesses aiming to reduce their environmental footprint, improve efficiency, and build long-term resilience. Reliability plays a crucial role in achieving sustainability goals by ensuring that assets, processes, and operations function efficiently, reducing waste, energy consumption, and environmental harm. Organizations that prioritize reliability through proactiv

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Sep 20, 2026

Condition Monitoring

Why I Wrote a 600-Page Book About Reliability Engineering

My first job with the word “reliability” in the title was at a mining operation, and the whole program fitted on one shelf: a folder of oil sample results that came back from the laboratory each month, and a set of motor vibration readings compared by eye with the month before. When a number looked […] The post Why I Wrote a 600-Page Book About Reliability Engineering appeared first on Accendo Reliability.

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Sep 17, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Africa’s Rotating Equipment Failures: The Case Against Blaming the Machine

There is a statistic making the rounds in reliability engineering circles that should stop every African plant manager cold. According to field data compiled across multiple industries on the continent — cement, mining, port operations — more than 70% of rotating equipment failures are not caused by the equipment itself. The bearings are not defective. […] The post Africa’s Rotating Equipment Failures: The Case Again

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Sep 17, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Human Performance: Don’t Stop Your Root Cause Analysis Too Soon

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.

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Sep 17, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Fault Tree Analysis – understanding how failures combine

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

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Sep 17, 2026

Maintenance Engineering

A Case Study of a Motorized Windshield Wiper System for Heavy-Duty Trucks

Understanding Failure Accumulation in Repairable Systems Many assets are repaired and returned to service repeatedly throughout their operating life. Motorized windshield wiper systems used on heavy-duty trucks are one example. For these repairable systems, the engineering challenge is to compare designs, evaluate performance, and estimate future maintenance demand. The nonparametric growth curve measures the average

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Sep 16, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Question the Use of Reliability Testing Standards

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

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Sep 15, 2026

Maintenance Engineering

6 Ways to Improve Maintenance and Production

Good practices for better performance from production and maintenance Good practices for better performance from production and maintenance. The journey to world-class production performance is a partnership effort from the Engineering, Production and Maintenance groups in an organisation. It requires involving them in improving business quality systems and assuring individual’s work quality. Improving Maintenance an

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Sep 14, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Reliability and Its Impact on Corporate Responsibility

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

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Sep 10, 2026

Reliability Engineering

Human Reliability: The Hall of Fame of Human Error

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

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Sep 10, 2026

Reliability Engineering

FMEA thinking – understanding how systems fail

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

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Sep 7, 2026

Reliability Engineering

ReliabilityX Breaks Throughput Records on Rotary Line

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

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Sep 3, 2026

Reliability Engineering

The Wrong Asset: Why Your RCA Keeps Missing the Real Root Cause

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

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Sep 3, 2026

Maintenance Engineering

Is Preventive Maintenance Actually Preventing Anything in Your Plant?

We follow the schedule religiously. We still have the same failures. At some point you have to ask whether the schedule is based on evidence or habit. Is Preventive Maintenance Actually Preventing Anything in Your Plant? I want to start with a question that sounds simple but is rarely asked honestly in African plants. When […] The post Is Preventive Maintenance Actually Preventing Anything in Your Plant? appeared fir

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