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Where do you look when hiring a new reliability engineer? Do you head to U of Maryland or other university reliability program to recruit the top talent? Or, do you promote/assign from within? Where do yo find the best reliability people?
What make a good reliability engineer? Continue reading
As stated in our CERM article 127, highly effective safety initiatives are not a short list of “Do’s” and “Don’ts” but include a complex mix of integrated and interacting best safety practices as shown in Figure 1. In this article, we will focus on one of the 7 critical ingredients of an effective Cascading Safety Management System: The Elimination of Biased Thinking and Mental Blocks highlighted with the arrow in Figure 1. Continue reading
Requirements for Risk Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015The most important new concept to emerge in Quality Management Systems in the past 15 years is the Risk Based Thinking requirements of ISO 9001:2015. There are two definitions of risk in the ISO family of standards, and since they are very similar to each other, you can choose either one, or use them both together. Continue reading
Viacom, one of the world’s largest media corporations and Second Chance Toys, an east coast nonprofit have partnered to reduce the amount of plastic toys that enter landfills and to put smiles on the faces of kids living below the poverty level by collecting and distributing toys to those in need.
Ali Tuck, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Viacom, manages Viacom’s CSR strategies across multiple networks and develops cross-company partnerships with corporations and non-profit organizations. Continue reading
There are many design rules of thumb I have heard over the years. For example: KISS (keep it simple stupid); make it idiot proof; be realistic with tolerances; do not make assumptions that are not realizable (zero gap for instance); and many more. The most important rule of thumb I have experienced is “common sense”. To illustrate my point, I have a few examples that are below. Continue reading