Does a Certification Make You a Professional Reliability Engineer?
The short answer to this question is “No, it doesn’t.”
A certification is just a piece of paper that conveys that you have mastered some body of knowledge. You most likely also committed to abide by a code of ethics. You may also have committed to continuing education to maintain the certification. Continue reading
First a confession. We say that we’ve been using ISO 31000 for a ten or so years.
Say what? ISO 31000 was developed in 2009. How can you been using the standard since 2006. OK, technically you’re right. But, we’ve been using AS/NZS 4360 since 2006. The Australian and New Zealand risk management standard was developed in 2004. Most importantly, ISO 31000 has a strong ‘look and feel’ to AS/NZS 4360. Continue reading
The headlines this week regarding Montreal’s eight-billion-litre untreated sewage dump came and went with a few large plumes of dark-brown water or white effluent witnessed in the St. Lawrence River and strong early morning odours in some quarters, but little visible sewage detected overall. Continue reading
In the previous post, I defined a simple hierarchy for portraying the Enterprise:
A few months ago someone posed an interesting question on a LinkedIn group discussion: What are the three most-important characteristics of a good operations manager? A lot of the discussions I’ve been following lately seem to be preoccupied with issues like this. What makes a good manager? Continue reading