In a single meeting, you may need to structure a reliability model, create estimates, outline test plans, and discuss a field failure. The breadth of tools and knowledge to be effective is staggering.
No two problems, questions, situations, or industries are the same. Thus, the solutions you provide must differ as well. If you enjoy a complete set of reliability engineering tools at your disposal, you are well situated to address any question. Continue reading
The primary core use of a pFMEA is to analyze a new process to identify potential failures within the process and evaluate the planned prevention & detection controls to determine the degree of risk (see Table 1).
Unfortunately, once the FMEA is complete the document often just sits “on the shelf” until the next major revision to the process, when it is hopefully used to analyze the planned changes. There are, however, many other potential uses for the FMEA that can leverage the information gained from the analysis. Here are five examples: Continue reading
We are all witnessing a revolution in the progress of artificial intelligence (AI) and its adoption. AI’s latest content creation capabilities have created an enormous interest in the media and the public.
ChatGPT most recently demonstrated an astonishing ability to generate coherent text when you ask it to write an essay or answer a question. Along with excitement, many ethical questions immediately popped up. Are these systems able to reason on par with humans? Are they aware of the content they generate? Are their answers fair and unbiased? Continue reading
One of my favourite safety consulting activities is to provide executives with coaching, which I find very rewarding both in individual change and over time see the clients culture change. There are reasons why the best organizations across industries provide executive coaching to their leaders. Continue reading
“… computers are now doing many things that used to be the domain of people only. The pace and scale of this encroachment into human skills is relatively recent and has profound economic implications. Perhaps the most important of these is that while digital progress grows the overall economic pie, it can do so while leaving some people, or even a lot of them, worse off.”(1)
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andy McAfee – Authors of Race Against the Machine Continue reading