#121 – WorkingIt.com Website, Prospering In Disruption – Greg Hutchins

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Greg Hutchins pixWork is structure.
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We developed WorkingIt.com to explain how work, careers, and jobs are evolving.  The site’s tagline is ‘Brand U Work in the Disruption Economy.”

A full treatment of work, careers, and jobs is beyond the scope of this site and frankly beyond my abilities.  Hopefully, this site offers a unique structure, my thoughts about how you’ll work due to the current epidemic of disruption and how you’ll progress in your Brand U career. Continue reading

#121 – RISK AND POKA YOKE – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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aIMG_4231On March 28, 1979 there was a cascading failure in reactor number 2 at Three Mile Island. This failure allowed large amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to escape. The accident coalesced the anti-nuclear movement and ultimately caused the decline in nuclear plant construction in the United States. Continue reading

#121 – MECHANICAL RELIABILITY TESTING – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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ABC FredMechanical systems wear out and fail eventually. The ability of a structure to support a load, move though the specified range of motion, or spin degrades with use and time. Even our joints eventually wear out.

Accelerated life testing (ALT) has value as it provides information about a system’s reliability performance in the future. There is plenty of ALT literature concerning the failure mechanisms unique to electronic components and materials but less has been written about mechanical reliability testing. Continue reading

#120 – RISK BASED, DECISION MAKING – ED PERKINS

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERARisk based decision making is employed to implement risk management. But how is this implemented? In this article we will look at the process of making “risk based” decisions.

Risk management is a process that involves several activities.

  • Risk Assessment, to identify and assess risks and Risk Events;

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