The origins of a reliability engineer may go back to Royal Engineers disposing of unexploded bombs. These Royal Engineers mastered their craft at mitigating risk, recognition of patterns, and iterating their skill-set. Similar to Reliability Engineers in manufacturing, there needs to be a skill set fully dedicated to similar situations.

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Performance goals Performance goal season is wrapping up. With a few days remaining, you summarize your annual performance to each goal...

A decade ago, I vividly remember facing a dilemma where neither option was good. A department I was responsible for had a basement with...

A quote I remember a mentor of mine said years ago was, if you find yourself bored, just wait 5 more minutes, something will blow up. Of...

I was talking to a friend lately about the melancholy moments in a professional career that became influential turns when looking back....

WIthin all forms of manufacturing, outages exist. They are either planned or unplanned and they could exist at some periodic interval....

We all fall on both sides of the fence when solving problems. We are either on the receiving end of problems to solve or we are the...

The new James Webb Space Telescope claims to have 344 single-points-of-failure (SPOF) or single components that could disrupt the...

Academic references exist for inventory optimization to reflect current reliability and current market conditions. Within manufacturing,...

It is always something to admire when people own their mistakes or missed attempts or utter flops. In the manufacturing industry, I find...

Maybe I’ve spent too much time in manufacturing because “failure” is one of my default words. I have tried to incorporate fiasco,...

Seth Godin calls it “shipping.” Having the courage to reflect, write, and ship. It is taking time to build the habit to do good things...