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ASQ RRD Webinar: Weibull Distribution -Part 2 & Part 2+

By Tim Gaens posted 10 days ago
ASQ RRD Webinar: Weibull Distribution -Part 2 & Part 2+ Presenter: Jim Breneman Friday, April 26, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r6fc9846734c7dd6e3b3bcced36b18ae9

ASQ RRD Webinar: Weibull Distribution -Part 1 Finish And Start Weibull Part 2

By Tim Gaens posted 10 days ago
ASQ RRD Webinar: Weibull Distribution -Part 1 finish and start Weibull Part 2 Presenter: Jim Breneman Friday, April 12, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r17d37cff70a047d7e723aa599f13ccdb

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Product Liability Drama: How Reliability And Statistical Methods Prevent It

By Tim Gaens posted 13 days ago
ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Product Liability Drama: How Reliability And Statistical Methods Prevent It Thursday, May 9, 2024 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Presenter: Allise Wachs, Ph.D. https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r91e9f911983cd6eb52ca28825b736575 Abstract: Large manufacturing companies spend billions of dollars on warranty and product liability lawsuits annually. Warranty, product liability suits, safety recalls, and associated costs could easily be minimized with the proper use of industrial statistical and reliability methods. Many product defect cases are a result of a suboptimal design or unstable manufacturing ...

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Emotional Intelligence Boosts Connection And Why It Matters

By Tim Gaens posted 13 days ago
ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Emotional Intelligence Boosts Connection And Why It Matters Presenters: Elizabeth Solomon, Rebecca Young, Travis Marsh Julia Markish https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/ra32c72243f961a95953d9593664f0465 Abstract: Emotional Intelligence has been a topic for many years, and this webinar will explore its advantages and impacts. Join us to discover how you can take advantage of the approach.

Extended Abstract Submission Date RMMR 2024

By Tim Gaens posted 17 days ago
The Abstract Submission Deadline for RMMR 2024 is extended from April 5, 2024 to April 15, 2024. https://asqrrd.org/rmmr_conference/ We invite you to submit abstracts for the presentations at the 4th Annual Reliability, Maintenance & Managing Risk Conference (RMMR 2024) to be held on July 25-26, 2024 (with pre-conference courses to be offered on July 24), in Pittsburgh, PA. RMMR 2024 is sponsored by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Reliability and Risk Division (RRD). It is a forum for the quality and reliability practitioners, asset and risk managers, statisticians, and academic researchers to come together to share and learn from each other. ...

ASQ RRD Webinar: Reliability Modeling — Parallel, Series, Redundant, Standby Systems

By Tim Gaens posted 17 days ago
ASQ RRD Webinar: Reliability Modeling — parallel, series, redundant, standby systems Friday, May 10, 2024 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r903112401633b9ff7516c956addebb97 More info TBA

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: 2024 AIAG CONTROL PLAN Manual Review

By Tim Gaens posted 17 days ago
ASQ RRD series webinar: 2024 AIAG CONTROL PLAN Manual review Wednesday, April 24, 2024 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Presenter: Richard Harpster https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/rf3d24e2ce831799c1a9e5a676033d83a Abstract: 2024 AIAG CONTROL PLAN Manual – What’s New and Will It Lead to Stronger or Weaker Process Control Plans? On March 5, 2024, the AIAG announced that the CONTROL PLAN Reference Manual was available for sale. It has been almost sixteen years since the 2008 ADVANCED PRODUCT QUALITY PLANNING (APQP) AND CONTROL PLAN Reference Manual Second Edition (“2008 AIAG APQP Manual”) describing how to implement Control ...

Keynote Speaker RMMR 2024 Announced

By Tim Gaens posted 03/05/24
Keynote speaker: Alexander J. Porter Alexander (Alex) J. Porter is the Global Director of Engineering at Intertek, and has been with the company since 1992. Over the course of his employment at Intertek Alex has held positions in materials testing, finite element analysis, sales, engineering development, Chief Engineer and now Global Director of Engineering. Alex got his start in business development by bringing FEA methods into the physical test laboratory. Starting in 1996, Alex began developing accelerated testing methods for mechanical components and systems. Alex worked with automotive, furniture, industrial and appliance ...

Introduction to Reliability Engineering - Course outline

By Tim Gaens posted 03/03/24
See: https://asqrrd.org/introduction-to-reliability/ for more info. Introduction to Reliability Engineering Course outline Month Day Time Title Link February 9 Noon-2PM Class Introduction-Overview, continuing into Prob-part 1 https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/raa87b8c9d2ecf36aaf3bb67786625f2e February 23 Noon-2PM Probability (Hint: Reliability is Applied Probability)-Part 1 https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r89c1a886e83ecb525cf3c449c72eb49d March 8 Noon-2PM Probability (Hint: Reliability is Applied Probability)-Part 2 https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/rb4f0850cf79efa5d779f9223d044018b ...

Ellis R. Ott Scholarship For Applied Statistics And Quality Management

By Tim Gaens posted 02/05/24
Ellis R. Ott Scholarships Supporting Graduate Students in Applied Statistics and Quality Management In honor of Dr. Ellis R. Ott, late professor at Rutgers University and a founder of ASQ, the Ellis R. Ott Scholarship program awards two scholarships annually of $7500 to graduate students enrolled in or accepted to a master’s or doctoral program in the US or Canada in applied statistics or quality management or related fields.This competitive scholarship aims to support students who are passionate about improving quality and advancing the field of statistics. This program provides financial assistance to help graduate students achieve their educational ...

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Zero Failures: Calculate Reliability With No Recorded Failures

By Tim Gaens posted 02/04/24
On Thursday, January 11, 2024 Tim Adams presented: ASQ RRD series webinar: Zero Failures: Calculate Reliability with No Recorded Failures Agenda This presentation for the practitioner provides methods with an illustrated Microsoft Excel tool to calculate reliability when the life-data set contains no recorded failures (zero Failures). The methods address both types of data (discrete and continuous) and both types of statistics (classical and Bayesian). The desired outcome is: Given life data with no failures and the zero-failure Excel tool, calculate reliability, interpret the result, and describe the method(s) used. The prerequisites are familiarity ...

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Intro To Reliability: Probability Part 2

By Tim Gaens posted 02/04/24
ASQ RRD series webinar: Intro to Reliability: Probability part 2 Date and time: Friday, March 8, 2024 12:00 PM | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Register link: https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/rb4f0850cf79efa5d779f9223d044018b

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Intro To Reliability: Probability Part 1

By Tim Gaens posted 02/04/24
ASQ RRD series webinar: Intro to Reliability: Probability part 1 Date and time: Friday, February 23, 2024 12:00 PM | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Register link: https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r89c1a886e83ecb525cf3c449c72eb49d

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Conducting Risk Assessment For Non-Homogeneous Population With Defects

By Tim Gaens posted 02/04/24
ASQ RRD series webinar: Conducting risk assessment for non-homogeneous population with defects. Presented by Andre Kleyner. Thursday, March 14, 2024 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Register for webinar https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/r862ebc02918c447cd2f38380397d9d96 Agenda When a portion of the product population is impacted by a defect, predicting field performance and conducting risk assessment becomes challenging, introducing a high degree of uncertainty into the analysis. This challenge is particularly pronounced when the percentage of the defective population is unknown a priori. This webinar addresses ...

Free Intro to Reliability Engineering course via webinar sessions

By Trevor Craney posted 01/29/24
A free Intro to Rel Eng course is being taught in 2-hour segments via webinar. It is being taught by Jim Breneman, ASQ Fellow. The course is offered by the ASQ Reliability and Risk Division. An introductory webinar will occur on Feb 8 and the course begins on Feb 9. See the flyer for more details or go directly to the website at: www.asqrrd.org/asq-rrd-series-webinar-introduction-to-reliability/

RMMR 2024 – July 25-26, 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Call For Abstracts

By Tim Gaens posted 01/06/24
July 25-26, 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Call for Abstracts R&M Risk Management in Real-World Environments We invite you to submit abstracts for the presentations at the 4th Annual Reliability, Maintenance & Managing Risk Conference (RMMR 2024) to be held on July 25-26, 2024 (with pre-conference courses to be offered on July 24), in Pittsburgh, PA. RMMR 2024 is sponsored by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Reliability and Risk Division (RRD). It is a forum for the quality and reliability practitioners, asset and risk managers, statisticians, and academic researchers to come together to share and learn from each other. ...

Recording: ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Vibration Analysis

By Tim Gaens posted 01/06/24
On Thursday, December 14, Michael Keohane presented ASQ RRD series webinar: Vibration analysis Agenda 1 – Who is Acoem? 2 – Why Condition Monitoring Types of Maintenance Design, Installation Potential Failure DIPF Curve Run to Failure Time Based Condition Based 2 – Vibration Terminology Displacement Velocity Acceleration Speciality Bearing Defect Shock finder 3 – Typical Machinery Faults Resonance Unbalance Misalignment Bad Bearings Pump Cavitation Lubrication 4 – Time Waveform and Spectrum 5 – Vibration Sensors and Applications ICP Accelerometers Wireless Sensors 6 – Case History 7 – Applications Michael Keohane is a Senior Technical Sales Engineer for ...

RU’s When Watching Recorded Videos System Fixed

By Tim Gaens posted 01/06/24
Good news, the RU for watching recorded webinar system. is up and running again. All people that missed the RU’s due to the bug and maintenance already received an email to provide their earned RU’s. If you still think you are missing RU’s for webinars watched on the ASQ RRD Website, please contact tim(at)asqrrd.org 34 webinars are currently available in the system and the number is growing every month. Find the webinars here: https://asqrrd.org/recorded-webinars/

New Year New Leadership

By Tim Gaens posted 01/06/24
ASQ Reliability and Risk Division is starting the New Year with a New Leadership. We welcome Rong Pan – Chair, David Auda – Chair-Elect and Mohammad Pourgol – Secretary to help us guide into 2024. Stay tuned for leadership messages and updates in the future. Rong Pan – CHAIR Dr. Rong Pan (PhD, Penn State) is the Chair of the ASQ Reliability & Risk Division, has research interests in statistical modeling and data analysis, specifically in the design and analysis of experimental designs, quality and reliability engineering, statistical learning theory, and the development of digital manufacturing. He is a senior member of ASQ, IISE and IEEE, and ...

ASQ RRD Series Webinar: Introduction To Reliability

By Tim Gaens posted 12/04/23
The ASQRRD February 8 webinar will introduce a semester length course “Introduction to Reliability Engineering” that will be spread over 2024. Thursday, February 8, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) https://asq.webex.com/weblink/register/re121ddaaf728441b5e084bd140f3e948 The 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month beginning in February 2024 from Noon to 2:00 EST will be used to break down a semester length course following roughly the outline: Introduction and course outline, what it’s all about! Probability (Hint: Reliability is Applied Probability) Discrete and Continuous distributions Distributions continued…Weibull ...