Reliability Culture - How Leaders Build Organizations That Create Reliable Products

By outlining how reliability engineering practices fit within a product development program, the reader will have a better understanding of how roles and goals align with the program and how this applies to their specific role.
 
Reliability Culture: How Leaders Build Organizations that Create Reliable Products, will help readers develop a deep understanding of reliability, including what it really means for organizations, how to implement it in daily operations, and, most importantly, how to build a culture that is centered around reliability and can generate impressive profits. When senior leaders work toward reliability, product details often get lost in translation. This book will enable organizations to overcome this problem by showing leaders how their actions truly affect product development. They will be introduced to new methods that will immediately enable them to have carefully crafted product specifications translated into matching, highly reliable products. This book will also be a breath of fresh air for reliability engineers and managers; they will see their daily struggle identified and will learn new methods for advancing their passionate struggle. These new methods will be clearly explained, so readers can begin the important process of incorporating and promoting reliability in their organizations. Benefits of this book include:
* For the organizational leader, this book provides tools for aligning reliability objectives and methods with the company?s business and brand goals
* For the reliability engineer, this book identifies and proposes solutions for integrating their discipline within the larger program objective and activities
* Engineers and leaders alike will benefit from detailed discussions of product negotiation, program assessment, culture change methods, and more
* All readers will understand the progression of product design methods over the previous decades, including how market acceptance is changing
 
Reliability Culture: How Leaders Build Organizations that Create Reliable Products is intended for a broad audience that includes organizational leaders, engineers of all disciplines, project managers, and business development partners. The book is aimed at outlining how reliability engineering practices fit with all program activities, so any team members will benefit.

List of contents

Series Editor's Foreword [to follow]
 
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
Chapter 1. The Product Development Challenge 3
 
Key Players 3
 
Follow the Carrot or Get out of the Race. 6
 
I'm not That I'm Lazy, it's that I just don't care. 8
 
Product Specification Profiles 11
 
Product Drivers 14
 
Bounding Factors 15
 
Reliability Discipline 16
 
Chapter 2 Balancing Business Goals and Reliability 1
 
Return on Investment 1
 
Program Accounting 4
 
Rule of 10s 4
 
The Reliability Engineers Responsibility to Connect to the Business Case 10
 
Role of the Reliability Professional 13
 
Summary 16
 
Chapter 3. Directed Product Development Culture 1
 
The Past, Present, and Future of Reliability Engineering 3
 
Influences 4
 
The Invention of "Inventing" 6
 
Quality and Inventing are Behaviours 9
 
As Always, WWII Changed Everything 11
 
The Post War Influence Diminishes 13
 
Reliability Is No Longer a Luxury 16
 
Understand the Intent 19
 
Levels of Awareness 21
 
Summary 23
 
Chapter 4 2
 
Awakening, The Stages to Mature Product Development 2
 
Accountability 4
 
Ownership Chart 9
 
Communicating Clearly 14
 
Behind the Words at Work 16
 
When you want to improve 19
 
My personal case 20
 
When we can't communicate at the organizational level 23
 
Summary 30
 
Chapter 5 2
 
Testing Intent 2
 
Transferring Ownership 6
 
What transferred ownership looks like 13
 
Guided by All The Goals All The Time 16
 
Summary 19
 
Chapter 6 New Roles 1
 
Role of Change Agents 2
 
Reliability Czar 5
 
The Czar is a link 6
 
Direct Input 7
 
Distilling Information 8
 
Who is the Czar? 9
 
How the Czar works with the Team and Leadership 12
 
Tips for the Czar 14
 
Role of Facilitators 15
 
Facilitation Technique 16
 
Creating a Narrative 19
 
Role of Reliability Professionals 21
 
Stop Asking for Resource 21
 
Connect Reliability to the Market 22
 
Summary 25
 
Chapter 7 Program Assessment: 1
 
Measurements 1
 
What to Measure 3
 
Using Reliability Testing as Program Guidance 6
 
The Primary Wear-out Failure Mode 9
 
The Random Fail Rate During Use Life 10
 
Reliability Maturity Assessments 11
 
Steps for an Assessment 12
 
The Team 14
 
The Topics 16
 
The Scoring 17
 
Analyze, The Reliability Maturity Matrix 19
 
Review with the Team and Summarize 21
 
Recommend Actions 22
 
Assess Particular Areas in More Detail 23
 
Golden Nuggets 24
 
Summary 24
 
Chapter 8 Reliability Culture Tools 1
 
Advancing Culture 1
 
Manipulative Managing 3
 
Transfer Why 5
 
Reliability Bounding 6
 
Strategy Bounding 7
 
Bounding ROI 11
 
Invest and Return Tables 14
 
Deciding by Bounding 19
 
Anchoring 20
 
Intent Anchor 22
 
Delivery Anchor 24
 
Focus Rotation 26
 
The Focus Rotation Steps 27
 
Working in Freedom and with Ownership 29
 
Summary 32
 
Chapter 9 Guiding the Program in Motion 1
 
Guidance Bounding 1
 
Guide Bounding ROI 2
 
Program Risk Effects Analysis 7
 
Fully Access Risk 10
 
Program fr

About the author

ADAM P. BAHRET is Founder of Apex Ridge Reliability, a reliability engineering consulting firm. He has an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University and is a Certified Reliability Engineer and a member of ASQ and IEEE. He has spoken at conferences such as RAMS, ASTR, and Reliability Days. Mr. Bahret is author of the second edition of How Reliable is Your Product: 50 Ways to Improve Product Reliability.

Summary

By outlining how reliability engineering practices fit within a product development program, the reader will have a better understanding of how roles and goals align with the program and how this applies to their specific role.

Reliability Culture: How Leaders Build Organizations that Create Reliable Products, will help readers develop a deep understanding of reliability, including what it really means for organizations, how to implement it in daily operations, and, most importantly, how to build a culture that is centered around reliability and can generate impressive profits. When senior leaders work toward reliability, product details often get lost in translation. This book will enable organizations to overcome this problem by showing leaders how their actions truly affect product development. They will be introduced to new methods that will immediately enable them to have carefully crafted product specifications translated into matching, highly reliable products. This book will also be a breath of fresh air for reliability engineers and managers; they will see their daily struggle identified and will learn new methods for advancing their passionate struggle. These new methods will be clearly explained, so readers can begin the important process of incorporating and promoting reliability in their organizations. Benefits of this book include:
* For the organizational leader, this book provides tools for aligning reliability objectives and methods with the company?s business and brand goals
* For the reliability engineer, this book identifies and proposes solutions for integrating their discipline within the larger program objective and activities
* Engineers and leaders alike will benefit from detailed discussions of product negotiation, program assessment, culture change methods, and more
* All readers will understand the progression of product design methods over the previous decades, including how market acceptance is changing

Reliability Culture: How Leaders Build Organizations that Create Reliable Products is intended for a broad audience that includes organizational leaders, engineers of all disciplines, project managers, and business development partners. The book is aimed at outlining how reliability engineering practices fit with all program activities, so any team members will benefit.

Product details

• Authors: Adam P Bahret, Adam P. Bahret, Ap Bahret
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781119612438
• ISBN: 978-1-119-61243-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Quality and Reliability Engineering Series; Wiley Series in Quality and Reliability Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Management, Qualität, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik, Quality & Reliability, Qualität u. Zuverlässigkeit, Management im Ingenieurwesen, Engineering Management