...The ABC’s of Failure – Getting Rid of the Noise in Your System For the past 40 years, I have observed many companies, including DuPont (where I spent 27 years) pursuing planned maintenance with the standard tools of planned maintenance: inspections, planning, scheduling, materials procurement, CMMS systems, etc. with the same results. They succeed for a while and get their percent planned and scheduled maintenance up to the 80+ only to see that drop back later to 60 I am amazed how many of the companies we work with have had this experience. This pattern of behavior has led us to conclude that the reason for this experience is that only 60% of the normal work of maintenance is inherently plannable. The rest of the work is created by random acts of what we are now calling care-lessness. The sites where we see people break this pattern and achieve 92% to 96% planned maintenance for the long term without regressing, are the ones who eliminate the inherently unplannable work. Of course, this cannot be done by maintenance alone. Everyone who does work at a site contributes to the defects that create the unplannable work, and therefore everyone must participate in eliminating the defects that create the 40% of the work that is unplannable. In the diagram below we attempt to more clearly articulate the true significance of Defect Elimination by outlining the ABC’s of failure. Fundamentally, failures happen because things that exist are not perfect. To reduce failures we must eliminate...
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...During the design and implementation of a reliable distributed system is a very important. The failure of this system can result in easily repairable errors, such as hardware, software, or catastrophic meltdowns where hardware overloads, hardware crashes that were not protected. Faults can occur in any of the components of a distributed system. There are four types of failures more commonly known as compute cluster which allows applications to run on more than one computer (node). Data centric systems that involve high volumes of access are more difficult to make fault tolerant. They require failure monitoring software and a special configuration. These types of systems are high availability clusters that allow two or more computers and a set of shared disks. Any application can be installed on the shared disk which allows all other computers access, with certain restrictions designated for each user or pc. The running application's node has exclusive access to the application's data on disk. Specific applications may run very well from this type of system. The application may fail on the shared disk and the nodes exclusive access is terminated and is granted to another node in the cluster. The application is restarted on a new node, which the user will notice a slight interrupt and lose of some data. Design issues are very important in utilizing the multiplicity of processors and storage devices transparent to users. In a conventional, centralized system the user interface...
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...Some people think that their lives are hard and full of disappointment; well I am one of those people. No matter how hard you try, Thers , I still face problems. It is as if my life is an ocean of endless problems and disappointments; however one of the disappointments I have faced happens to be the most interesting part of my life. I had been learning how to drive for five month. I was spending part of my life in the car, but I kept up with that to get my license and enjoy the freedom of being able to go wherever I wanted, whenever I wanted. The day I had my driving test was the day I would find out if all the effort and time I had put into driving was worth it or not. The day before my driving test was one of the worst and darkest days of my life because I was extremely nervous and worried about the judgment day, which was the next day. My brothers and sisters teased me about failing the road test. We went through all the instructions and all other details that there was to know. I usually sleep late, but on the day before my driving test I slept unusually early. During my sleep, I kept imagining failing the test the next day, and I couldn't stop thinking about it. However, I tried to stop thinking about tomorrow and tried to get a good night's sleep, which would be an advantage for me when taking the test. Finally, I slept like a baby without any nightmares this time. On the big day, I woke up to my alarm and got ready to be picked up by my uncle to go to the DMV, where I...
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...In the blog post “Embracing Suckage”, Willam Van Winkle states that people should not care about how people think, but they should work hard to fix the failure that they have been made in order to learn and improve. I totally agree failure is the important part of human life because no one are born to be perfect and failure must be happened to all the people of the world. Few weeks ago, I got a new job in a Malaysian restaurant as a server. The first week is the hardest week for me because they have a lot of food names, ingredients and rules that needed to be memorized. Of course, I made a lot of mistakes in the first week, but I didn’t hesitated to fix the problem that I made. First, I was slow like a snail to type in the order on the computer, and my workmates had to wait me until I found the name and sent it in to the kitchen. Second, I often order some food that customer did not order because of some food names are similar. After I learned from all those fail, I learned all the food names, ingredients and rules in this coupe weeks. Now, I can type in order faster without mistake and take care of all the customer’s question professionally. Everyone must experience some fails to make things better and better. The best way to ameliorate ourselves is to fail repeatedly and learn from it to make the failure become...
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...A Failure to Comply Justine Marie R. Masangcap It is disappointing to see and to hear that President Noynoy Aquino’s Daaang Matuwid program against corruption has failed. From PNoy’s latest SONA, the programs that succeeded are enumerated and expounded. Education and poverty are upheld, but many say that it is still not worthy. The administration is still lacking in terms of programs and actions. Pay once said that during his reign, there will be a “Wang-Wang” ban and road reconstructions for better and easier travel, but the MMDA office is still experiencing traffics, transportation problems and road failures. Employees get late for work, students wake up earlier to prevent the traffic, business produce low profit and a lot experience headache and frustration. The Aquino Administration is fighting corruption, they uphold programs and services for funds and other financial matters, but why is it that DepEd is having problems in finances for the teachers’ salary and for school renovations? There are low number of teachers, low number of school facilities, but high number of students. It is not balanced and proportional. These situations may lead to students’ lacking knowledge just like in the latest news saying that a lot of pupils are asking why Apolinario Mabini is sitting in the whole movie of “Heneral Luna” considering he is one of the country’s heroes. In terms of poverty matters, it is said that the rate from the start of his reign up until now lessen, but it is not transparent...
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...shot way to get a highly paid and high ranked job in a large MNC. He was lured by big advertisements of business schools which promised the students an ultra-modern campus and dream jobs. But even after attending over 25-30 job interviews, the best job he was offered was of sales executive with a “CTC” of rupees 2.5 lakh per annum but having fixed salary component of less than 10,000 rupees a month. Most of us reading this true story will perceive the reason for Rajesh’s problem to be “Lack of skills or knowledge”. However the careful analysis leads us to a completely different perspective of the situation. The actual problem with Rajesh was that while his ambitions were high, he was not well prepared to handle failures. In fact his high ambitions made each failure appear bigger in his self appraisal....
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...Hulya Er Summary/Response Essay Failure is not Daunting Undoubtedly, nearly all of us want to become successful, advance up our career ladders and attain better social ranking, so our vocabulary repertoire does not comprise the concept of failure. At schools, teachers lay great stress on the significance of academic achievement. In the field of popular psychology, many books like 99 Steps or Tips for Accomplishment are written about how people achieve success. Even though numerous people pay attention to the value of success especially in this Era of Knowledge, saying “failure is a good thing” astonishes me. In Jon Carroll’s article, “Failure is a Good Thing”, he asserts that failure is a beginning, not the end of the world. Failure is how we learn, that is, failure is a natural part of our learning process and a proof that we are trying. Carroll also contends that success is boring since it becomes tedious after a while because of not feeding the soul and keeping us from risking and trying new things. Most of us fear failure, but failure and believing in the possibility of it offer some oppurtunities: It encourages creativity, provides us with new beginnings, and reminds us of being human. First of all, fault is an important teacher that promotes innovation as Jon Carroll connotated. Some of our most memorable lessons come from the stories of our biggest mistakes. The history books are full of those who failed repeatedly before reaching the zenith of success in their fields:...
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...Fear of Failure Fear of failing, or atychiphobia, has been present in one form or another in everyones lives. What a failure means to one person is completely variable to another and what matters most is how you handle it and go forward afterwards. William Faulkner stated, “Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.” Some people become so stricken with the image of failure that they become immobilized and cannot even bring themselves to start the task at hand. There are others however who embrace the challenge and view failure as a learning curve and opportunity not to the make the same mistake twice. Failure exists in every person’s life and can define our existence and character. Understanding that fear jeopardizes success and from failure we gain new insights, the question arises as to why people are so afraid to fail in the first place. People like to understand where things originate and how they became as they are so let’s discuss fear of failure and it’s roots. As a child in school for example, commonly if a child fails they are not given rewards. In some school culture the football player that doesn’t kick the football highest is a wimp, the one who failed that last math test is dumb, or if you didn’t make in on the basketball team you’re a loser. The harsh reality is, many of us have felt like other people judge our failures. Our focus is emphasized too much on visible success and not the ways...
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...Failure is Never an Option No matter how you may approach a situation, there will always be a gain or a win. In this case, it’s referred to as an obstacle or opportunity. An obstacle is somebody or something that hinders or prevents progress. In life, everyone faces an obstacle, be it big or small. An opportunity is a chance, one that offers some kind of advantage. Just like an obstacle, you will always face ways of opportunities. Just because you failed at a task doesn’t mean you will fail at life. One thing I was always brought up on was never underestimate you. I feel as when you do underestimate yourself, you will not succeed at it. To me, negativity never gets you anywhere. Someone who complains all the time will be known as a complainer. Someone who purposely fails themselves in life will always be viewed as a failure at life. No one wants to be seen as that because no one would ever give them the encouragement or the support that makes them want to succeed. One thing that will make sure you guarantee not to fail is by eliminating failure as an option. By eliminating failure as an option, it automatically gives you a better attitude on things. You will start to feel confident in yourself and confident in whatever you do. The saying “it’s often easier said than done” is true on so many different levels. A person may say they will do something or say something to someone, and not necessarily mean it. When a person say they will work hard on a project, a task, etc. it’s...
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...Jennifer Paredes Leadership Failures: 5 Stumbling Blocks Do new managers live up to the expectations of the people who hired them and to the employees that they are managing? The article I found on Business Daily stated that based on a study, that almost 40% of new chief executives fail within their first 18 months of being on the job. On top of them failing within that time frame they also fail to live up to the expectations had by the people that hired them or promoted them. What I found interesting is that the article breaks down 5 stumbling blocks most managers face and what eventually leads them to failure. Over or under confidence was defined as being a manager that was either to full of themselves or completely unsure on how to properly make decisions; which then makes them ineffective in their role. It pointed out something that I know I’ve thought a few time and that is in our own minds we all have our own ideas of what type of manager we would want to be. Now really thinking about it I don’t know if I have the skills or qualities to actually live up to the type of manager I would want to be. Their next stumbling block was something that I’ve seen often and that is approaching leadership with the wrong expectations. Managers need the tools and resources in order to successfully manage a team, and with the lack of proper training and knowledge some managers end up unsuccessful in their position. This approach defines managers as being unprepared of what they will...
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...Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal What is failure? William Zinsser doesn’t believe that just because you drop out, doesn’t mean you just failed the toughest class you would ever take called life. Confucius once said, “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” Just like Zinsser Confucius also thought that one’s success doesn’t have to depend on working hard it could also depend on failing at something that doesn’t work. There’s rarely such a thing as failure usually it’s success at finding what doesn’t work. William Zinsser was a writing professor at Yale University in the 1970. William Zinsser was also a writer, columnist, editor, and critic. William Zinsser thought that, one shouldn’t be afraid to fail, because sometimes one will find what one is really looking for in failing. College isn’t for everybody one should standup for oneself and do what one really love to do. It’s okay to dropout but it shouldn’t be a goal of yours. Sometimes one has to fail to succeed. One should also stay true to who one’s self to succeed. “For the young, dropping out is often a way of dropping in.” William Zinsser stated in ‘The Right To Fail’ as an over all conclusion to what a dropout is defined as. Consequently, success is simply a matter of luck confined in anybody that has once failed then succeeded. “I only mean that failure isn’t bad in itself, or success automatically good.” Zinsser stated in passage about...
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...Hardware Failure Transient faults, intermittent faults and Permanent faults are the three types of component errors. A transient deficiency happens once and then vanishes. In the event that the operation has repeated then the system will function typically. An irregular fault emerges, then goes away, surfaces again and the cycle repeats. A typical reason for an irregular interruption is a faulty or loose contact on a connector. These issues are frustrating and hard to maintain due to their intermittent behavior. Finally there are permanent faults created by faulty parts. The system will not function until the part is swapped. Worn out chips, programming bugs and processor errors are all patterns of undying flaws. Byzantine Failure The processor is special component, and it can fail in three ways, fail quietly, Byzantine and break. All lead to an alternate type of malfunction. A fail-stop, shortcoming happens when a processor quits working. It generally will not acknowledge inputs and will not output anything, with the exception of maybe to say it is no longer working. Byzantine liabilities happen when a flawed processor keeps on running, giving wrong answers and perhaps working with other defective processors to give the notion that they are working as they should. Compared with fail-silent errors, Byzantine issues are complex to diagnose and more complicated to manage. A slow-down fault happens when a certain processor executes slowly but surely. That processor may be named...
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...Memory Failure Memory Failure Memory failure is a main focus of extensive psychological research, after memory construction was delineated into three stages; encoding, storage, and retrieval, the origin of thought behind memory failure was solely on the breakdown of the first two stages, encoding and storage, until shifting its focus at the hands of Endel Tulving, who discovered the actual primary cause was due to a disruption in the third stage, thus termed retrieval failure. Retrieval failure is simply defined as the inability to access information, and the reason behind the ‘tip of the tongue’ phenomenon. My Failed Memory As I walked with my patient into my first school meeting to test my ability as a community liaison, I felt confident. Not only did I wake up early enough to study her chart, background, and write down her effective coping mechanisms; I brewed a fresh cup of coffee, reminiscent of the one I drink each day and night, and arrived on-site just in time to see her arrive. As I sipped my coffee, watched her mothers van park, mouthed the words to a song on my playlist while checking my timing, I felt on top of all my tasks – surely going to impress. Shortly there after, unbeknownst to me, getting my patient out of the van and into the school was much more challenging then I planned for. Employing my verbal de-escalation skills, and helping communication tactics for Mom and daughter, I successfully aided her out of the van and onto school grounds. Leaving my...
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...Falling off your bike, missing a popfly coming straight to you, or not passing a quiz: failure surrounds us whether we like it or not. Failure always seems to discourage people from trying and that’s a shame. I’m comfortable with admitting my failures unlike most people. I take my failures and absorb the lessons from each one. . For example, I learn from all my losses in wrestling. I’m not the best wrestler, I’ll be the first to tell you that, but I always try my hardest in my matches. No matter the outcome of the match, I ask my coach what I did wrong and what I can do better just to help me learn. That’s the key to improvement. A good example of this is when I first learned to wrestle. The first time anyone does something, they’re probably...
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...Failures Paper Charles Persinger University of Phoenix POS/355 Jeff Rugg April 28, 2014 Simply put, distributed computing is allowing computers to work together in groups to solve a single problem too large for any one of them to perform on its own. Distributed computing is not a simple matter of just sticking the computers together. For a distributed computation to work effectively, those systems must cooperate, and must do so without lots of manual intervention by people. This is usually done by splitting problems into smaller pieces, each of which can be tackled more simply than the whole problem. The results of doing each piece are then reassembled into the full solution. As handy as a distributed system can be there are a there are four main issues you could face: Operating system failures, Hardware Failures, Omission Failures and Byzantine Failures. Crash failures are caused across the server of a typical distributed system and if these failures are occurred operations of the server are halt for some time. Operating system failures are the best examples for this case and the corresponding fault tolerant systems are developed with respect to these affects. Hardware failures used to be more common, but with all of the recent innovations in hardware design and manufacturing they tend to be fewer and far between with most of these physical failures tending to be network or drive related. With more hardware the probability goes up that there will...
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