Resilient Engineering

Ensure trouble-free product and process launches

Discover & address critical factors now, before they impact your design, reliability, and reputation

with Resilient Engineering

Worrying about what you might have missed can drive you sleepless

Your design needs to be robust. You’ve got the majority figured out but there are still some unknowns you’re unsure about. And with each unkown being a potential high cost fix or severe failure later on, the pressure is on to prevent it NOW.

Using Resilient Engineering, you can.

Understand the risks

Find high risk functions with our unique Risk Priority Number (RPN) Analysis and build an understanding of your product or process using our function based approach.

Uncover critical Relationships

Find the critical factors that affect your important performance metrics. Validate measurement systems and prepare for testing.

Apply innovative testing

Design test plans for the critical relationships to fully understand how your system performs. With that understanding, you will be poised to develop and implement proven solutions for your design.

Preventing Failures together

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When reliability matters

You can't afford doubts

Listing every failure mode you can think of and implementing a prevention isn’t 100%. What if your team misses something? Stop focusing on the “what-ifs” and start focusing on what must go right.

  • No more endless failure mode lists
  • No more inability to test critical features
  • No more hoping you captured it all
  • No more sleepless nights

Resilient engineering: Our Unique approach

The critical & functional Few

During design, time is not on your side. The key to trouble free launches, lower cost design changes and increased reliability is early failure mode identification and resolution. And if you’re designing something new that hasn’t been done before, the “possible failures” are potentially infinite. But to design a product that works, you only need to control the critical few functions that truly impact your end result. Resilient Engineering helps to identify the high-risk areas and resolve the what-ifs.

What makes it unique?

The Framework, the tools & the Mindset

Pareto

The Framework

We begin by identifying the high risk areas in your design, using our unique risk assessment. We find Pareto in this way by considering the severity of a possible failure, your experience with achieving a function in the past, and how significantly the requirements are changing.

Function Models

The Tools

With high risk functions identified, we expand the group’s understanding of the design by building an in depth function model. We work with cross functional teams from your company to build a function model that everyone can understand, as it will serve as the foundation for developing conceptualized faiure mode testing.

Must Go Right

The Mindset

Resilient Engineering is meant to complement your existing design process, focusing on the highest risk areas that need extra attention. From the risk assessment to the conceptualized testing, the guiding question is “What has to go right?”. While other methods focus on “what could go wrong”, we work to understand what must go right and focus intensely on ensuring that those things happen, thereby ensuring the robustness of your design.

Ready to start resolving your doubts?

From the Case Files:

Special Purpose Vehicle Case

Project Background:

A Shainin client has been chosen as one of the finalists to be awarded a multi billion dollar contract to produce a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to replace an existing all-terrain vehicle.

The Challenge:

The SPV chassis electrical system contains a number of new functions with unproven components that are required by the end-purchaser. Client engineering executives are nervous about the “unknowns” in the chassis electrical system.

The Assignment:

Expose high risk areas of the chassis electrical system design so they can be addressed proactively to improve performance and field reliability prior to evaluation and testing.

The Result:

Shainin’s client had the only design that passed the rigorous requirements of the testing. They were awarded the SPV contract.

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The Method:

  • Strategy: Resilient Engineering
  • Prioritized high risk functions
  • Linked high risk functions to their system inputs
  • Diagnosed short comings in the current design
  • Developed a custom test plan
  • Implemented design changes to avoid failures and ensure functionality

Mitigate your Risks

Minimize Risk & Increase Design Confidence

Resilient isn’t a replacement, it’s a complement to your existing product development and launch processes. Enhance your design reliability with tools created to minimize the high-risk areas of new designs. Don’t continue to wonder if you missed something. Choose confidence in your design with a proven strategy.

Start designing trouble-free launches

The Issue:

Designing a product that hasn’t been done before? Does project success rely on your prototype? Need to identify and control the critical factors that affect your designs?

The Solution:

A Resilient Engineering Problem Solving Engagement

One of our dedicated problem-solving experts will come to your facility to assist you in identifying and mitigating your critical design risks.

How It Works:
  1. Setting the Scope | We’ll meet to review your project & prepare a custom strategy
  2. Identify Critical Factors | Our strategy will help your team identify the critical factors affecting your design and determine appropriate counter-measures.
  3. Test & Implement Solutions | Together, we’ll test solutions to mitigate those risks. Once implemented, you and your team can rest assured that your design is resilient. 

You don't get much time to design it 'just right', Don't wait until the errors and what-ifs get costly.

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innovative structure & laser focus that yields unique & impactful solutions

Let our team of dedicated problem solvers help identify high-risk functions and drill down to uncover potential weaknesses. Contact us today to team up!

Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

Product Development
PROJECT OF THE YEAR

This category recognizes technical problems solved during product development and launch. These projects typically have small sample sizes to work with. Product development begins the lifecycle of a product. Projects that win this award will demonstrate:

  • Potential impact of the problem.
  • Effective use of the Shainin Red X® tools to uncover the root cause.
  • The timeline of resolution from initial discovery to solution implemented. 
  • Explanation of lessons learned and how to use this knowledge in the future.

Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

Field Reliability
PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Field failures impact more than just your bottom line. This category is dedicated to projects that focus on field issues such as ‘No Trouble Found’, fatigue failures, and other destructive or malfunction events. Projects that win this award will demonstrate:

  • Initial impact of the problem.
  • Creative and effective use of the Shainin Red X® tools to uncover the root cause.
  • Speed and efficiency in resolving the issue.  
  • Impact of resolving the problem.

Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

PLANT MANUFACTURING
PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Manufacturing is a world all its own. With the fast-moving pace, the speed of solving problems matters. The Plant Manufacturing Project of the Year Award recognizes projects that resolve complex problems in ongoing production which impact the end user, company bottom line, production quality rates, and the like. Projects that win this award will demonstrate:

  • Technical difficulty or complexity in resolving the issue.
  • Creative and effective use of the Shainin Red X® tools to uncover the root cause.
  • How the solution or information discovered was leveraged.
  • Timeline for resolving the issue.
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John Abrahamian

Executive VP - Problem Solving

John Abrahamian is a highly respected problem solver as well as an expert in the field of Lean manufacturing, with a career spanning over three decades. Throughout his career, John has become renowned for his innovative approach to problem-solving and his unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction. 
  
After receiving his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1985, John began his career as a design and development engineer at Pratt & Whitney. It was during this time that his interest in problem-solving first emerged. By 1994, John had become a Continuous Improvement Manager at the company. During his tenure, John led Pratt & Whitney’s efforts in Lean manufacturing and Value Engineering. 
  
In 1990, John began pursuing his MBA in Operations Management, where he was first introduced to the concept of Lean manufacturing, and this influenced the direction of his career. In 1996, he was encouraged by his Pratt & Whitney team to take Shainin Red X training, building on his Lean manufacturing efforts. This training proved to be a turning point in John’s career, igniting his passion for problem-solving and setting him on a path to becoming one of the industry’s most respected experts. 
  
In 1998, John joined Shainin, where he has spent the last 25 years pursuing his passion for problem-solving. During his time here, John has developed innovative approaches to problem-solving, having received a US Patent for a problem-solving method. He also integrated function analysis into Shainin methods, seeding what would ultimately become Resilient Engineering.  
  
Despite his busy schedule, John still finds time to pursue his hobbies, which include golfing, stand-up paddleboarding, and skeet shooting. He especially enjoys traveling with his wife and spending time with family, including his three grandsons. 
  
Having the opportunity to work in a wide variety of industries, experiencing different cultures and meeting new and interesting people gives John the kind of job satisfaction that makes him grateful to be in this field of work. He truly enjoys creating meaningful relationships with his customers and inspiring ordinary engineers to become extraordinary problem solvers. 

Dorian Awards Criteria

Red X® Master of the Year Award

The Red X® Master of the Year Award is for leaders with a Red X® Master Certification who have increased the impact of problem solving using Shainin technologies within their organization. To be considered for this award, the submission must meet the following criteria:

  • Applies leadership skills to expand the impact of Shainin technologies within the organization.
  • Results include projects that made a significant impact improving business performance.
  • The number of individuals coached to certification.

Dorian Awards Criteria

Team Project Awards

This category of awards is for project teams who have demonstrated outstanding application of Shainin methodologies in solving complex problems within their company.

To be considered for this award, the submission must meet the following criteria:

  • Speed and efficiency of the problem solved
  • Technical difficulty and complexity of the problem solved
  • Project impact and leverage across the organization
  • Creative use of Shainin technologies
  • Clarity of the project documentation