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29 – The Role of Training in Maintenance & Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

29 – The Role of Training in Maintenance & Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

The Role of Training in Maintenance & Reliability with Fred Schenkelberg

Today’s episode is about the role of training in affecting change. Sometimes you need to train the workforce to work better than the beginners but that completely depends on the culture of the organization and skills, knowledge, and abilities of the employees working out there.
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28 – Designing for Maintainability with Fred Schenkelberg

28 – Designing for Maintainability with Fred Schenkelberg

Designing for Maintainability with Fred Schenkelberg

This episode of the weekly podcast covers the need of designing for maintainability. It is one of the biggest processes involved in the area of reliability and helps in improving the availability of the equipment in time. So first of all, we need to understand what this term is —and the tools and techniques that are required to make it successful.
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27 – Designing for Reliability: The First Step in Reliability

Designing for Reliability: The First Step in Reliability

This episode is about designing for reliability. It has been proven over time that the best inventions are designed properly after planning them and before implementation — even in the earlier times people used to draw things before they actually made them. After you have done an analysis of the equipment, there is not even close to good probability to make that product completely reliable. That is why a good design should be made before developing anything for which companies hire professional designers and good ones have their own designing teams too.
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13 – The 5 Levels of Maintenance Scheduling

The 5 Levels of Maintenance Scheduling

This episode of the weekly episode is about 5 levels of maintenance scheduling. These levels are a hierarchical series of schedule plans which really help to improve the scheduling process of any organization. These are:

  • The 52-week schedule is the start of the implementation of these levels which provides the foundation of the Scheduling Horizon system. It enables the operation to focus on the exceptions, not the norms. The 52-week schedule is a high-level view of the reoccurring work. This includes Inspection and Planned Maintenance as this can continue for a whole year. Once the reoccurring work has been identified, it needs to be leveled. This ensures there is a consistent amount of reoccurring work each week. This level workload establishes the equipment requirements each week. This can be integrated with the operations scheduling to further define equipment requirements. An important note with 52-weeks scheduling. Specific work orders are not identified during this horizon. The schedule only looks at capacity requirements.

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12 – The 7 Steps of a Work Management Cycle

The 7 Steps of a Work Managements Cycle

This episode of the weekly podcast is about Work Managements Cycle. WMC is the most basic framework any organization has in place to evaluate its performance and make improvements if needed. This cycle consists of 7-steps that when completed successfully make it possible to execute the Maintenance Plan and Scheduling Process. These steps are as follows:
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11 – What is a Well Written Job Plan?

What is a Well Written Job Plan?

This show of the podcast is based on Job Plans.

These job plans are documents that contain a step by step action routine for daily maintenance issues that arise in an organization. It is a procedural process that defines the performance standards for execution of day to day work.

These plans are improved over time as the technicians face issues in the field and give feedback on their experiences to the planner.

This leads to a job plan which has some safest and efficient ways to implement jobs in the field creating a good Knowledge Management System which works as a library for job plans.
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10 – What Is Maintenance Planning & Scheduling?

What is Maintenance Planning & Scheduling?

This episode of the weekly podcast covers all the aspects of maintenance planning and scheduling.

Planning is one of the most time-consuming yet important activity if an organization needs anything done efficiently and effectively.

Any strategy or procedure needs planning and scheduling if it were to be implemented successfully.

A well-planned maintenance strategy not only ensures a good outcome but saves a lot of money and time.

Every industry uses this approach when delivering ahead of the deadlines can result in catastrophic results.

Now, this is one of the initial stages and any organization needs human and physical resources to accomplish these planned goals.

Planning definitely takes time but in the long run, you can manage to do more work in the given time which is the manifestation of the Parkinson’s Law.

It also helps in solving problems and avoid failures, because you can find out that what went wrong and how are you going to fix it as it is a step by step process.
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09 – The 4 Pitfalls of OEM Recommendations

The 4 Pitfalls of OEM Recommendations

This episode of the weekly podcast covers the 4 Pitfalls of OEM Recommendations.

The original equipment manufacturers provide a manual in which all the general instructions are provided in the form of an operating manual.

These can be helpful when someone is using the equipment for the first time but when the same apparatus has to be used in reputed organizations with a set-up of their own, this manual is not enough.

It is developed keeping in mind the general behavior of instruments and common environmental condition of workshops and laboratories.

Most of the times, manufacturers put together these recommendations considering the worst that can go wrong to cover their warranty policies.

That is why the organizations cannot rely only on this operating manual.
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08 – Using Review RCM to Improve Plant Performance

Using Review RCM to Improve Plant Performance

Review RCM is a streamlined approach to improving plant performance.

It allows organizations to quickly address ineffective PM programs.  How does it achieve this?

By using the operating environment, failure patterns, and P-F interval, we can answer three basic questions:

  1. Will replacement of part on a known interval or usage reduce the probability of failure?
  2. Can we see it in the process of failure with sufficient time to respond?
  3. Is the impact of the failure high enough to warrant the cost of a PM strategy?

These three elements will help us to determine the type of PM strategy that is value-added.
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06 – What is a FMEA and How Can It Help?

What is an FMEA and How Can It Help?

Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a step-by-step approach for identifying all possible failures in a design, a manufacturing or assembly process.

“Failure modes” means the ways, or modes, in which something might fail.

Failures are any errors or defects, especially ones that affect the customer and can be potential or actual.  They typically include the component, the damage or problem with it and the cause of it

“Effects analysis” refers to studying the consequences of those failures.
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05 – What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?

What is Reliability Centered Maintenance?

Does the age of equipment increase the probability of failure?

That was the conventional wisdom until Nowlan & Heap discovered that components have six different types of failure patterns:

  • Bathtub – 4%
  • Wear Out – 2%
  • Fatigue Related – 5%
  • Rapid Increase to Random – 7%
  • Random Level of Failure – 14%
  • Infant mortality – 68%

This means only 11% of failures are age related… 89% are not age related – so why do PM Programs still rely on time-based maintenance (Replacements, Overhauls) they only address 11% of failures.
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03 – Understanding the Various Maintenance Strategies

Understanding the Various Maintenance Strategies

There are 3 primary types of maintenance strategies utilized:

  • Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)
  • Time-Based Maintenance (TBM)
  • Run to Fail (RTF)

The strategy utilized depends on heavily upon the nature of the failure.

Meaning does it wear out with age or is a random failure independent of time?  Condition based maintenance is acceptable for the random failures, while Time based maintenance works for wearing out type failures.

Lastly, Run to Failure is acceptable when there are no significant consequences in the event of a failure.
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02 – Using Criticality to Determine Your Maintenance Strategy

Using Criticality to Determine Your Maintenance Strategy

There are many different methodologies used to determine what maintenance should be done.

Once you include the variants, the number of methodologies can become overwhelming.   By the end of the podcast, you should have an overview of each methodology and when to use them.
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01 – What is Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Management?

What is Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Management?

When you think of maintenance, what do you think of?
This episode will dissect the difference between Maintenance, Reliability, and Asset Management.

By understanding the difference between Maintenance, Reliability and its relation to Asset Management, you can change and guide the perception of Maintenance and the value it brings to the organization.
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00 Welcome to the Rooted In Reliability Podcast

Welcome to the Rooted In Reliability Podcast: Your Plant Performance Podcast

This podcast is for the maintenance professional who has limited time to research the information they need.

The Rooted In Reliability Podcast is designed to do the research for you, and you can learn as you commute to work.
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