283 – Habit #4: Decide with Data with Peter Horsburgh

Habit #4: Decide with Data with Peter Horsburgh

It’s my pleasure to welcome back Peter Horsburgh. He is the author of the ‘Five Habits of Extraordinary Reliability Engineers.’ He has a long history within reliability engineering. He essentially started in manufacturing, then moved to mining, then to power generation, and to aluminum smelting.

In this episode we covered:

Now we’re here to discuss habit number four; decide with data. So, what does this mean to you?
You mentioned data-driven debate. What is it?
In the book, you said problem solving should follow a framework. You mentioned problem-cause-solution-value framework. Can you elaborate a bit on that?

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186-Third Habit with Peter Horsburgh

Third Habit with Peter Horsburgh

If your machines aren’t running smooth, clean, cool, and dry, there’s no way you will ever be able to get its lifetime out of it. When you are facing such situation where one of these indicators isn’t being met by your machine, it’s time for a change. To make a change in the way you treat your assets, you need to start asking the questions. If you don’t know or understand something, ask someone who can help you make sense of things. If you don’t have the tools for solving a problem, start getting the support of management to invest in the equipment.

In this episode, we covered:

What is the Third Habit?
How can you get vital support from the management?
Why do you need to think out of the box?

And much more!

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166-2nd Habit with Peter Horsburgh

2nd Habit with Peter Horsburgh

Whenever there’s a problem in the plant, it always comes to finding the root cause if you are looking to solve it and stop it from reappearing later on. To successfully do that, you need to have what’s going on with your plant. You should have the complete understanding of the processes and the events that might have led to that issue in the first place. It isn’t always a single root causes that results into a failure. It can be a number of small things that contribute to that problem and result in a failure. So, there can be multiple causes for a single problem.

In this episode, we covered:

What is Root Cause Analysis?
Learn about 5Y!
How can you apply RCA effectively?
And much more!

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