Balancing Reliability Into Your Organization
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Philip and Fred discussing the difference between doing tasks and using the results to make decisions.
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SOR 612 Balancing Reliability Into Your Organization
241 – The Role of the EAM in Improving Reliability with Steve Richmond
The Role of the EAM in Improving Reliability with Steve Richmond
It’s our pleasure to welcome Steve Richmond, the founder, and CEO of Projetech, a company providing IBM Maximo as a service. He has a degree in mechanical engineering and is also on the Forbes Technology Council. Projetech started by building automation systems, energy management, among others. It’s currently involved in providing Enterprise Asset Management as a service, with Steve’s experience in CMMS and EAM systems spanning about 30 years.
In this episode, we will be discussing:
- What is Maximo
- How does an EAM help with improving reliability
- How do you ensure the data collected is accurate within the CMMS
- What mistakes do organizations make when they’re trying to use EAMs to improve reliability
…and so much more!
SOR 583 Time Discussing Reliability
Time Discussing Reliability
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Chris and Fred discuss the idea of timing how long you spend talking about ‘reliability engineering.’ And by this, we mean conversation where you (1) proactively talking about preventing failures before they occur, and (2) in a way where something gets done about it (improving something)? Let’s say someone timed how much time your organization spent on this sort of conversation – would you be proud of the number you get?
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220-How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson
How to Sell Reliability with George Williams and Joe Anderson
Joe Anderson and George Williams started Reliability X. Joe Anderson is the COO and George is the CEO. Reliability X is a consulting organization that offers the implementation of holistic reliability for manufacturing sites. They also offer coaching, mentoring and teaching in a variety of mechanisms. They have partnered with the University of Wisconsin. Both of them have a vast amount of experiencing totaling 55 years. Here, they share with us some of their nuggets.
In this episode:
- What is Reliability
- Why should we sell Reliability yet it is the right thing to do
- How do you sell to The Upper Management
- How do you sell to the Plant Floor
… and so much more!
SOR 561 Reliability Informed Decision Making
Reliability Informed Decision Making
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Chris and Fred discuss the typical decisions that are informed by reliability. It might be easier to list what decisions are not informed by reliability engineering. We came up with a list of 13 … and that is only because we ran out of time. What decisions you think are influenced by reliability engineering? Listen to this podcast to learn more.
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210-Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry
Inherent Availability and Reliability with Greg Perry
We’re privileged to have the Capacity Assurance Consultant for Fluke Reliability Solutions, Greg Perry. He has two decades worth of experience in the industry. So he will be talking about what availability and reliability are.
We will tackle:
- What are availability and reliability
- What are the inherent availability and inherent reliability
- Do companies confuse inherent versus the actual values
- And much more!
SOR 548 Leaders, Champions, and Managers
Leaders, Champions, and Managers
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Chris and Fred discuss what a leader, champion and manager are. Many textbooks, guidebooks and so-called ‘domain experts’ tell us what (for example) a ‘reliability leader’ is. In some cases the ‘reliability leader’ is someone who has little influence, and is more of an ad hoc ‘doer.’ Not a leader. Why is this? Listen to this podcast to hear more about this?
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SOR 540 History of Reliability Part 2
History of Reliability Part 2
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Chris and Carl continue the discussion on the history of reliability engineering. The discussion that started with Chris and Adam (you can click here to listen to it). In the short time they had to talk about it, they came up with 6 reliability engineering epochs. Now Carl is going to see if there is anything to add – and importantly – anything to learn.
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SOR 515 Reliability Security Blankets
SOR 515 Reliability Security Blankets
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Chris discusses ‘reliability security blankets.’ You know what security blankets are – the things that parents offer young children to make them feel safe and comfortable. Not because these blankets actually offer warmth, comfort or safety – but rather because the children associate feelings of warmth and safety with that object because it is ‘always there’ when they are at home or go to be. A reliability security blanket does the same thing – it calms the leaders, managers, bosses, and directors of an organization. But – that is it! There is no reliability to be found. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast!
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SOR 500 How Speaking of Reliability Got Started
SOR 500 How Speaking of Reliability Got Started
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Fred discusses the origin of Speaking of Reliability plus an introduction to SOR Shorts.
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SOR 475 Cat vs Dog Reliability
Cat vs Dog Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing the question of which common pet has more reliable behavior and how this relates to quality versus reliability
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SOR 474 Preventing a Public Reliability Problem
Preventing a Public Reliability Problem
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Kirk and Fred discussing how to prevent a field problem from becoming a widely disseminated through the media
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SOR 471 Questions to Ask about Data Analysis
Questions to Ask about Data Analysis
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Chris and Fred discuss data analysis … specifically the first question we ask before we help someone with their data analysis project. Chris always asks – what is the decision that this data analysis will support? And Fred always asks – where did this data come from? The reason these questions are important is that you need to know what information you need before you construct an analysis to get that information. And you need to be confident in the results. A single data set can potentially create multiple information sets. And this depends on how you construct the analysis. Which based on the decision. Listen to this podcast if you would like to learn more.
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SOR 470 Reliability Leadership and Taking Charge
Reliability Leadership and Taking Charge
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Chris and Fred discuss reliability leadership. What is reliability leadership? Writing a book? Putting together a few slides? The first thing to know is that there is a difference between a reliability manager and a reliability leader. A reliability manager will tend to oversee practices and processes that others have identified or put together. Reliability leaders come up with the rationale, the motivation, the linking with business outcomes and everything else that creates or sustains organizational change. You can have the ‘best’ reliability engineers – but without reliability leadership, you won’t make reliable products. Want to learn more? Listen to this podcast.
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SOR 468 When Are You Done Investing in Reliability
When Are You Done Investing in Reliability
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Kirk and Fred discussing testing and monitoring the development of reliability and sustaining reliability and when to stop product improvement using HALT methods.
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